Monthly Archives: August 2009

Dr. Dog = Everything Right About Music

Watch the full concert
If you haven’t already checked these guys out, like for instance at their amazingĀ free show at Prospect Park in Brooklyn this summer, watch this video. I think it does a great job of capturing the energy of their live show. Comparisons to The Band and The Beatles get thrown around a lot, [...]

The Story Behind the Music

My band Case Quarter was in the studio this weekend. I managed to shoot some video. You’re welcome.

The Antlers – Hospice

The Antlers’ Hospice is a beautiful, morbid meditation on loss, guilt, and responsibility. Antlers frontman Peter Silberman’s rich falsetto evokes Jeff Buckley at his most beautiful, yet never slides into ostentatious as Buckley’s could. The pacing of the album and frequent revisting of melodic motifs brings to mind Neutral Milk Hotel’s peerless In an Aeroplane [...]

Nix the Six!

While I would never wish to nixx Nikki Sixx, ie6 is a major pain in the ass for web developers everywhere. While we have all groused about it for years most of us have had to bow to the pressure to create secondary stylesheets and/or use the “underscore hack“, our only release valve being the [...]