{"id":175,"date":"2010-02-26T14:15:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2010-02-26T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:15:47","slug":"busy-doin-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/26\/busy-doin-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Doin\u2019 Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really. Not at all. I&#8217;m busy with a bunch of interviews, and with giving critical listens\/watches to a stack of cool stuff. Each will be detailed and recommended in its turn, and soon. Here&#8217;s some of what&#8217;s coming in the next few days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Beyond Reality<\/em>, the latest album (out now) from Dutch progressive group <strong>Mangrove<\/strong>. In their music I hear hints of just-post-Gabriel-era <strong>Genesis <\/strong>(in other words, before Genesis got way-lame) and, um, echoes (ha!) of pre-<em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>. Tuneful, interesting stuff.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Complete Columbia Singles<\/em> (out this week) is a long-overdue 3cd set from <strong>Paul Revere and the Raiders<\/strong>. I&#8217;ll have a lot to say about this, having in recent days interviewed <strong>Mark Lindsay<\/strong>, <strong>Phil &#8220;Fang&#8221; Volk<\/strong> and manager <strong>Roger Hart<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason and the Scorchers<\/strong>&#8216; latest, <em>Halcyon Days<\/em>, also out this week. All of the fire of the great stuff we remember Jason for, and he&#8217;s still at it with this consistently entertaining new album.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Apples in Stereo<\/strong> &#8211; <em>Travellers in Space and Time<\/em> (out April 20) is sixteen tracks of vocoder-y, keyboardly goodness, and crammed full of winning, hooky, ear-candy melodies.<\/li>\n<li><em>New Morning: The Tokyo Concert <\/em>is a live DVD from <strong>Mick Taylor<\/strong>. Featuring <strong>Max Middleton<\/strong> on keys, it&#8217;s an excellent live document of this still-impressive axeman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you dig (or think you&#8217;ll dig) any of the above, this might be an excellent time to start following me on Twitter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\" class=\"body\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" valign=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not really. Not at all. I&#8217;m busy with a bunch of interviews, and with giving critical listens\/watches to a stack of cool stuff. Each will be detailed and recommended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","cat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}