Music - Sept. 26, 2007
Narrowing it down to 10 ... a futile work in progress
With apologies to Nick Hornby, I'm not much of a list-maker anymore. Sure, I was the music geek kid with a list -- and a ready-made mix tape -- for every eventuality, but now I love music more than I enjoy trying to quantify it.
Tags: rock and roll, top 10, marley, stones, beatles, dylan, smiths, sex pistols, clash, funkadelic, elvis costello, gaye, gang of four, placebo, son volt, augustus pablo

Music - Aug. 1, 2007
Random musical thoughts
There's a lot of music swirling around today and I must declutter my mind, so I'm unloading all of this stuff from my brain and onto your browser...
Tags: The Go, Sub Pop, White Stripes, Mad Planet, Placebo, Stabbing Westward, The Rave, Gianmaria Testa, Editors, Interpol, Joy Division, Piemonte, Frisell

Music - May 9, 2007
Mix tape: part three
Here’s part three of a journey through the stack of CDs on my desk. Parts one and two appeared in the Sound Check section in the past week.
Tags: Placebo, Air, Astralwerks, Hannon, Cocker, Heptones, Coxsone, Heartbeat, Rounder, LePop, Le Pop, Keren Ann, Blue Note, Sibbles, Groove Attack, Neil Young, Massey Hall

Music - Oct. 17, 2006
Placebo's debut feted with double disc
It's been 10 years since the eponymous Placebo debut was released. Amazing how time flies. Perhaps quietly, the cross-border trio -- a Dutchman, an Englishman and an American raised abroad -- has become one of the best bands around.
Tags: Placebo, Molko, Bowie, glam, Astralwerks

Music - May 1, 2006
Mix tape May '06: Bobby Tanzilo
From the edgy new Placebo record to the breezy summer sound of Josh Rouse's new disc, recorded in Spain; from reissues and a fresh new voice in jazz, Gianluca Petrella, to classic reggae, OMC music editor Bobby Tanzilo is spinning all kinds of discs these days.
Tags: Placebo, Flaming Lips, Rouse, Prestige, Van Gelder, Blue Note, Petrella, Calexico, Dub Syndicate, Studio One, Heartbeat, Rounder