In amazingly timely fashion, my movie/TV, fiction, and music highlights of 2012 are up: http://tjkopena.com/wiki/?n=Reading.2012Highlights In less amazingly timely fashion, my post on 2011 highlights that’s been laying around half-completed for a year is also polished and up: http://tjkopena.com/wiki/?n=Reading.2011Highlights
I first came across the Jezabels in Danny MacAskill’s Way Back Home video, which features their song A Little Piece. It turns out that the whole album, Dark Storm, is amazing. In some ways it sounds a bit similar to Florence + … Continue reading
A lot of people have undoubtedly heard Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind featuring Alicia Keys, and presumably a fair bit have heard her version on her The Element of Freedom album, but I wanted to point out the instrumental … Continue reading
Music of the week is Killaflaw’s Set Me On Fire. Alex McAndrews (Clarkson) was playing this earlier in the ECCC MTB season and it’s a pretty sweet dance/rhythm song. At 4:18 it’s short enough to play over the PA and … Continue reading