Brazen Best Of Music 07
- 20 Jan 08
Music Album Reviews
Using the same ratings system as the movie poll, (fewer) Brazen hacks pick the year's best albums, then spend the next eleven months telling each other why they're wrong; because, aside from three obvious frontrunners, there was very little consensus...
Chris Was An Interpol Fan And He Was Temporarily Down
- 17 Dec 07
Music Live Music
One of the great joys and privileges of being allowed to ramble on about music for Brazen is that, once or twice a week, I can wake up, go to my front door and find an unsolicited package waiting for me full of free CDs, ostensibly for review or other publicity-generating purposes. Consequently, I get to hear a lot more music than I otherwise would, especially given my oft-acknowledged disdain for downloading, legal or otherwise. I'd conservatively estimate that I've heard around seventy full-length albums this year, roughly double what I heard in 2006, before I had any kind of 'official' (snigger) capacity as music editor and Gavin and Steve got the CDs instead. I like what I do here is what I'm saying, essentially.
Seasick Steve Is The Fucking Man
- 17 Oct 07
Music Music Interviews
At this year's inaugural Connect festival, one old man in dungarees and a tattered baseball cap and his three-stringed guitar took to the stage early on Sunday afternoon and, in forty-five minutes, stole the whole weekend away from every other act playing. After a life spent lurking, Zelig-like, in the background of many of the most important musical movements of the late twentieth century (including the American blues scene of the 1950s and the Washington state alternative rock scene of the late 80s and early 90s that spawned, amongst others, Modest Mouse and Nirvana), Seasick Steve (or Steve Wold, to his mother), finally released a solo album - Dog House Music - in 2006, and, aged somewhere in his 60s (no two sources agree on an exact age) quickly began to accrue a fierce live reputation that could provoke jealousy in men a third his age.