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Whiplash, much? Straight back into chamber pop! Hah! Belle and Sebastian (who famously took their name from a French children's TV p...

I had a friend in Pittsburgh whose fondest fangirl memory was of Iggy Pop spitting on her from the stage. I don't remember if it was d...

Regina Spektor is not allowed in the house, mainly for her own protection. People use words like "quirky" and "idiosyncra...

[T]he body as the power of Einfühlung is already desire, libido, projection-introjection, identification. The esthesiological structure of ...

Kaki King is a brilliant guitarist who fuses several styles of guitar music and techniques to create her own stuff. What I most like about...

The distinctive feature of the living being is that nothing appeases its vital tension, as if any realization were at the same time a failur...

If you're a fan of chamber pop, and you don't know Parenthetical Girls, you should go out and get this album immediately. This is ...

These recordings of the great bebop tandem of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie were central to my introduction to modern jazz, back at U...

Now Jeff Buckley, he's not allowed in the house . Son of mercurial singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, who died in 1975 of a heroin over...

... we spoke summarily of a reversibility of the seeing and the visible, of the touching and the touched. It is time to emphasize that it is...

Steely Dan are bona fide pop music legends, weirdos, and perverts. I mean that in the nicest possible way, as most of my friends would con...

I can't really give full verbal expression to what goes on in my kitchen sometimes. Gratin de pommes de terre à la dauphinoise Inn...

This is a ballad in E. I'm repeating the song info from the Soundclick page: This is a tune I just sort of came across while doing fin...

Is angsty pop-rock really necessary? What happens when angsty pop-rock grows up? The Shins offer answers to these questions in this 2007...

Tom Waits is my hero. This album is one reason why. I don't think any of his work tops this 1985 album. It follows the pattern of hi...

What The Visible and the Invisible boils down to is an attempt to evoke the origination of meaning, signification, and expression - the nas...

The album of the day is actually the DVD of the day. Sue me. I'm not a jazz historian, but I do know a few things about modern jazz....

Attempting an entirely novel account of perception, meaning, and truth, Merleau-Ponty begins to work up this notion of flesh. Only it's ...

The first studio album of all original John Coltrane compositions, Giant Steps was pretty aptly named. It arrived just as Coltrane's ...

Really, it is! Here's Merleau-Ponty on why: ... But from this it follows that the words most charged with philosophy are not necessari...