Author: Don Durito

Bleak times call for bleak tunes. I’ve been promising some minimal wave for a while, so I’ll turn this over to an acquaintance of mine who loves to post these lovely mixes — sometimes on Soundcloud, and at...

Better late midweek than never. This week: covers of Velvet Underground songs. That was Cat Power’s cover of I Found a Reason. The song appeared on the soundtrack of the film V for Vendetta about a decade ago. Something...

This week’s song: “Heroes” by David Bowie: If this is playing during my commute, I’m singing it. One of my favorite Bowie tunes ever.Live in Berlin, 2002: And from Live Aid in 1985:

This week a video by Wire: Like many post-punk (or alt-rock, or whatever you may call them) bands that I grew up with, Wire could easily be written off as a “legacy” band. Their remaining members aren’t too...

Here is the inaugural comeback of the Friday Foto Flogs that so many nurtured years ago (Bob X, olivia, etc.). This month’s edition is skylines. Although I am thinking primarily in terms of urban skylines, the term can be...