Music Geek-Out #9: Pixies “Monkey Gone to Heaven”

Again, there are many reasons why I chose this song for the philoSOPHIA dinner playlist at Miami. As I mentioned, I was doing a little “awesome female bassist” subsection of the set. AND, at a school an hour away from…

Music Geek-Out #8: Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”

Not only is this song a classic in the Modern Rock canon, it also has some specific significance in my grad school experience, and it plays nicely off one of the first songs in the “dance party” portion of the…

Music Geek-Out #7

Next is XTC’s “Making Plans for Nigel”. This track was always on 97X’s Modern Rock 500 (a countdown of the 500 best modern rock songs, held the same weekend as the Indy 500, which was about a two hour drive…

Music Geek-Out #5

Sorry for the hiatus–the end-of-term hustle gobbled up my life for the past few weeks. So, back to the philoSOPHIA/WOXY dinner playlist: Next is another Ohio band, Cleveland’s Pere Ubu. Keeping with the post-industrial theme, I chose their “Final Solution.”…

Music Geek-Out #10: The Breeders “Cannonball”

When I was a teenage girl growing up in John Boehner’s congressional district halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton, OH, Kim Deal was the ish. She was from where I was from, but she managed to escape post-Mapplethorpe crazy Republican land…

Music Geek-Out #6

The next track on my dinner playlist is one of my favorite songs in this group. It’s the Afghan Whigs “Rebirth of the Cool”. This was a remix of their song “Milez is Ded” (and the title thus a play…

Music Geek-Out #4

[This is a series on my setlist from philoSOPHIA 2012.] From “My City Was Gone” to Siouxie’s “Cities in Dust”.    In a way, these are both about rust belts–Hynde is talking about the US Midwest, and Siouxie is referring to…

Music Geek-Out #3

[This is part of the series where I blog about my setlist from philoSOPHIA 2012.] Second is The Pretenders’ “My City Was Gone,” which I only recently learned is not titled “Back to Ohio”: The Prestenders’ lead singer, Chrissy Hynde,…

Friday Music Geek-Out #1

So, I haven’t been able to teach music-focused courses for a few years (budget cuts). This means that I haven’t been forced to set time aside to listen to and think about music as music, music for its own sake,…

If you hate Justin Bieber, patriarchy wins

I just want to remind Charlotteans that you can come hear my talk–and 11 other great talks–Tuesday at Ignite Charlotte 4. For those of you who aren’t local, they are taping the talks, and I’ll post a link to the…