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27 September 07

Daughter Of A Mother, Of A Mother, Of A Mother…

Free Daytrotter Session MP3s (Don’t miss this page!) From golden strings and silver boughs isn’t how Alela Diane was created. She wasn’t – despite all sorts of indications that would support the claim – born of immaculate conception, for it would seem that no person of flesh and blood could birth such a mild and wizened creature as the Nevada City, Calif., songstress. She has a face that is every bit as young as it should be according to a birth date, but holds years, like a pitcher or a sponge. She has a heart that, sight unseen, could take up all the space from the neck down to the beltline.more...

25 September 07

September 17, 2006: Bound Stems

Turn Back the Clock: Sept. 17, 2006 – The Bound Stemsmore...

25 September 07

Crack A New Egg, They All Cry From The Rafters

Is there value in anything for its years alone? Could wear and tear – essentially scars of survival – be worn as medallions and earned acclaim? An old door knob is kept in the process of a move because it was once on a door in the 1920s, handling hands that went on to wrinkle and find graves. They’re worth money, these door knobs and miscellaneous old Coke bottles, beer signs and threshing machines. Old buttons made from seashells and copies of the Saturday Evening Post are held onto, not just for sentimental reasons, but for ones that have no argument…more...

24 September 07

A Little Bit Of Moog In Every Corncob Pipe, For Romantic Hearts All

Free Daytrotter Session MP3s (Don’t miss this page!) Matt Sharp has had two strikingly different public personas since we all first met him collectively and distantly, as the close-cropped, dirty blonde bassist for power-pop rejuvenators Weezer – a quartet that carried the flag for nerd rockers everywhere when it wrote its first songs about sweaters and riding surf boards to work on an everyday basis. Shortly after the inception of that band – famously documented to have happened on Valentine’s Day – Sharp began cautiously the work on a solo project that was never supposed to be heard by anyone but friends. When he wrote the first Rentals songs, he grudgingly and fitfully played them for friend Rachel Haden, then playing with her sister Petra in that dog.more...