Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-02-01T05:24:23Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/2008/01/ Songs I Like Air Guitar Nation tag:vox.com,2008-02-01:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f30f577da60001 2008-02-01T05:20:03Z 2008-02-01T05:24:23Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

C. Diddy Air Guitar Nation Performance Brewer in the Air

My brother gave us the Air Guitar Nation DVD for Christmas, which chronicles the USA's first entry into the Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland in 2003. The documentary centers on US rivals Dan "Bjorn Turoque" Crane and David "C-Diddy...

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]]> My VOX FAQ tag:vox.com,2008-01-31:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d7fc750004 2008-01-31T12:12:05Z 2008-01-31T12:12:05Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Why do I have to be a VOX member to leave a comment? Blogger supports anonymous comments. I don't know; SixApart, the parent company of VOX, made it that way. This setup is similar to several other closed communities, such as MOG, iMeem, and Mu...

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]]> Catching up with Neko Case tag:vox.com,2008-01-31:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d7efab0003 2008-01-31T03:21:59Z 2008-01-31T03:21:59Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On

As in, I'm catching up on my blog by posting about Neko Case, and her fabulous concert at Ithaca's historic State Theatre last Saturday. She was personable and funny, the glorious voice on her records is no mere studio construction, her band was ...

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]]> Another score: 54.40 tag:vox.com,2008-01-26:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d668610004 2008-01-26T19:35:59Z 2008-01-29T23:46:16Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

10-Yank 11-He's Got Sound of Truth (The Independent Collection) Recommended for Airplay

On a high from finding so much long-lost music, I scoured my brain for more to look for, and came up with 54.40. Everything about 54.40's first record, the six-song EP Selection, fascinated me from the moment I found it in the campus radio statio...

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]]> Lyle Lovett makes country music tolerable, sort of tag:vox.com,2008-01-25:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d5e0b10003 2008-01-25T02:25:42Z 2008-01-25T17:36:19Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Lyle Lovett - God Will

I don't much care for country music, or its fraternal twin, so-called "alt" country (if the singer does hard drugs it's "alt" country, if not it's just plain country). But with talk of Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt bringing their acoustic show to to...

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Mahjongg - Aluminum

I've been using Google Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds right and left, because if the information is out there I want to know it as soon as it gets there, dammit! And yesterday it paid off: reading my feeds at home, finally, after a gruelling tw...

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]]> Love and death tag:vox.com,2008-01-19:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d3e2620003 2008-01-19T06:24:23Z 2008-01-19T06:28:21Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Andy Pratt - Can't Stop My Love

My grandmother died yesterday at age 96; she was my last living grandparent. The blog will be silent for a few days while we travel to Indiana for the funeral. I think no song speaks of the power of love to transcend death better than Andy Pratt...

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]]> Some real Killing Joke tag:vox.com,2008-01-18:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d368ce0001 2008-01-18T01:53:58Z 2008-01-18T01:53:58Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Killing Joke - Money is not our god

Instead of more long-lost but now-found music, I'm going to follow up the past two posts of pretend Killing Joke with some real Killing Joke. After the gothic beauty and mainstream appeal of 1985's Night Time, Killing Joke went into decline. But...

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]]> Serendipity: 1919 tag:vox.com,2008-01-16:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d2dcdd0003 2008-01-16T03:21:34Z 2008-01-18T03:57:35Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Slave

Yesterday I wrote about my continuing search for music by 1919; today I found it! The Killing Joke followers' 1983 mini-LP Machine (which I used to own, but sold on ebay in the 90s) was just posted last week on the Sickness Abounds blog, or as bl...

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]]> Deferred listening: Headhunters tag:vox.com,2008-01-15:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398d26d130001 2008-01-15T03:43:37Z 2008-01-15T03:48:17Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

01 Bright And Bloody

One of the great lost records of my 80s music experience is an album by the Headhunters. It was one of those records that we had at the campus radio station, and I played several cuts from it, but I never found a copy for myself. I have a 12" si...

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