D.O.A. - Communication Breakdown YouTube video by Böbby H. Blänk

Happy 61st birthday to Chuck Biscuits! From his time in D.O.A., here's their cover of Led Zep's "Communication Breakdown."
#1001CoverSongs
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Working With Melvin Gibbs Is Like 'Playing With an Aurora' And other takeaways from the reporting of my new Times feature on the bassist's essential new book, 'How Black Music Took Over the World'

When I asked Melvin Gibbs's collaborators to describe him as a player and a thinker, they reached for poetic comparisons drawing from science, nature and myth open.substack.com/pub/darkforc...

It’s literally the one for me! Every time!

I assume the Bethesda city council has one agenda item each term: We HAVE to get more cars in here, and slow them DOWN

Big James Reese Europe fan here, this is wild!

S&S to Publish Account of Trump’s Second Term Regime Change by White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan will release this June. S&S VP and editorial director Jonathan Jao acquired world rights from Matt Latimer at Javelin and ...

Literally who gives a shit.

My understanding is the ”hard” just means “direct,” as in more R&b/blues influence than the relatively intellectualized Parker/Gillespie mold. Mobley’s relaxedness is what makes him a standard bearer.

I mean Hank Mobley is synonymous with hard bop so if that’s what you mean (Dexter Gordon too) then I think the name fits!

Hard bop, though Donald Byrd and Freddie Hubbard stayed quite melodic in electric settings too.

Their leader/singer is currently on some bullshit AI kick so let’s not give them too much credit. (The whole Fisherman’s Blues album still a favorite.)

Running laps in high school wrestling practice, nearly dead, when the parade of Linkin Park and AC/DC finally breaks and a rap song comes on that‘s so good I momentarily forgot how awful I feel.

Got home and googled “Sorry Mrs Jackson/ I am for real.”

They’re still pre-pubescent, it’s the Waterboys.

He is risen

(he = Kid Millions)

Jesus Christ, Lou

“Kissing My Love” and “Express Yourself” alone make Gadson immortal, let alone the rest of his incredible 70s beats, but he played well into the 21st century for artists varied as Kelly Hogan, Beck, Paul McCartney, Margo Price, and Corinne Bailey Rae. Drumming royalty.

Amazing record Top to bottom!

Marvin Gaye - Please Stay (Once You Go Away) (Visualizer) YouTube video by MarvinGayeVEVO

His best known records kick off with immortal title tracks but he was truly the king of deepening everything on track 2.

A Vietnam song that skips right past the war and focuses instead on a veteran‘s excitement to return to a normalcy that no longer exists. “Will our ballclub win the pennant?” has never sounded sadder.

That was his gift, right? It always seems so intensely personal for him, and only grew more so as his career went on. Yet the voice is so light and welcoming.

Marvin Gaye - What's Happening Brother YouTube video by love marvin

It’s Marvin Gaye’s birthday, and of all the immeasurably great songs he released, this one is maybe highest for me. If only for the way he sings “How in the world have you been?” One of those moments that always brings me close to tears and I can’t even really say why.

Bob Dylan's AI "Lectures from the Grave" Are an Accidental Warning for What Not to Do Bob Dylan's new AI "Lectures from the Grave" Patreon series is available for $5 a month to the curious and masochistic.

My biggest problem with Robert Polito’s new book “After the Flood,” about Dylan post-1991 (some of my fav music ever), is that it treats him strictly as a world-historical artistic genius and ignores that he’s also one of the all time inscrutable celebrities who occasionally makes dogshit.

Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time Anatomy of one of least studied human organs could improve outcomes for women who have pelvic surgery

I've been doing field research for 25 years and they just… tweeted it out.

Finally digging into @johnlingan.bsky.social 's Backbeats and it's taking me a while because every time he describes a track he does it so well I need to listen to it right away.

His late-career ballad version of “Help the Aged” would've been great.

Quite relevant since they fascinatingly skip the drum part.

Really appreciate that because it was the hardest to write. What else is there to say about them?

Thanks So much for reading, Keith!

Fair warning to speed readers:

That movie rules hard. If you like him it’s a feast.

Put me on the galley list, Matt! Xoxo