The Modern Log

Sloan shows be crazy.
They play again in the tri-state area this week – Friday night at the Bell House in Brooklyn. You should be there, for real.

I finally bought the Sloan EP Hit & Run but I haven’t listened yet. No idea why I’m putting it off, surely it’s very great, but I better get cracking. Sloan is playing on Monday at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, and there will I be.
Another time when I saw Sloan at Maxwell’s (uhh, 10 years ago), [...]

Tonight, Dollie is at “Equus” and I am home sick, so I am spending some quality time with my TV. The DVR, which has been more than 90 percent full for weeks now, has been feeling neglected. What I am doing right now is attending to “Life.” I love it. It’s my favorite. And I [...]

On Thursday night, I saw R.E.M. And while I have to say I was oddly disappointed to not hear “Underneath the Bunker” (have they ever played this live? My guess is “no”), it was a wonderful show. I can’t imagine a better first time. Sloan was playing the same night, at the same time, at [...]

Sloan’s new album, Parallel Play, came out yesterday. My pre-ordered copy is somewhere in the mail, but Yep Roc is nice and lets you download it as well as having a hard copy.
This morning, after spilling my coffee on my light blueish green shirt (”I’d call that seafoam,” said a co-worker who shouldn’t say things [...]