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(I'll Be There) by Your SidePriscilla Ahn, A Good Day, Blue Note/EMI [6/10/08]Are you sleeping, can you hear meDo you know if I am by your sideDoes it matter if you hear meWhen the morning comes I'll be there by your side.-- Harry Nilsson, "Are You Sleeping" (1971)The presence of Bernville, PA-born, Los Angeles, CA-based singer/songwriter Priscilla Ahn on Blue Note makes perfect sense. While she isn't cut from the same cloth as label superstar Norah Jones—jazz plays no obvious role in her repertoire—she works, to keep the seamstress analogy going, with comparable fabric (like, say, the botanical prints of Britain's Liberty mills).A Good Day may be a s
March into the MuckOutkast's André 3000 and Big BoiThe Dreamscapes Proj-ect, Pity in a Heartbeat, Figmental Records [5/6/08]It's beyond me why anyband would want to sound like an acoustic version of Live, but there you go. The thing is, Washington DC's Keith Center isn't as accomplished a singer as Ed Kowalczyk, but he projects just as much "passion" and "intensity." The quotation marks are be-cause he delivers his lyrics like a musical theater performer.That doesn't mean he isn't sincere, but there's a difference betweenbeing in touch with your emotions, and knowing how to expressthem most effectively. What may have begun as heartfelt getsburied bene
Reelin' in the Years: Part TwoClick here for part oneI took the following pictures at several different First Fridays, circa 2004-2006. The location: Wallingford's Blue Star Café. FFis a long-running monthly opportunity for Seattle film writers and friends to eat, drink, gossip, kvetch, commiserate, and exchange and/or purge DVDs, CDs, and printed materials. Oh yeah, and to drink. Note that my weapon of choice is a disposable black and white camera, so the photo quality is a little...interesting.Above: Sean Axmaker and Mark Rahner looking shady.Sean telling me to stop drinking cider...or something. I haveno idea, incidentally, who took this pic. Whoev
The Real Dirt (on the Dirtbombs)An excerpt from the bestMick Collins article ever:I had this idea that I'd take a bunch of songs by well-known R&B performers and do rock versions of them for the fourth Dirtbombs album," Collins says. "But when Greg Cart-wright [of the Oblivions, Compulsive Gamblers and current-ly, Reigning Sound] played me Phil Lynott's "Ode to a Black Man" [from the late Thin Lizzy frontman's solo album, So-lo in Soho], I said, 'I have to record this song before some-body else beats me to it!' And in order to record that song, I had to do the entire rest of the album around it. So Ultraglidein Black came second, when it was suppo
A Fistful of Film(and Music) ReviewsThese are the reviews and assignments I'm working on this month.Amazon DVDs: The Air I Breathe (introspective thriller with Forest Whitaker and Brendan Fraser), Five Days [two-disc set] (British miniseries with Janet McTeer), My Boy Jack (with Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe as Rudyard Kipling's son), The Color of Freedom (Mandela docudrama with Dennis Haysbert), and Un-stable Fables - 3 Pigs and a Baby (animation from Henson Co.).Amazon Theatricals: Run Fat Boy Run (with Simon Pegg), Snow Angels (fourth feature from George Washington's David Gordon Green), Shelter, Son of Rambow (from SIFF '07), and Standard Operat
(Dawning of a) New EraDub Pistols, Speakers and Tweeters, Defend Music Inc. [5/6/08] In theory, I'm all over this album. Reality is another story. It's not that I dislike the music; it's that the concept is more compelling than the creation.Take Lily Allen, for example. The petite potty-mouth created something new and exciting out of her love for Blondie and the Specials—to say nothing of X-Ray Spex and Wreckless Eric.The third full-length from these fellow Londoners features acover of Blondie's "Rapture," vocals from Terry Hall of the Specials, and a more up-to-the-minute approach than its predecessors (thanks to the hiphop and techno touches).But go
 
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