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Brad Lidge: Heart Attack Man

While I’m eter­nal­ly grate­ful to Brad Lidge for mak­ing Eric Hinske a house­hold name here in Philadel­phia, I feel that after two con­sec­u­tive bases-loaded saves he should at least con­sid­er chang­ing his entrance music to the Beast­ie Boys’ thrash track, “Heart Attack Man.”

The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street

I’ve been read­ing about this set all over the web, most recent­ly at An Aquar­i­um Drunk­ard. Unsur­pris­ing­ly, under­stand­ably, every­one’s fall­en in love with one of the great­est albums ever all over again.

I got the deluxe remas­tered edi­tion for Father’s Day and I’m still work­ing my way through it, but some­thing real­ly struck me as I lis­tened: do we have the Stones to blame for Blue­sham­mer and their ilk? I mean, would Ken­ny Wayne Shep­herd and Jon­ny Lang have been pos­si­ble with­out the Stones paving the way for guys like Ste­vie Ray Vaughan?

Black Mountain — “Old Fangs”

Is it still cool to like Black Moun­tain? I strayed on their last album, but I’m will­ing to come back to the fold if it sounds like this, although I’m not hear­ing the OMG Black Sab­bath freak­out peo­ple have sug­gest­ed else­where. I think I like the Two Lane Black­top vibe of their new video, though. Maybe the ’70s revival isn’t dead yet?

(I hon­est­ly don’t know any­thing about the new album as I fell off the Jagjaguwar/Secretly Canadian/Dead Oceans pro­mo list some­where along the line and nev­er reme­died that oversight.)

Erykah Badu — “Window Seat”

Helen and I are going to see Erykah Badu June 8th at the Tow­er The­ater. Janelle Mon­ae is open­ing. Am I excit­ed? Hell yeah! Just picked up Erykah’s lat­est LP at AKA Music. Love her music so much. She’s also one of my favorite enter­tain­ers these days. Does­n’t hurt that she’s play­ing fast and loose with the great sounds Par­lia­ment Funkadel­ic intro­duced either.

My Thermals Session

The Ther­mals were kind enough to stop by the Com­cast Cen­ter when they were in town to play a few songs and talk to me about their new album, Now We Can See. The Ther­mals are the sort of band who do every­thing right, but I’m not sure they’ll ever get the main­stream recog­ni­tion they deserve.

I have to say I’m extreme­ly proud of every­one who par­tic­i­pat­ed in mak­ing this look so great. I wish it were pos­si­ble to do more, but we sim­ply could­n’t get enough trac­tion to sup­port it. Tell me how you think it came out!