eachman.com (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Lou Reed and Shane McGowan, originally uploaded by Caroline. My first time competing for shots in the photo pit. All the other photographers were male, tall, big and Irish. I've have tons to edit when I get back home....
DIY Filmmaker Sujewa (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
In his follow up to the post about film festivals and indie film distribution, Jonathan Marlow says the following: "About 20 years ago, David Thomas (frontman for the legendary Pere Ubu ) suggested that there were far too many bands in the world. I think it's time to revive his appeal and apply it to the motion picture industry. There are far too many people making movies that have no business picking...
BLCKDGRD (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
David Thomas, of my beloved Pere Ubu, a band that would be, if I played a stupid desert island game, one of the five bands in my perma-rotation.
UnaRocks (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
ANALOG just gets better and better, doesn't it? Lou Reed has just been confirmed for Hal Willner's Rogues Gallery : Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys. The line-up for that particular event already features Teddy Thompson, Waterson: Carthy, Gavin Friday, David Thomas (Pere Ubu), Julie Fowlis, Baby Gramps, Ed Harcourt, Rachel Unthank & the Winterset on July 18th. Other gigs on the 18th down in the...
Punk Turns 30 (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Hives bassist Matt Destruction with Tearjerkers drummer John Bubba Bonds Last week, I saw Sweden's garage rock sensations, The Hives, courtesy of one of my favorite bands, my friends, Jack Oblivian and the Tennessee Tearjerkers. Hanging out with Tearjerkers drummer, John Bubba Bonds I had a chance to talk music with his pal, Hives bassist, Matt Destruction. When I gave Matt my business card - which...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
The story of Kent, Ohio’s Human Switchboard would make a great screenplay — a trio of Velvet Underground devotees start a band, get signed, release one critically acclaimed, but low-selling LP … after splitting, the founder/lead singer works his way up through the record industry to become president of a major label … only to [...]
Digital Poetics (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
I'm in the midst of writing a big book, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, 1974-1982, and have been wondering a bit lately about the attraction of punk. There's a lot about it I don't like, and yet I've been writing...
Digital Poetics (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Peter Laughner. Cleveland. 1973, 74, 75. In Rocket from the Tombs, the sort of band that was too good to last. In Pere Ubu for a while, but thankfully got out before Art took over and they became something to...
Music and Vision (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Sonia Paço-Rocchia: Pedalling Under London's Clouds (experimental music night); London, UK - Wednesday 12 March 2008
Things I'd Rather Be Doing (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Merge Records and Hearpen Records both announced plans on Monday to offer their recordings for digital download. Merge is obviously the big story here, putting its vast catalog online for both high-quality MP3 and FLAC downloading in its digital store The most interesting news here is that Merge is doing what every label should do by planning to offer "rare, out of print, and exclusive new material...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 02/21/2008
Jim Jones – not the monstrous “reverend” of Guyana – was a centerpiece of the Cleveland underground rock scene for nearly forty years. Jones’ most renowned accomplishment to outsiders, his role as guitarist in the seminal Cleveland-based post-punk band Pere Ubu, did not come until he was already well-established with local bands less known to [...]
On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
The all day John Cage Happening in Bruge, Belgium this Sunday (Feb) 17 is a complete sell-out. On An Overgrown Path will be there and also at Morton Feldman's Rothko Chapel two days before. Adventurous programming and new music is certainly pulling in the European audiences, and the next hot ticket looks to be the happening previewed below, and we will be there as well: spnm's experimental music night...
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 09/18/2007
Another reason to be proud of my Cleveland heritage is Pere Ubu, a band that organized in my home town in 1975, when I was still living there. Click here for a video of Pere Ubu, with front man David Thomas, performing on Night Music , a short-lived television show hosted by David Sanborn. The song is "Breath," from Cloudland (1989). Here are the lyrics, from the Pere Ubu web site: "Dog day afternoon...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/14/2007
Every time The Gossip's Beth Ditto strips her 15-stone figure down to her underwear, she runs the risk of reducing herself to a novelty, or a freak show. You don't have to go far, in even allegedly liberal circles, to hear her band identified by the phrase "the fat bird", or to hear repulsion at the sight of her expressed.
