Philip Fibiger

Three and a half days is really pushing the limit, in terms of acceptable short vacations that require a trip across the country. Especially when there’s two three hour drives between Albany and Ithaca included in that three and a half days. We went back east for my sister’s graduation and a wedding [...]

Emily and I went with Christian to see Neko Case at The Derby last night. It was a great show, very different from the very loud rock shows I’d been to in the past 6 months. She played with a stand-up bass player and a multi-instrumentalist who played guitar, banjo, etc. Her voice just floored [...]

Continuing with the music related entries, I found this site that compiles tons of end-of-year best-of lists, going back to the 50’s. It’s got some pretty cool data, since it has lists from NME, MOJO, Village Voice, and tons of other pubs, instead of just a Billboard list. I think that John Peel’s “Festive [...]

Greg and I were talking at work, and I asked him what the top 10 concerts he’d ever been to were. He named a couple, and then the next day he came in and told me he’d thought about it on his drive home and that night came up with a list and posted it [...]

Glenn McDonald’s The War Against Silence has a review up this week of both the new Throwing Muses record and the Production Club record. I always find his reviews interesting, even if I don’t agree with his assessment of a particular record. In this case, I think he’s pretty harsh about the Muses back catalog [...]