Busiest day ever. Apologies + Brian Glaze
Kevin’s at an AP conference. James is moving into a new apartment. I’m taking a break from slogging through the relevant research on behavior-specific praise and it’s effect on student on-task behavior in advance of a meeting with my doctoral advisor tomorrow. (Fascinating stuff, by the way. If you’re looking for something to take into the bathroom with you, I’d suggest: Reinke, W.M., Lewis-Palmer, T., & Martin, E. (2007). The effect of visual performance feedback on teacher use of behavior-specific praise. Behavior Modification, 31(3), 247-263. It’s a barn burner!)
All this to say that none of us had the time to prepare a proper album review for today. (I’m so deep in the hole that the time I’m taking to type these 200 words may well be the difference between me securing a PhD at some point and washing out of the program after my meeting crashes and burns. Just kidding. I hope.) Since we didn’t want to leave you high and dry without any new tunes today, however, we’ve got two tracks from the upcoming album Green Living from Brian Glaze, the original drummer from Brian Jonestown Massacre. The album’s out on World Famous in SF Records on July 28 (I’m imagining we’ll have some more coverage as that date approaches.) The tracks are solid, incorporating a kind of spaced-out pop sensibility while maintaining a kind of nefarious edge and borderline psychedelic texture. I’m partial to “Bad News,” but the guitar solo and creepy drum beat are growing on me in “Leader of the Band.” We’ll be back soon with more fleshed out content. (In the meantime, if you’ve got any interesting material on research using SSD methodology to investigate the utility of behavior specific praise, pass it along.)
“Leader of the Band” – Brian Glaze
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