Monday, December 5, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #154 – Fados (2007 dir. Carlos Saura)

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Spanish director Carlos Saura has made a career of putting various music and dance styles stemming from the Iberian Peninsula on film in g...
Monday, November 28, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #167 - Stevie Wonder - Music of My Mind

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Music of My Mind highlights a key moment in Stevie Wonder’s transition from child prodigy and Motown star to independent adult artist res...
Monday, November 21, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #153 – Superman Returns (2006, dir. Bryan Singer)

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After setting the bar for modern comic book movies with X-Men and X-Men 2, Bryan Singer abandoned the third installment of that series t...
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #166 - Shelly Manne & His Men – At the Black Hawk Vol. 1

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Ornette Coleman Quartet at the Five Spot. John Coltrane at the Village Vanguard. Miles Davis Quintet at the Plugged Nickel. And... Shell...
Monday, November 7, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #152 – Wings Of Desire (1987, dir. Wim Wenders)

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Damiel: When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? Wh...
Monday, October 31, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #165 - Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030

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In 2009, I worked with at-risk youth in a public school program in Portland, Oregon. Music provided a touchstone for both staff and studen...
Monday, October 24, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #151 – From Beyond (1986, dir. Stuart Gordon)

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In the 1980’s Hollywood rediscovered the horror genre. After several decades of murderers, biker gangs, hillbillies and mutually assured n...
Monday, October 17, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #164 - New York Dolls - In Too Much Too Soon

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In 1973, the New York Dolls debuted with their self-titled album, acclaimed as a success by many who loved their live presence on the N...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Concert Review: Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees 10/6/16 at the Boulder Theater

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Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, and the Milk Carton Kids kicked off their 11-stop “Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees” tour with ...
Monday, October 10, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #150 – Slam (1998, dir. Marc Levin)

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That’s “slam” as in “poetry slam” but it’s also “slam” as in “the slammer,” and this 1998 film that won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes ...
Monday, October 3, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #163 - Savoy Brown – Hellbound Train

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In 1972, the expectation of most rock groups was that they would produce upbeat, hit-oriented records which record labels could introduce ...
Monday, September 26, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #149 – Sneakers (1992, dir. Phil Alden Robinson)

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In the fall of 1992, the writers of WarGames , the director of Field of Dreams , and an incredible ensemble cast created an irresistible ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #162 - Smog - A River Ain’t Too Much to Love

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Since the early 1990s, Bill Callahan has been creating the kind of idiosyncratic folk-rock that established the brand of his longtime labe...
Monday, September 12, 2016

I’d Love To Turn You On At The Movies #148 – Neil Young’s Rust Never Sleeps and Human Highway

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Neil Young gave us the best description of himself and his music in the title of his 1968 song “I Am A Child.” The magic and genius of Nei...
Monday, September 5, 2016

I'd Love to Turn You On #162 - Pere Ubu - Dub Housing

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The first thing you hear in the first song “Navvy” is the guitar playing a melody. Then a counter melody joins it, followed by a strange s...