"There's a time in life for Hoagy Carmichael. There's a time in life for Claude Debussy. There's a time in life for Jerry Lee Lewis. There's a time in life for Destiny's Child. All these things have their moment." ~Elvis Costello
03 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: paul simon, steve martin
31 Aug 2026 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: el lugar correcto, natalia lafourcade
Natalia Lafourcade: “El Lugar Correcto” (Live) (2024)
When Mexican singer/songstress Natalia Lafourcade says, as is her wont at her concerts, “Welcome to my living room”, it feels like you’ve found el lugar correcto indeed.
She writes and plays in a myriad of styles; paints with many colors. But there is gentle, effortless beauty in all her work. And a deep love for the music itselt.
She was born for this.
Sorry, I had to be absent for a moment
I had an appointment to attend with myself
I had forgotten how to see in a mirror
In my face, in my eyes, what inhabits my universe
Forgive me if I cried, cried, cried while dancing
I had old pains to attend to from that past
Then I returned to that necessary silence
To hear the heart speak of the truth
Of the truth that are those sunsets
Of the truth that shines in the present time
Of the truth that is in those simple things, like breathing
Excuse me, I had to be absent for a moment
There was a flower drying inside the house
I had forgotten how to keep it company
To the solitude of my old garden in Veracruz
Forgive me if I cried, cried, cried while dancing
I had old pains to attend to from that past
Then I returned to that necessary silence
To hear the heart speak the truth
And the right place is now
To walk
The right place is now
No more is needed
And the right place is now
To walk
And the right place is now
No more is needed
See also: Video of the Week: Natalia Lafourcade–NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert | Every Moment Has A Song
22 Aug 2026 Leave a comment
in Video of the Week Tags: linda ronstadt, you're no good
December 21, 1973 performance on the Midnight Special, with Skunk Baxter on congas, Andrew Gold on guitar and Little Feat’s Richie Hayward on drums.
20 Aug 2026 Leave a comment
in List of the Day Tags: randy bachman, ray davies, thin lizzy
Aspiring music nerds: Try using the little-known, correct pronunciations of these rockers. You’ll either sound like the smartest or the dumbest person in the room.
…of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive doesn’t pronounce his name BOCK-min, but BACK-min, using the Canadian rather than the more common German pronunciation of the name.
…is named after a character from a British children’s comic magazine–a robot named Tin Lizzy.
The band changed the spelling to “Thin” to poke fun at the local Dublin accent, in which “thin” would be rendered as “tin”.
So the band’s name is actually, officially, pronounced “Tin Lizzy”.
…aka the Godfather of Britpop, pronounces his last name DA-viss, rather than DA-veez. Kinky.
17 Aug 2026 Leave a comment
in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: joshua james, queen of the city
Joshua James: “Queen of the City” (2012)
Indie folk songwriter Joshua James has been writing spooky, spare, introspective songs “since I got the disease”.
He’s the rare folk singer who can land multiple songs on the Sons of Anarchy soundtrack and release an album of Carpenters covers.
His voice, like his songs, comes across with a gritty and arresting honesty–exactly what you’d expect from a guy who raises chickens, goats and honeybees.in Utah.
Every Moment Has A Song 