I heard Culture Club’s “Karma Chameleon” on the way to the post office today. It was a welcome change from the syrupy Christmas Muzak that the City of Adelaide has decided to pipe into Rundle Mall to inspire that festive spirit and loosen the purse strings. Every time I hear “Karma Chameleon”, I have a [...]
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Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school.
23 Oct 2008 at 08:53
A Free Man
Books, Boy Z, British Artists, Dr. O'C, Films, Music, Time wasters, Videos
With exams due, lectures to prepare and reports to write, A Free Man has not enough feet in too many camps this week. My head’s all over the place and I’ve started posts about topics as diverse as sedition, mobile phones, Lyndon LaRouche and my bus ride to work. Instead, I’ve decided to harness all this disparate thought to [...]
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Jarvis Cocker - "Running The World" [4:39m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Pulp - "Common People" [5:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download William Shatner - "Common People" [2:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadZ’s Music Monday: The Rolling Stones – “Exile on Main Street”
The sunshine bores the daylights out of me.
Chasing shadows moonlight mystery.
Headed for the overload,
Splattered on the dirty road,
Kick me like you’ve kicked before,
I can’t even feel the pain no more…
My first memory of The Rolling Stones is one of profound dislike. I’m not saying that I was some sort of music snob child progeny, but [...]
The makings of a very satisfactory first Father’s Day…
Some early morning Father/Son bonding…
During which we were thrilled to see this…
The requisite card…
Two teams, two wins…
And a trip to the beach for lunch…
But most importantly…
It just doesn’t get better.
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Frank Turner has had multiple appearances on A Free Man, including one of the Top 10 best records of 2008 and an interview. You should absolutely [...]
MP3s of the Week: Melody, Mystery and Memory
31 Jul 2008 at 15:00
A Free Man
American artists, Americana, British Artists, Country, Hip-Hop, MP3 of the Week, Making music in your bedroom, folk, jazz
Let’s kick things off this week with the sultry, smoky voice of Melody Gardot. Her debut LP, “Worrisome Heart” is out and what I’ve heard of it so far is just stunning. Gardot was seriously injured after being hit by a car whilst riding her bicycle in 2004. One of the treatments suggested for her [...]
Z’s Music Monday: Get pissed, destroyyyy…
It was not my intent to open the Pandora’s box of punk rock for young Z over breakfast on Sunday morning. In the gamut of kid’s music, punk has some things going for it – loud, simple chord structure and often amusing, repetitive lyrics. It also has a number of fairly obvious negatives. But when my [...]
New Music Monday: Picture Atlantic and Head of Femur
There’s a fine line between being influenced by an artist and being derivative of an artitst and Picture Atlantic is staggering along that tightrope. The Oakland, California based quintet seems to be managing pretty well so far. They recently got the chance to open for Brit-pop brontosaurus Coldplay in California, but while Picture Atlantic’s influences clearly [...]
Picture Atlantic - "Slip Into The Sea" [2:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Head of Femur - "Great Plains" [2:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadBrought to you by the letter “T”
About the only two things that Tropidelic and Tafra have in common are the first letter of their names and the fact that I’ve had their records in my hands waiting for a review for far too long. Actually, one other thing that these two acts share – A Free Man digs them.
A reggae band [...]
MP3s of the Week: Top Toffs Edition
24 Jun 2008 at 10:27
A Free Man
American artists, Australian Artists, British Artists, Brooklyn, MP3 of the Week
The older I get, the more I appreciate the darkly twisted Nick Cave. He and his Bad Seeds have a new record out, “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” which is just pure art. Check out the title track for a glimpse.
MP3: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”
London based singer-songwriter Owen Duff has [...]
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