Bonus track: White Mischief, which I am despondent to learn is not available on DVD

I love Carl Craig, but so far I only like The Detroit Experiment. I'm really into the stuff that sounds like it could be a sountrack for a remake of Uptown Saturday Night, and there are some amazing players involved (Geri Allen!), but my attention wanders away in spots, and I hate, hate, hate the cover of "Too High." I keep putting it in the trade pile, but then I keep putting it on "one more time" and then putting it back in the current listening pile.

I take it you recommend the Detroit Experiment? I've been curious.

As I said above, I like The Detroit Experiment, but I don't love it.

A Mighty Wind DVD

How are these? I've heard very mixed reviews of the latter, and nothing at all about the quality of the former. I thought the Warhols' Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia was a masterpiece, albeit poorly-named.

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I dunno, the whole indie rock scene seems so tired and self-referential and self-involved compared to everything else going on.

did you pick up the new Aesop Rock cd yet? those Definitive Jux guys are on a roll.

Bottom line, I'd like to hear it.

im curious to read what a lot of the hip hop kids are saying about the new Outkast. i finally heard the whole thing last night, and i just cant imagine a lot of 50 fans going for it.

There are good albums and bad albums, I think. No such thing as a bad genre, even if "indie rock" were a genre, which I don't believe it is.

It would be more literally accurate to call Godspeed You! Black Emperor "classical" than to call them "post-rock", because at least the former actually means something.

I like indie rock fine. I'm just not counting on it to tell me anything new right now.

I dunno... I guess it depends what you want out of music. I tend to get my big new exciting ideas from books and movies. Music to me is all about the pure thrill of the sound; I pay very little attention to the overwhelming "commentary" it makes. That's probably why I am increasingly drawn to bands like Mogwai, who are moving mostly in the direction of simply making music rather than attaching all these emotional or political or stylistic agendas to it. That's one reason I liked the last GY!BE album so much; it was 100% music and nothing more.

as far as GYBE goes, i quite paying attention to them after the double album they released a while back. it was just getting repetitive. even the new Mogwai is really just "ok" to me. i think i go through genre binges, in which i really get into a particualar style for a while, and when i get tired of that i move onto a different sound for an undetermined amount of time. helps me keep my sanity, and prevents boredom. think i will go back to jazz or IDM for a while now, since indie rock is leaving me cold these days.

If you want something really original and far-out, pick up some Sun City Girls albums. Wacky to the max.

that being said, i heard the new one is terrible, but haven't heard for myself yet.

Bonus:
Kaki King, playing Sundown this week. Show up early for really nice guitar playing. Stick around for that blues guitarist, too, if you want.

bonus track: TV On the Radio, "Blind"

i dunno, 'Let Them Come Down' was pretty incredible.

no foolin.

However, Amazing Grace is so good because it's so stripped-down - none of the songs are longer than four minutes, and gone are the over-the-top gospel-and-string additions. Instead, Pierce lets the beauty of the songs stand on their own, and it works marvelously.

They even have draft Guiness for like $3.

Bonus track:
One that won't show up on Hot 97 (I don't think): "Hey Ya" by OutKast -- the best acoustic-guitar pop song of the year. Shake it like a Polaroid picture.