Tonight I was watching last night’s Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien and in a joke about NASA accidentally taping over the original tape of the moonlanding, they showed a brief clip of this beauty:
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I don’t know what else I can say about this. It’s amazing. The end.

…Now I kinda like it. This is one of my favorite quotes from the movie High Fidelity, still one of my favorite movies. Obviously, these are the words of record store owner Rob Gordon (played by John Cusack) as he admits to his ultra-hip music snob friends that he might actually be enjoying Peter [...]

I had a few more things I’ve written go up in the last week to shamelessly promote. Here’s a three bulleted rundown:
On Monday, All Songs Considered asked the question ‘Do Labels Matter?‘ While they discussed that in their show and blog, I helped spotlight two jazz labels that DO still matter for A Blog [...]

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*I’m fudging a little with my original concept of ‘Best Song’ I’ve heard all day, because really, this video outweighs the song for me. But what the hell…
I came across this great new video for Jenny Lewis’ song “See Fernando” from last year’s album Acid Tongue. Never really [...]

Here’s a new Song of the Day essay: This time looking at John Vanderslice’s new album, Romanian Names.
To read the full review and hear the song click here!

Again, I have a few new things go up this week on NPR:
For NPR’s jazz blog, A Blog Supreme, I wrote a quick blurb about Kansas City artist and musician Mark Southerland, and his incredibly weird saxophone creations.
I also wrote a remembrance of jazz bass legend Ray Brown, who died July 2nd 2002, seven years [...]