James Brown – Killin it in Zaire 1974
If you want to know exactly where the term “killin it” came from, I do believe that I have found the origin. Mr. Star Time straight up murders it! 1. Sick Jumpsuit? Check 2. Mustache? Check 3. Bell Bottoms? Check … Continue reading →
The Rolling Stones – You Gotta Move
pouring through the websites, tapping the keys to the keyboard and I can’t find what I am looking for, all the music in the world at my fingertips but nothing to inspire, my back is twitching and my eyes are … Continue reading →
White Denim – Bess Street
Frenetic energy coming from you to me, my thoughts wrestle with what to write next, perplexed, all of the excitement bottle up and ready, ready for what, engrossed in the spree of notes, and bangs and clangs and driving guitar … Continue reading →
Jimi Hendrix – Rainy Day Dream Away – Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Drip drip the drain pipes click as the cat’s wander to catch a lick and the earth moves a little slower and I react a little slower and the gray stacks on top of the smoke and the silver twists … Continue reading →
Led Zeppelin – Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Waking up to a thick layer of persisting gray skies with the life of a wax museum and the expanse of God’s vision, my thoughts turned to Led Zeppelin’s Led Zepellin III. As much of the album was conceived and … Continue reading →
Hipster Holiday Cheer and The Never Ending Beginning Hometapes
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Egg nog and a shot of grandpas wild turkey? Sounds like you are off to a nice start, but if you are looking to add a little street cred to your holiday party and … Continue reading →
Relax with Das Rascist
As you stand at Avenue G at Greenpoint the buckle of train tracks come to a Manhattan rattle, a squeal, and an exhausted tired hiss, doors crack pop open and a mammoth grey elephant ducks her head and wiggles out … Continue reading →
Kurt Vile – The Creature
As cloudy dark skies curl around the last days of November and the books come off the shelves and you dig up ma’s recipe for chili, feeling like Halloween was yesterday and Thanksgiving was a deep breath and Christmas will … Continue reading →
Keeping it Fresh with the slayshTank Music Channel From Hype Machine
Around the Tank we truly believe that part of what gives us soul is music, and in music we find…
Neil Young – Harvest Moon
On a day when the weather felt like there was no weather, like the perfect room, or Steve McQueen’s still water effortlessness flowing through a sea of people or a 1971 Mick Jagger scarf, Neil creates an effortless flow of … Continue reading →
Getting Fresh With Little Red – Rock It
With an early beat that drops like Spoon’s I Turn My Camera On and carries on through the track with the same pop and confidence, a tickle of the keys that reminds us all that this whole thing is supposed … Continue reading →
Bill Withers – Lovely Day
When you wake up on a Sunday morning with a beautiful woman by your side, wind through an Austin Sunday morning, enjoy brunch with those pretty blue eyes and a warm cup of joe, meander through the hills with your … Continue reading →
Introducing The Peach Kings – Thieves and Kings
With a smoky coal train voice, cracklin like dusty vinyl, Paige Wood is the blonde version of Alison Mosshart, without all the wrecked black leather, but all of the sensual rolling around on stage making love to a Marshall stack … Continue reading →
Reptar – Stuck In My ID
If you have ever wound around and ducked through some neighborhood corners and whizzed past mail boxes looking for the street address that x marks the spot and rub the curb and unbuckle and wonder if it is the right … Continue reading →
Donny Hathaway – Jealous Guy
As Monday winds down, and the city lights go up, and the window lights go down, the kids to bed, the calm comes over the city, comes over the living room, comes over your mind and body, and your bare … Continue reading →
In Honor of Bill Graham: Ringing in the New Year from 1979 with the Grateful Dead
Remembering the great Bill Graham today. Hear Bill ring in the new year followed by the Grateful Dead’s first notes…
The Owsley Brothers – Pure Lust
The simple bending guitar squeal and reduced distant vocals curl through the communion of the midnight saint between candles and spray paint under the writhing sweating living and the medicated dead, those in heaven, those in hell, the difference no … Continue reading →
The Antlers – Burst Apart
Have you ever turned a doorknob ever so slowly that you see how long you can make the door hinges creak and lose yourself in the slow notch after notch anticipating the darkness, relishing the excitement, holding on to the … Continue reading →
M83 – Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming
Driving through the highway beaches, cutting past the expanse of concrete stacked on top of concrete over dirt and sand that will soon be concrete over staggered bricks that question when they will become concrete, Major Tom, silent, contemplative, excited, … Continue reading →
Wilco – The Whole Love/ A Circus Mind Translation
September was one of those months. Transition from summer to fall. Transition of the angle of the sun to the earth from the earth to my eyes from my eyes to my mind. Transition from silence back to the written … Continue reading →
