Tag Archives: Pink Floyd

July 24, 2011

Hard rocking yet ethereal, short-lived Levitation touched Heaven

When you hear something perfect, you want it to last forever. It doesn’t work that way. The most beautiful things in life are ephemeral. Levitation was a perfect example. It was formed Terry Bickers, the emotionally fragile but brilliant guitarist … Continue reading →

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Filed under music, one you might've missed, progressive rock, psych, rock, Uncategorized, video

Tagged as Coterie, Guy Chadwick, House of Love, Levitation, Meanwhile Gardens, Need for Not, Pieces of Mary, Pink Floyd, Sacred Lover, Spiritualized, Terry Bickers

July 30, 2010

The death of the album?

A few years ago, my friend offered to download a song his teenage step-daughter liked. When he asked if she wanted the whole album, she said, “What do you mean?” That’s pretty telling. Not only are today’s young people not … Continue reading →

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Tagged as 2112, 45 rpm, albums, CD, Dark Side of the Moon, digital, downloading, Facebook, iTunes, Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin 4, music, Napster, Pandora, Pink Floyd, Rush, singles, youtube

June 30, 2010

Friends of Dean Martinez capture Southwest’s wide open spaces

I haven’t been out to West Texas in years, but I spent a lot of time there when I was younger. Enough time for its spirit to soak into my bones: wide open spaces, brutal heat and rugged beauty, isolation … Continue reading →

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Filed under indie, indie rock, music, postrock, psych, Uncategorized, video

Tagged as Andrew Gerfers, Arizona, Austin, Bill Elm, Calexico, desert, e-bow, FODM, Friends of Dean Martinez, Glen Campbell, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Jimmy Webb, John Convertino, Mike Semple, pathos, pedal steel, Pink Floyd, Robert Randolph, Roots Note, Salton Sea, Texas, Tucson, weltschmertz, West Texas, Wichita Lineman

June 9, 2010

Loving the Alien – Little Green Mixtape (or maybe not so little)

As a longtime science fiction buff, I have been very excited by recent news that there could be life on Saturn’s moon Titan. Of course, it’s a lot more likely that it will turn out to be a chemical process … Continue reading →

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Tagged as A Flock of Seagulls, A.R. Kane, Add N to X, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Astral Army, Atomic Mosquitos, Bela Fleck, Billy Bragg, Bjork, Blondie, Blue Oyster Cult, Bonzo Dog Band, Boyracer, Brownsville Station, Buchanan Brothers, Buddy Clinton, Busters, Butch Paulson, Byrds, Cabaret Voltaire, Cacogenic Systems, Carpenters, Cibo Matto, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Comsat Angels, Cramps, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dane Cook, David Bowie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Deep Purple, Devo, DJ Spooky, Dr Octagon, ESG, Feathers, Floyd Robinson, Herman Bernard, Husker Du, Jamiroquai, Japan, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Jesse Lee Turner, Jimi Hendrix, Jobriath, Joe Meek, Joe Satriani, Jonathan Richman, Jorge Ben, Judas Priest, Julian Cope, Kaleidoscope, Kansas, Kelly Family, Klaatu, Kool Keith, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Legendary Pink Dots, Leonard Nimoy, Little Shop of Horrors, Little Walter, Lustmord, Mars, Marty Quinn, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mellotones, Meteors, Misfits, Monster Magnet, Neil Young, Patti Smith, Perrey Kingsley, Pete Johnson, Pink Fairies, Pink Floyd, Placebo, Prodigy, Queen, Radiohead, Rezillos, Robert Gordon, Roky Erikson, Sam Space & the Cadettes, Scary Bitches, Seu Jorge, Sheb Wooley, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Smokey Wilson, Sonny Day, Space Lord, Spacehog, Spacemen 3, Split Enz, Stranglers, Styx, Teenagers from Outer Space, Telescopes, The Residents, Tom Petty, Tool, Towa Tei, Twinkeyz, UFO, Ventures, War of the Worlds, Webb Brothers, Wilco, Wildhearts, Wipers, Yellow Magic Orchestra

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Tag Archives: Pink Floyd

Hard rocking yet ethereal, short-lived Levitation touched Heaven

The death of the album?

Friends of Dean Martinez capture Southwest’s wide open spaces

Loving the Alien – Little Green Mixtape (or maybe not so little)

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