Album review: Laurie Anderson’s ‘Homeland’

by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 12, 2010 | Five Star Rating, Music Reviews

Only Laurie Anderson, the violin-playing poet laureate of American estrangement, could make an industrial-tinged club banger that dives into the following topics with clear-eyed passion, anguish and humor: America’s blind trust in authority; the media’s...

Kylie Minogue’s – Aphrodite

by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 7, 2010 | Music Reviews, New Releases

By time of Kylie Minogue’s eleventh album, 2010’s Aphrodite, she had been releasing records for over 20 years. Most artists who’ve stuck around for that long end up rehashing their past catalogs and/or growing stale, but Kylie manages to avoid these fates by...

This Year’s Model: Karen Elson

by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 6, 2010 | Music Reviews, New Releases, Other News

Karen Elson’s Music Rock star/supermodel couplings are a showbiz cliché–Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, Seal and Heidi Klum, David Bowie and Iman, Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, Rod Stewart and any number of interchangeable...

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO “Street Songs of Love”

by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 5, 2010 | Music Reviews, New Releases

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO “Street Songs of Love” lives up to the direct monosyllables of its title, then transcends them. It’s a set of 12 midtempo, clear-cut, guitar-driven songs and a closing instrumental, usually with just three or four chords, in the style that was once...

TYGERS PROWLING 40 YEARS, COME OUT OF THE WOODS WITH GOOD-TIME MUSIC FOR DEPRESSED TIMES!

by morristown@scotticd.com | Jul 5, 2010 | *** Three Stars, Music Reviews

In my course of searching for that ever-elusive new music, sometimes you come across something unique, different, and if you’re lucky, sometimes you come across something with a gimmick to latch onto. Never mind two! Tygers Gimmick #1: Revisionism.  You see, the...

IMAGES AND MUSIC, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, ADRIAN BELEW WILL BRING ALL THAT AND A BAG OF EFFECTS TO THE WORLD CAFÉ LIVE WITH “PAINTING WITH GUITAR”

by morristown@scotticd.com | Jul 5, 2010 | Concert Reviews, Music Reviews, Other News, Promotions

In case you readers in the South East region of Pennsylvania don’t know about it, there is a wonderful multi-level music club/eatery/radio station near the 30thStreet Train Station called World Café Live.  I have been there several times and even blogged about a...