February 2012 Music

Sorry if this is super Jamaican-heavy but I'm half done wading through the complete Studio One singles:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

Arthur King - Fear

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - East 1999

The Brentford All-Stars - Blue Moon

The Darling Dears - And I Love You

Devon & the Soul Vendors - Get Ready Version

Freddie & Fritzy - Do Good
It's long since proven that kids singing reggae is irresistible

The Gladiators - Big Boo Boo Dey // Fling It Gimmie

The Hood Internet - When the Night Knows (Whitney Houston x Chromeo)

J-Dow - So Easy f. Busta Rhymes

Ken Parker - Before and After

Lloyd Williams - For Your Love

Nancy Wilson - Guess Who I Saw Today

The O'My's - Simply Beautiful

Rev. Robert Wilkins - The Prodigal Son
Covered but not credited by the Stones

Richard Ace & the Sound Dimensions - Can't Get Enough

Roberta Flack - Ballad of the Sad Young Men

SBTRKT - Hold On (Sisi BakBak Remix)
Word on the street is Sisi BakBak may also go by the name Thom Yorke

Schlachthofbronx - Slowine

Wayne Shorter - Face of the Deep

Additionally:

RIP Don Cornelius:


A cut guitar solo from Here Comes the Sun:


Joan Baez on Bob Dylan's writing process:

It reminds me of James Joyce talking about Ulysses: "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

A video compilation of fake bands:


Sun-Ra's Space Is The Place is now on YouTube:


?uestlove, Q-Tip, DJ Premier, and Pete Rock's hour long sets on Hot 97's Black Fist Fridays.

And this:

Ruth McKenney — My Sister Eileen

I read this collection of stories by New Yorker writer Ruth McKenney because it included one about the author's experience living with her eponymous sister in the basement of my new home in the Village. My landlord is the daughter of her landlord in the 1930s. Leonard Bernstein later adapted the book into the musical Wonderful Town whose premiere Eileen died on the way to (along with her husband Nathanael West) in a car crash.

Berenice Abbott, "Gay Street, #14-16 Manhattan" 1937

MoMA Highlights 2/23/12

Diego Rivera
Indian Warrior
Water based paint on plaster fresco mounted on cement
1931

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mars, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, juin, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mars, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, avril, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mai, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mai, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925





Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mai, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, juin, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

The Frick Collection Highlights 2/23/12

Jean-Antoine Houdon
The Dead Thrush (La grive morte)
marble relief
1782


Lazzaro Bastiani
Adoration of the Magi
tempera on poplar panel
c. 1470–79

John Constable
Cloud Study
oil on paper, laid down on board
c. 1822

John Constable
Cloud Study
oil on paper, laid down on board
c. 1822

Teapot
Meissen porcelain
c. 1729–31

Henry Fuseli
Fallen Horseman Attacked by a Monstrous Serpent
Pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk
c. 1800

Champion Sound

How does one win $1000 at a Karaoke contest? I'm glad you asked:

Baby J and Rhye


Lizzie and Sarah

Julia Davis of Nighty Night and Jessica Hynes of Spaced team up for a show that only made one episode before the BBC lost its nerve:



As Simon Pegg twitted: "Seems amazing that the BBC commission a pilot from two of the funniest women in the UK then air it at 11.45pm. Jeez beeb, GROW A PAIR!!"

January 2012 Music

Adrian Younge - 1969 Organ // Turn Down the Sound
An older and newer song by the man behind the score of Black Dynamite.

Beach Boys - Our Prayer [Dialog]
Recording of Brian Wilson teaching the other Beach Boys how his new "rock church music" is to be sung.

Chuck Inglish - Together
From one half of the Cool Kids' new beat tape.

The Four Mints - Endlessly

Ike Turner - She Made My Blood Run Cold

Jefferson Handkerchief - I'm Allergic to Flowers

Louis Prima - Fever // Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)

Quantic & Alice Russell featuring the Combo Bárbaro Band - Look Around The Corner

Soki Ohale's Uzzi - Bisi's Beat

Terry Randall - S.O.S. [Save Our Strip]

Additionally:

Did you know the then Cassius Clay put out a 45 in 1964?


I Am The Greatest


Stand By Me