Mull Historical Society, “Animal Cannabus” get it on Loss (2001) The real curse of being old is knowing that you’re destined to be old-fashioned. As the idiot Abe Simpson once said, “I used to be with it. Then they changed what it was. Now what’s it seems scary and weird to me.” Not exactly the [...]

Stevie Jackson, “Just, Just So To The Point” get it on (I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson (2011) Pity poor Stevie Jackson. Sure he lives the life of a globe-trotting rock star, but he’s always been in the shadow of Belle & Sebastian’s primary songwriter Stuart Murdoch, one of the best and most beloved songwriters [...]

Jonny, “I Want To Be Around You” find it on Jonny When news spread late last year that Norman Blake and Euros Child were consummating their musical friendship by collaborating on a full-length album it was cause for much celebration. One could perhaps already detect the influence of Child’s late Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci on Blake’s [...]

There’s a line in the title track of Belle and Sebastian’s new record that’s a dead giveaway of the album: “Write about love, it can be in any form. Hand it to me in the morning.” This album comes off like an assignment. It’s not drudgery math homework but more of an creative writing essay: [...]

My feelings about Belle & Sebastian circa 1997 could pretty accurately be described as obsession, bordering on sickness. I once yelled at Stuart Murdoch and Isobel Campbell out a car window in Athens, Georgia. True story! ANYway, one of the things that I loved about them in the late 90′s was the quality of their [...]

Simple Minds is not an obscure band. Nobody’s forgotten “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” and anyone with even a passing interest in 80′s hits will remember at least a couple songs off of their arena-anthem classic Once Upon A Time. They did huge songs as well as U2. They just didn’t follow up on it [...]