Archive for May, 2010

Our No-Vacation Nation

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Is a Well-Rested Workforce Happier? What Americans Can Learn From the Rest of the World About Taking Time Off From the Job

Our No-Vacation Nation

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Is a Well-Rested Workforce Happier? What Americans Can Learn From the Rest of the World About Taking Time Off From the Job

Our No-Vacation Nation

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Is a Well-Rested Workforce Happier? What Americans Can Learn From the Rest of the World About Taking Time Off From the Job

Our No-Vacation Nation

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

What American Workers Can Learn From the Rest of the World About Taking Time Off

Our No-Vacation Nation

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Is a Well-Rested Workforce Happier? What Americans Can Learn From the Rest of the World About Taking Time Off From the Job

Album: Dvorak, Symphony No 7 / American Suite (Channel Classics)

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

The turmoil of the opening movement of Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony has rarely sounded so thrilling.

Album: Charlie Haden, The Complete Remastered etc (Camjazz)

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

The two albums by the ex-Ornette Coleman alumni-group Old and New Dreams are justly celebrated, but they’re entirely outshone in this superb five-disc box-set by three relative obscurities:

Album: Jack Johnson, To the Sea (Island)

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Too old for the Hollister generation, Johnson now sells albums to the likes of Gavin and Stacey’s Uncle Bryn, who, erm, dig the laid-back grooves and the idea they are down with the kids.

Album: Faust, Faust Is Last (Klangbad)

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

One of the progenitors of “krautrock” and as charmingly elusive a bunch as the field has produced.

Reed’s eardrum assault

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

It’s the album that almost ended his career, but Lou Reed revisited it in Sydney last night for the Vivid Live festival.