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This is the home for writing, film, photos you can't find anywhere else, including my never-before-published novel "Let It Be," a fictional deconstruction of The Replacements' album of the same name.
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Song of the Week (opens the original)
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Talk about a voice hitting you in the gut. Lydia Loveless does that for me. Since first hearing her brilliant Somewhere Else back in 2014, I was in love. Even made a documentary about the recording of her next album, the stunning Real. Lydia is rock, she’s country, she’s punk, she’s folk, hell, I’d kill to hear her take on an album of jazz standards. Her voice can knock you on your ass one minute, then make you cry the next. When I got the email on Monday about her new upcoming EP, and the relea
(belated) Song of the Week (opens the original)
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So, so, so sorry for the two weeks of silence. I took Kristine, my wife, on a vacation to celebrate her 60th birthday. Savannah, a truly beautiful Southern city. (Photo dump soon.)So to make up for it, you’ll be getting two songs of the week today.First off, this beautiful noise-pop/shoegaze track from a band that was new to me until a few weeks ago. The album from start to finish is another gem in this crazy year of great music. Here is “Seek and Destroy” from the album Role Model Hermit from M
Song of the Week (opens the original)
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Yet another album that made me wonder what was going on in the universe this year. Where is all this great music coming from? Here we have after over 50 years an almost heir apparent to Patti Smith, and there is hardly a higher compliment that I can give. Angry, lilting, heartbreaking, noisy, every track on this gut-punch of an album has an urgency that by the end you’re almost wanting to hit repeat as much as you want to move onto the next brilliant song.Just listen…Here is “This is Our Life” f
Bob Stinson’s Fashion Sense (opens the original)
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If ever there was a rock star with style...it was Bob Stinson. Learn how he did it in my documentary Color Me Obsessed, a film about The Replacements.Streaming now on the Criterion Channel. Subscribe now#thereplacements #criterion #moviegram
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This is such a crazy year for music. I haven’t been head-over-heels in love with this many albums in I don’t know how long. And while the Olivia Rodrigo is still the clear album of the year, this one is scraping at her bootstraps for completely different reasons.I love love love the this debut album. From start to finish. It’s what an alt-country version of the X that made "Wild Gift” might sound like after overdosing on Archers of Loaf in one ear and Velvet Underground in the other. Two heartfe
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