Onefinemess

The blog formerly known as Onefinemess.

Who needs new music when there’s new old music?

| April 11, 2011

Seriously. I find almost as much, if not more “new” old music of quality than I do new new music of quality these days. Some of it is just cases of “finally” getting around to listening to classic albums  – like Derek & the Dominoes/Layla & Other Love Songs, which I’ve been playing as the [...]

This album is really growing on me

| April 5, 2011

Dear Leader : All I Ever Wanted was Tonight (2004). I tracked this down because Dear Leader is the band Adam Perrino (singer/songwriter of the late, awesomely great The Sheila Divine (seriously, check them out)) moved on to after The Sheila Divine broke up.  This is their second album, I think. I picked the first [...]

Great bands you might not have heard of #6: The Sheila Divine

| April 27, 2010

I haven’t done one of these in a while, so here we go.  The Sheila Divine is a band we first heard while waiting in a club for a Frank Black show.  We heard the track Hum (below) and it was so awesome I had to find out who it was.  I asked around and [...]

what’s going on?

| October 13, 2009

During which I address a bunch of disparate topics with quite parate rambles: The season has slipped back into obnoxious up here in the Portland of the West (I’m not talking to you Portland, Maine!).  Freezing wind (not literally, yet), cold nights, and RAIN.  RAIN.  Yes, someday we will move and leave you far behind.   [...]