PopTodd

Me becoming a rock star. The Cubs winning the World Series (to borrow a theme from uncool) Keith Richards dying in the next week.

I heard the news in the car on my way in to work this morning and I screamed, "WHAT?!" out loud and just about swerved off the road.

If Lemmy was a punch in the gut, this is a full-on disembowelment.

100% yes! That is right up there in the top 10. For sure.

It's a toss-up between that and The Beatles - "Rain"

Yes.

Dogbowl - Zone of Blue After more than a decade without a peep, a very, very welcome return by one of my most-beloved weirdo artists of the 1990s.http://active-listener.blogspot.co.nz/2016/01/dogbowl-zone-of-blue.html

And I was just reminded: Although after only one album and a couple of singles (their second full album comes out in April), it's still too early to completely commit, but if Fumaça Preta keeps it up, I will absolutely be as devoted to them as to the other artists that I named in the first post of this thread.

Was talking about it with a friend at lunch, so it got me wanting to hear this for the first time in a long time. A Soundcloud playlist that I compiled of other people's versions of songs that I wrote. Guess I need an ego boost today. https://soundcloud.com/poptodd/sets/todd-covered

Okay, so this is a Wilco board, so I know that we're gonna get a lot of folks saying "Wilco" in here, but other than them... These are the bands who may be in a rut or past their peak or whatever, but something about them compels you to get their newest album because, even if they ARE in a rut or past their peak, somehow their albums are always satisfying to you. And it always makes you happy to hear something new from them. Me: Martin Newell/Cleaners From Venus He's been putting out basically the same record for the last 20 years or so; longer if you don't count the changes to his sound mad

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35241250?SThisFB I spent one of the most-stimulating and enlightening evenings of music thanks to this man! An "open rehearsal" of the Chicago Civic Orchestra (basically the CSO's minor league team), conducted by Boulez, playing a piece by Bartok. Now, I am not much of a fan of Bortok's, nor of much "modern" classical-type music in general, but Boulez put on a clinic, literally. He explained WHY he loved the piece that they were rehearsing/performing that night, and DEMONSTRATED why he loved it. While he was putting the orchestra through its paces,