“Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.” — Jay-Z
Seriously, has anyone done more good for the New York Yankees in recent years than Jay-Z? I guess A Rod or Jeter or Mariano perhaps, but Jay has never been shy about it.
I’m glad Jay-Z has finally gotten on board and [...]

Here are links to two different promotional audio slideshows I made for NPR Music’s upcoming 50 Great Voices series. They are my two first multimedia projects to go live on NPR.org so they’re a tad rough (though the second one is substantially better than the first effort).
Functionally, these two videos were intended to let [...]

From time to time I like to tune in to the telly to see what bands are making the rounds on the late night talk show circuit…
We had two notable back to back talk show appearances this week:
On Monday night, Grizzly Bear performed indie hit “Two Weeks” from Veckatimest on “The Tonight Show With Conan [...]

Over the last year or so Medeski Martin & Wood have been releasing their Radiolarians trilogy of records. The series captured the jazz-funk trio in a creative period in which they would write music, tour behind it and then record (write>tour>record) instead of the more typical cycle of writing, recording and then touring (write>record>tour).
As [...]

Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM from Charlotte Gainsbourg on Vimeo.
Jeez, as if Beck needed another project on his plate. Some details have started to surface regarding a new Charlotte Gainsbourg album titled IRM (French for MRI), a project she collaborated with Beck. Beck wrote all the music, co-wrote the lyrics, produced and mixed the record which [...]

So I had the noble task of hearing the new album from The Flaming Lips, Embryonic, about a month ahead of time and then getting to write a short entry about it for NPR Music.
We are featuring the album on the website, in its entirety for the next few days, so take a listen [...]