Punk + R&B

What do you get when you put together Al Green with The Smiths and X?
Joan Wasser thinks she has the answer. Or rather, she thinks her new solo project,
Joan As Police Woman, IS the answer.
With her debut Real Life Joan enters as a unique voice, in sound and songcraft.
Most recently playing violin in Rufus Wainright's backing section, Joan has also been attached to rock bands Dambuiders and Black Beetle.
Does Punk + R&B = Joan As Police Woman? Take a listen and you decide.

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me

There are only two movies I stop whatever I am doing or have planned and just watch them if I find them clicking through the cable. Tommy is such a great movie! Highly under rated. I mean everyone talks about the beans and Elton John's boots but the best parts are in the front end of the movie at Uncle Ernie's Holiday Camp! The Camp with A Difference!

And you really can’t beat the simplistic social commentary and the “revolutionary” idea of a Rock Opera!

I think I saw Tommy in the theater like 15 times...I'm serious about that number! I was in the 8th grade when it came out and it's been great to watch Eric Clapton, Roger Daltry, Tina Turner and the fabulous Ann Margaret frozen in time all these years! I was fiddling about on Youtube and found the original trailer. I love the old style, pre "In A World Gone Mad," announcing style. So semi civilized British! And I used to be a big Jersey Shore Pinball player too! I've played that Kicking Bronco machine in the clip.

Oh the other movie I stop my day to watch? Animal House--I was ATO at AU in the 80s.

Marrrrrrvelous Mouse

Hey, did you hear the new Modest Mouse track with Johnny Marr yet? WOW! When Johnny guested on the Talking Head's NAKED ("Nothing But Flowers"), I thought the combination of an eccentric vocalist like David Byrne and Johnny's sharp, world beat, melodic, guitar from another planet was a perfect marriage. Of course, just like his pairing with another wonderfully bizarre voice (Morrissey), his stint as a Talking Head was temporary....But, now, it seems the gig is permanent with Isaac Brock and company. Isaac voice cuts a dynamic, high trebled and original swath through indie rock's path...check out the strings, the rhythm guitar and the multi-layered leads on the new single DASHBOARD- thanks to a big assist from, perhaps, the most underrated guitarist of his generation...Johnny Maar.

The Man Behind The Music

When Preparing for New Music Tuesday this week I realized that I KNEW Grant-Lee Phillips!
OK, not personally, but as a fan of Gilmour Girls and someone who knows ALL the characters and their excentricities. Phillips played the Town Troubadour for 6 seasons on the quirky Dram-edy.
His new album Strangelet is on the way at the End of February, but here is Grant-Lee playing with a Gilmour Girls montage