Whenever another misogynistic loudmouth with a drum machine leads me to despair for the state of hip-hop music, I rush to my CD collection to give another listen to Solillaquists of Sound’s 2006 album, “As If We Existed.” Exquisitely produced, dazzlingly musical, and lyrically inspired, the album is a bright shock of beauty in a genre crowded thick with attitude and anger. [Read More...]
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Yeehaw! At long last, the new and vastly improved Missoulian.com site is up. Check it out! The archives are apparently still in process of transferring, but recent content is all there, and it’s so much more logical and clean, design-wise. Share on Facebook Advertisement This is pretty excellent. And the mando player kinda looks like a hairier Jason Wiener. Share on Facebook You remember Bryan Adams, right? “Cuts Like a Knife”….”Summer of ’69″….yeah, that Bryan Adams. It’s now been 14 years since his last #1 single, “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?,” hit the charts. His latest album, “11,” peaked at #80 on the U.S. charts. Now, he’s coming to Missoula. Solo. And if you’re like me, you’re gonna be shocked at the price of tickets. [Read More...] It was 20 years ago this year that the rap act 2 Live Crew released its single, “Pretty Woman,” and sparked a debate that has flamed until today about the legality and ethics of sampling. That hit song, which employed instrumental excerpts from Roy Orbison’s 1964 song of the same name, became the subject of a prolonged legal battle that ultimately wound its way to the Supreme Court. While 2 Live Crew ultimately lost the battle, the cultural war was ultimately won by those who saw sampling as an essential form of art-making in the digital age. Today, it’s hard to find a hit hip-hop or dance song that doesn’t employ some pre-existing recording. For those of us raised in this era, sampling may seem a uniquely new means of music composition. But as the celebrated classical composer and pianist Eric Moe intends to demonstrate this weekend, the technique dates back much farther, to the heyday of 19th century classical music. And its leading proponents and practitioners were hardly the foul-mouthed rabble-rousers that many considered 2 Live Crew to be. [Read More...] It’s growing harder by the day to build a fence around Bob Wire. When local resident Ednor Therriault first started performing music under that name back in the latter part of the last century, it seemed easy enough to peg him as a honky-tonk tunesman. Patsy Cline and Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens: His band’s playlist read like a greatest hits of old-school country dance music. The first indication that Bob Wire wouldn’t end up following a predictable path may have come in April of 1997, when he and his band, the Fencemenders, announced they were breaking up for good. “I’m hoping that someone will pick up the torch,” he told the Missoulian at the time. Turned out, Bob Wire couldn’t keep his own hands way from the fire. [Read More...] Got a press release late last night that Ben Folds will be playing the Wilma Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Oh MAN am I stoked; his show with Rufus Wainwright a couple of years ago at Chateau St. Michelle in Seattle was one of the best performances I’ve seen. And to quote fellow Missoulian reporter and Missoula Red Tape blogger Chelsi Moy when I told her about the show: “Dude, that is going to be SO! SWEET!” She even wrote a reminder note on the back of her hand to buy tickets this Friday. Anyway, enough fawning…Click through for details… [Read More...] |
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