James Blake
Brief Encounters: New Albums 10-8-21 – 10-14-21 Reviewed
reflexively simple on the surface so you can’t miss the song of the song
The Earliest Bird: Top New Recorded Release 10-8-21 – 10-14-21, James Blake’s “Friends That Break Your Heart” Reviewed
the intensity of Scott Walker to the melodic grace of The Walker Brothers
LA PHIL AND KCRW ANNOUNCE LINE-UP FOR 2021 KCRW’S WORLD FESTIVAL AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL
Brittany Howard, Kamasi Washington, Ziggy Marley, and James Blake are part of the lineup
Brief Encounters: New Albums 12-11-20 – 12-17-20 Reviewed
James Blake on top
Is Ivanka Listening To Music? Do We Even Care?
she had a punk phase in the ‘90s
Best Albums Of 2019
life and death and soul
L. A. Burning, West Coast Concert Picks December 9th To 16th 2019
DIIV are playing on Saturday and Sunday at the Lodge Room
Best Of 2019: Albums Through November 30th, 2019
Lauv’s sad songs say so much
Best Of 2019: Albums Through October 31st
The first rush of hard earned faith by the greatest artist of the 2010s.
Best Of 2019: Albums Through September 30th
more songs about dead wives
L.A. Burning West Coast Concert Picks, September 23rd To 29th
On Saturday, Moby will play at Jail Guitar Doors: Rock Out 5!
Best Of 2019: Albums Through August 31st
love and sadness in the summer
More Thoughts About Rock Writing And Lists
the sole job of rock criticism in 2019
Best Of 2019: Albums Through June 30th
The Curtis Mayfield covers are awesome
Best Of 2019: Albums Through May 31st
a masterclass in what it means to dismiss the USSR and find yourself with a different superpower
James Blake Performs “I’ll Come Too” At The First-Ever Live Session From KCRW’s Brand-New Annenberg Performance Studio
James Blake performed a seven-song live set
Best Of 2019: Albums Through April 30th
an inversion of time and consciousness.
Best Of 2019: Albums Through March 31st
a titanic like the ship construction of self-awareness and political awareness born together
Best Of 2019: Albums Through February 28th
“Sex In The City” 2019 songs of pop and love and romance and betrayal (and death)
UK Top 10 Albums 2-1-19- 2-7-19
YES! Sgt Pepper remains in a tie for most non consecutive weeks at # 1.
Best Of 2019: Albums Through January 31st, 2019
“I’ll Come To You” is the gateway drug
UK Top 10 Albums 1-25-19 – 1-31-19
WE WILL NEVER BE SAFE.
My Top Ten Musical Events Of 2018
An exceptional, restless, badass performance of a man at the top of his form
Music Tastes Good In Long Beach, September 29th & 30th 2018
‘This festival has a really really nice vibe, it’s fantastic’
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, SEPTEMBER 24TH TO 30TH
Parquet Courts are playing Music Tastes Good on Sunday
The Early Bird: Top New Albums And Singles 12-29-17 – 01-04-18
So, what else? Nothing at all…
L.A. BURNING, WEST COAST CONCERT PICKS, DECEMBER 4th To 10th 2017
This is this time of the year, KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas is here
James Blake Covers Paul Simon’s ‘The Sound Of Silence’
27-year-old James Blake debuted his own version of the song during his last BBC radio 1 residency, and the UK producer revamped the 50-year-old song with electronica and layered voices. The result is cavernous, cathedral-esque with a big organ-like drone covered by Blake’s kaleidoscopic falsettos; it’s not very modern sounding, rather melancholic and so I guess this version will appeal to many generations.
Hear Ye On Spotify: What rock nyc is listening to 11-30-13
Life Round Here – James Blake And Chance The Rapper – Haunting and beautiful, but of course that comes on the James Blake label, what doesb’t is Chance The Rapper, atonal rap so weird and in place – A-