Janelle Monae’s “Tightrope”
The word in">http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=88273&an=0… our forum is that 90 percent of today’s popular music is crap. Need a little proof that real talent still exists in the world of pop music? Check out Janelle Monae’s performance on last night’s Letterman show.
Javelin: “By Hook or By Crook”
In collaboration with the clever people at Buzz Media, creative electronic duo, Javelin (Tom van Buskirk and George Langford), roamed the streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn, with samplers and mics in hand, and created an interesting new track called “By Hook or By Crook.”
Jay Reatard
May">http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/01/13/jay-reatard/">May 1, 1980–January 13, 2010
Jazz on the Tube
For just a few days now I’ve been receiving mysterious e-mails from “Jazz on the Tube.” At first I wondered if they were spam, and I was afraid to click on the links inside. But they all seemed harmless enough: A few kind and thoughtful words, a passion for jazz, a hand held out in friendship, a smile. So I clicked the link and was taken to a simple page with a narrow, white field against a black border and a YouTube video at the center.
Jenny Hval at the Mercury Lounge
Last night, AudioStream.com's Michael Lavorgna and I attended Jenny Hval's performance at the Mercury Lounge on Houston Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Because we first made stops to: browse LPs and chat with Daniel at Other Music, enjoy cask-conditioned ales at dba, and devour some incredibly delicious pies at Rizzo's, we were primed for a memorable evening of music.
Jenny Hval did not disappoint.
Jenny Hval covers Paul Simon's "The Cool, Cool River," tours North America
Photo by Karl Edwin Scullin.
Released back in May, Jenny Hval's Innocence is Kinky, endures as one of my favorite records of 2013. I've played it countless times, and, in a few days, when Hval takes the stage at NYC's Mercury Lounge, I'll finally have the chance to see and hear the songs performed live.Jersey City Love Songs
On the corner of Monmouth and Third, in the parking lot of the Genesis Educational Center, where">http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=317+Third+Street,+Jersey+City,+… the blood lines erase the color lines, a drummer needs practice. I wasn't expecting this. It might interfere with our listening session. The bad beats are hopping into my third floor window and making themselves comfortable, crowding the sweet spot. The singer, it seems, needs practice, too. And is that a preacher hollering the gospel, or a drunk abusing his wife? Around here, one can never be certain. Perhaps it's both...
Jersey City Record Riot
We were bummed out when we heard that Steve Gritzan was closing down his wonderful and dusty record shop, Iris">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/iris_records_closes/">Iris Records, in downtown Jersey City, but heartened in knowing that he’d continue to sell albums at street fairs and at his outstanding Brooklyn Record Riot conventions.
jet planes shatter silence
above paradise road,
but only just above,
but only just above,
JGH and JGH
"Where did you say this photo was taken, JA?"