Noel Coward: Mad Dogs & Englishmen

This was during his surprisingly lucrative Vegas days, where he fled when strapped for cash. I definitely want to come back in the next life as a temperamental, cocky, gay British guy.

(And I never did get to see the Noon-Day Gun, dammit.)

The Delgados, "Coming in from the Cold"

And now for your morning soul crushing...

Some Clear Joy is in the Record Store

The maestros of mother-me music have come again... God DAMN it, I love them! They're going to be playing in Philly next month, and I'll be there wallowing in it.

Oh yes, and Good Morning America is also coming again, but unlike the Innocence Mission, they're coming to my house. Tonight. I wonder if they'd deliver a message to Glen Beck for me.

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Fillet of Soul Sessions: Feist

Feist performing in studio at KCRW, an NPR affiliate in Santa Monica. The song, venue, lady herself, it's all just too goddamn hip for words.

Fillet of Soul's Late Nite Music Club with the Innocence Mission

The idea freshly ripped off Crooks and Liars, here's the Innocence Mission's 1995 breakthrough college hit, "Bright as Yellow."

I was in Taiwan at the time, so I missed the song's emergence, only for it to become one of my favorites a decade later. Better late than never.