- Hex Breaker Quintet. Briefly existing dream unit all of Grasshopper and all of Telecult Powers, processed trumpets and electronics that turned Zebulon and Goodbye Blue Monday and such into other places, far away. Gone now, with the departure of Witchbeam. Maybe not forever. Hear a live at WFMU session here.
- Prince's Hot Chicken in Nashville. Somewhat legendary, totally amazing. (Also bitchin' from same trip to Nashville: a not-quite-drunk-enough-but-that-might-be-impossible encounter with Phil Hummer and the White Falcons.)
- Jimmy McMillan. Not merely the man (whose policy on mountain destroying I do not support), nor even his emergence as an always-needed classic NYC fringe character and occasional political candidate, but that the internet could so quickly burp up his killer 1975 single, "A Woman Is So Hard To Understand." Big ups to Marty McSorley.
- Their Hispanic Majesties Request (Norton). Double 7-inch of Spanish-language covers of perennially underloved Stones cuts. Brilliant from dumb pun to the artwork to the fact that the sucker totally jams. Got stopped at least twice at the Record Fair by scary Stones collector geeks who thought it might be an obscurity they were missing.
- "Rill Rill" - Sleigh Bells (Mom + Pop). My brain's melodic spackle c. 2010.
- Celestial Navigations: The Short FIlms of Al Jarnow. Perhaps a bias here, since I worked on the project. And also because he's my dad.
- Flower-Corsano Duo at Silent Barn, April 10th: Random night in Bushwick, my mind cracked and spilled into the universe of gorgeous sound created by Michael Flower's 17-string "Japan banjo" (a bubul tarang) and Corsano's equally melodic drumming.
- Byron Coley and Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace show at White Columns. Equally gorgeous and historical.
- Chris Knox benefit at Le Poisson Rouge, May 6th: Forgetting former WFMU DJ Jeff Mangum's appearance (or not) the night was basically a two-hour jam between The Clean and Yo La Tengo.
- La Superior tacos, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Runner up: M. Shanghai soup dumplings.)
prince's hot chicken is no joke. they warned me about ordering it extra spicy, which i poo-poo'd much to my regret
Posted by: bertz | December 18, 2010 at 10:59 PM
You've given the wrong link for La Superior tacos.
Posted by: Taco Fan | December 21, 2010 at 09:38 PM