Musicology

I am a champion of all things musical, save for Supertramp. Fuck those guys.

For the Yacht Weather…

For the Yacht Weather…

It’s freaking gorgeous out today. And it’s supposed to be a gloriously pleasant Philadelphia weekend the whole way through kiddies. And you know there’s no better way to celebrate it than to head outdoors, sip a cocktail filled with coconut…

23 skidooed by on April 13th, 2012

Chimes of Freedom: Track by Track

Chimes of Freedom: Track by Track

As those in the Dylan know know, covers of our own Shakespeare In The Alley could be considered an entire genre of pop music. The homages, sendups, reimaginings and interpretations are endless, and were going on as soon as he…

23 skidooed by on February 19th, 2012

Zombocalypse: Original Soundtrack

Zombocalypse: Original Soundtrack

In honor of the midseason premiere of The Walking Dead tonight, I present you with Zombocalypse, the soundtrack to the Zombie Film that has been going on in my brain ever since I sat enraptured with and horrified by Night…

23 skidooed by on February 12th, 2012

Let’s Go To The Record Store!

Let’s Go To The Record Store!

Sure, I love hoarding a hard drive full of digital music treasures, as well as the Spotify streaming behemoth, but it’s true when they say that nothing beats a trip to the record store. Here’s another post in a continuing…

23 skidooed by on February 10th, 2012

Just A Friend: The Duckie Mix

Just A Friend: The Duckie Mix

Ugh… It’s been some time since I walked that walk. That Duck Man walk. I was married just shy of three months ago to my my Good Lady Wife. She’s a wonderful lady, and she bandaged and tended to that…

23 skidooed by on February 8th, 2012

Obsessions in The Year of the Rabbit

Obsessions in The Year of the Rabbit

I obsess. About music, film, comedy, a clean kitchen counter, the precise folding of my laundry and tying of my shoes… I’m not well. While some of these are a window into much deeper problems relating to my upbringing, others…

23 skidooed by on January 15th, 2012

The Year of the Rabbit: Things What I Liked in 2011, 25-1

The Year of the Rabbit: Things What I Liked in 2011, 25-1

Check out Fishtonian.com’s Spotify Playlist for The Best in The Year of the Rabbit. 25 K-Holes K-Holes Hozak Records Hark! Is that the saxophone of Hawkwind I hear? No, but it’s the fucking K-Holes. Laying down a bed of Doom…

23 skidooed by on December 26th, 2011

The Year of the Rabbit: Things What I Liked in 2011, 50-26

The Year of the Rabbit: Things What I Liked in 2011, 50-26

Check out Fishtonian.com’s Spotify Playlist for The Best in The Year of the Rabbit. 50 Empros Russian Circles Sargent House Instrumental outfit Russian Circles does a bang-up job conjuring an amalgam of epic sludge metal, post rock pacing and meticulous…

23 skidooed by on December 25th, 2011

The Year of the Tiger: Things What I Liked in 2010

The Year of the Tiger: Things What I Liked in 2010

50 Pickin’ Up The Pieces Fitz & the Tantrums Dangerbird Records 49 Fields Junip Mute 48 Dark Night Of The Soul Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Capitol Records 47 How I Got Over The Roots Def Jam Recordings 46 Le Noise…

23 skidooed by on December 24th, 2011

The Year of the Ox: Things What I Liked in 2009

The Year of the Ox: Things What I Liked in 2009

35 Beast Rest Forth Mouth Bear in Heaven Hometapes 34 …At The Moment Of Our Most Needing Rock Plaza Central Paper Bag Records 33 Beware Bonnie “Prince” Billy Drag City 32 Tyvek Tyvek Siltbreeze 31 Run Rabbit Run Sufjan Stevens,…

23 skidooed by on December 23rd, 2011