I am so far behind with basically everything that I can almost see myself coming around the other way. I should be finishing up my first lecture of the new semester, but I just can’t bear spending much more of my Saturday on a talk that most of my students are going to doze through [...]
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Somewhere in middle America
I’ve never been to, nor have I ever had any great compulsion to visit, Omaha. Even during my self-imposed exile in the Midwest, I didn’t venture down the road from Columbia to the other Gateway to the West.
Maybe that was a mistake, because there’s obviously something going on in Omaha. There is a steady stream [...]
Thunder Power - "Postscript" [2:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Outlaw Con Bandana "Booze Hound" [2:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadNew Wilco, upcoming Wilco and near Wilco
Well, A Free Man is going to have a little more free time available (I’ll get to that post soon, I promise). One of the things I’d like to do with that free time is to get back to more frequent music blogging. So, let’s get started with that, shall we?
A Free Man favorite Wilco [...]
MP3s of the, um, ‘week’: The long overdue edition
This is really supposed to be a weekly feature, but I haven’t done one of these posts in a long, long time – largely because I’m lazy. And overwhelmed by the sheer volume of music coming through my inbox. But I asked for it, and it’s only fair that I share some of the discoveries [...]
The most wonderful time of the year.
04 Dec 2008 at 21:01
A Free Man
American artists, Australian Artists, Brooklyn, MP3s, Music, Portland, Seattle, Sweden
No, not Christmas. Christmas can bite me. I’m talking about the time for end-of-year Top 10 lists. I love a good top 10 list and have always wanted a venue on which to present one. When I was thinking of starting a blog, and this is true, one of the things that motivated me to [...]
MP3s of the Week: Athens and points west…and north…
A couple of bands from my old home of Athens, Georgia have been on repeat on A Free Man’s iPod this week and I’d like to kick things off with them. First is Dead Confederate, a five piece that may be single-handedly redefining the sound of ‘Southern Rock’ as The Drive-by Truckers did before them. These [...]
Australian Birds
Or Sheilas if I can continue with the vaguely sexist (and potentially hackneyed) metaphors. But it makes a catchy title for A Free Man’s musical picks of the week, both of whom happen to be Australian women.
I probably should have already heard of Missy Higgins, the 24 year old Melbourne based singer-songwriter. Her 2005 debut, [...]
%&*^$#!!
I’m trying really hard to restrain myself from publishing my “Things About Australia That Piss Me Off” post. But if you’ll indulge me just one – it takes nearly a month to get a home phone and internet. It wouldn’t be so bad, but they keep teasing us. Giving us dates and then changing them. [...]
MP3s of the Week: International Idol Edition
One of the guilty pleasures, among things like beef flavored Rice-a-Roni, that I hang onto from the States is American reality TV. We get the king of that genre, American Idol, a couple of days after it airs in the U.S. I have found a way to get completely hooked again this year. I rarely [...]
Adele - "Hometown Glory" [4:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Gabriella Cilmi - "Cigarettes & Lies" [2:53m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Monade - "Etoile" [5:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadVi er går till Sverige
Things are likely to be a bit quiet here at afreeman.org for the next few days. The crew (excepting dog) are off across the North Sea today for a trip to the land of moose and Malmo, of socialism and Saabs. That’s right, while most Britons are donning their sunglasses and shorts and heading for the [...]
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