Category Archive for 'Gainesville'

Brittle Stars @ Pop Mayhem, Thursday, May 8

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

6500 miles can’t stop the rock. Thursday, May 8th, a reunited Brittle Stars play Common Grounds as a part of Gainesville’s Pop Mayhem festival.
Hear songs such as, but not performed as well as, these:

Falling Backwards
Someplace (but not this place)
This Trip
So Unfair

Also that night: Ifwhen, the Buddy System, Giddy-Up Helicopter, and maybe one other band. Sorry [...]

Yelp! I need somebody.

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

I’ve started Yelping and I’m hooked. Thanks, Heather!

WDHV and Maria Taylor

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

WDHV 101.7 is a little FM station in Trenton that plays some great pre-70’s classic country. The other day I caught the tail end of “Talk Back Trembling Lips” from 1963 and the rhythm section and reverb filled the van so nicely–it made my morning. They do slip in later stuff and even up to [...]

Alachua County Library Bookmarklet

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Whenever you’re on a page with an ISBN in the URL, like Amazon or some other bookish site, activate ACL to pop-up a search for that book within the Alachua County Library Catalog.
This was generated with the LibraryLookup Project’s Bookmarklet builder, which can build a similar bookmarklet for any library using one of 16 popular [...]

Lilys interview

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

A brief history of one of my favorite bands. It’s hard to describe to non-musicians how Kurt’s music stands my ears on end. Of course there are the straight-up hooks for the kid in me, but there’s also the complex harmonies for the music geek in me. A piece like “The Tennis System [...]

Hana’s First Show

Friday, September 9th, 2005

I posted on Gainesvillebands.com:
This is Hana’s first show and you should be there. They’re writing the most beautiful mellow songs you’ve never heard…songs that you’ll come to treasure and nestle in your mixCDs and playlists around Low and MBV and the Clientele for years to come, but you get to enjoy them NOW out in [...]