Renegade Regionalists: The Modern Independence of Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry
Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Apparently Zach Galifianakis was blessed at birth by a magical unicorn whose horn filled Zach's anus with a lifetime of AWKWARD. Enjoy yet another "Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifiankis" with guest stars Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, and... where DID he get that amazing "cricket riding a tumbleweed" machine? [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
From the preview Gone Away Again : The Fiery Furnaces, Cryptacize, Dent May (Chop Suey) Just when you thought you'd never hear a straightforward recording by the Fiery Furnaces again, along comes their new album I'm Going Away (Thrill Jockey). It's the most classic-rocking record of their career and the least cluttered since 2005's EP, and it couldn't come at a better time. After seven years of flaunting...
I Heart Noise (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
New Day Rising (Fan Site) MySpace Page We’re going to try to do something bigger than anything like rock & roll and the whole puny touring band idea. I don’t know what it’s going to be, we have to work that out, but it’s going to go beyond the whole idea of ‘punk rock’ or whatever. (Bob [...] Related posts: Download – Tellus – All Guitars! Tellus...
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Feist to play free show in Toronto tonight. Exclaim A.C. Newman , Leonard Cohen , Metric , K'Naan make Amazon Editors' Best Albums of 2009 list . Stereogum Broken Social Scene , Kardinal Offishal , Cale Sampson make Now Magazine's Readers' Best Music List . nowtoronto.com Patrick Watson to tour Europe. Chart Blue Rodeo to play rooftop show in Toronto Nov 10. Chart Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart...
Westword | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In the rock world, singing drummers are almost as rare as talking dogs. But Grant Hart, the man who assaulted the kit for Hüsker Dü throughout the '80s, was more than a novelty back in the day. Besides writing and lending his voice to almost as many Hüsker classics as his guitar-sl...
I Heart Noise (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Associated Entries: Husker Du Release Date: October 6, 2009 Format: CD Label: Con D’or New solo album by Husker Du / Nova Mob drummer Grant Hart – his first solo release in a decade (a follow-up to 1999 “Good News For Modern Man”) and his third overall. The album was recorded in Montreal and Minneapolis and features guest appearances [...] Related posts: New Releases –...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Fresh off the release of his newest album in 10 (!!!) years, Grant Hart has now announced that he will be setting off on a U.S. tour in support of Hot Wax (available since October through Con D'or/MVD Audio). If you know anything about Grant Hart, then you know that Hüsker Dü were (and are) awesome and that they had some legendarily awesome shows during their career. Let me assure you that...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The former Hüsker Dü drummer hits the road.
Medialoper (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Today’s links of interest: Al Katkowsky: The Book As AppThe iPhone just might be the future of self-publishing. Grant Hart: 2541I (k2) love this song. You should too. Monrovian Analog BloggerHow long before the news agencies in Liberia sue this guy? The Shining declared ’scariest horror film ever’So many possible jokes, so little time. DRM by any other name: The [...]
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
U2 never does anything in a small way these days. The Irish band's "360 Tour," which kicked off earlier this year, has already played to more than 3 million people in 44 cities. That's no small feat when you consider it costs $750,000 per day just to keep it up and running.
Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The usual monthly round-up. Fairly slim pickings as the release schedules are dominated by X-Factor pop fodder, compilations, remasters, reissues, box sets, old live albums etc. etc. Nov 2nd 2562 – Unbalance (Tectonic) CIRCULASIONE TOTALE ORCHESTRA – Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon) DEFRAG – Lament Element (Hymen) DJ SPOOKY – The Secret Song (Thirsty Ear) FELIX – You are the...
I Heart Noise (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Here’s a list of new releases for a month of October, according to Brainwashed / Adequacy.net websites: 60 Watt Kid – We Come From The Bright Side (Absolutely Kosher) A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head (Mute) Ólafur Arnalds – Found Sounds (Erased Tapes) Atlas Sound – Logos (Kranky) Baroness – Blue Record (Relapse) Bear In Heaven – Beast Rest...
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Grant Hart's latest solo Hot Wax album rocks the house and garage.
The Glass Walking-Stick (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
I've just been listening to Husker Du's hardcore classic, New Day Rising, whilst wading through humongous piles of washing-up. I'm sure when Grant Hart and Bob Mould wrote such songs as Books About UFOs and Powerline they didn't imagine they'd one day be the soundtrack to my attempts to scrape congealed cheese sauce out of a mixing-jug. Or maybe they did imagine that: Husker Du were always ahead of...
MusicEmissions (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Aside from Bigfoot, UFO's and WMD in Iraq, one of the biggest current myths is that Bob Mould was the best songwriter in Husker Du. Clearly he was in the beginning, when songs like "In a Free Land," "Everything Falls Apart" and "Chartered Trips" set standard for the angry, wounded, soulful rock that devolved eventually into emo. But Grant Hart was a singular talent as...
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