Los Feliz-based The Airborne Toxic Event perform the first of two sold-out shows at Webster Hall in New York City "It's like a Spaceland lineup from 2007," quipped The Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett in October the week before CMJ at Northern Lights in Clifton Park, about 20 minutes north of Albany. "Short of being at Spaceland in LA a few years ago, I'm pleasantly shocked...
Even though I check entertainment.ie almost every day to see what’s on the auld tellybox later, it somehow slipped my notice that they’re currently running their annual awards. And in the ‘best Irish blogger’ section, they’ve short-listed little auld us! Ok, so we’re up against some stiff competition in the form of Maman Poulet, Culch.ie, Jim [...]
Now that they have emerged bleary-eyed from their garage bunker, The xx are stealing the show with their blend of emotional, somnambulant rock. Singer Oliver Sim tells how a bunch of teenagers from south London became the talk of the town
Having been lucky enough to see Airborne Toxic Event at SxSW earlier this year, it is fair to say MM was a little over-excited to be heading off with pal Stu, to Birmingham this evening to catch a full set from the band.We were not disappointed.No support band meant they took the stage just after 8.30 and entertained us non-stop for nearly two hours. The level of intensity and energy was, if
Jim Carroll's beyond excellent On The Record blog has given Shane "B.S." Fitzgerald's article airtime. Yeah, after reading that you might cop what B.S. stands for. (It's bullshit) . And with that, I couldn't stop myself giving my raging off-the-cuff two-cents (i.e. rant ) in the comments section; see number 45 . I have a right to be bitter, he's sullying my name! That's my job! I genuinely...
Last week ’ by Marina The Diamonds appeared on Kanye West’s blog. Not a bad recommendation for a yet-to- be-released single. Marina Diamandis tells how a girl from the valleys took the well-travelled road to London to work at becoming a singer. Mum and dad weren’t keen and she was rejected at auditions for an all-boy reggae band, but the world loves a trier and Diamandis is about...
I ain't got no day job I write my poems over 40 years and counting picking up cans off the highway for the deposit with the same hand I shook Bukowski's with Tim Leary's with Buckwheat Zydeco's with Wild Bill Everson's with Kathy Acker's with Art Blakey's with Wild Man Fischer's with Bob Kaufman's with Elvin Bishop's with Mr. Burroughs' with Gary Snyder's with Cedar Walton's with Jim Carroll's with...
The New York poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll was the author of The Basketball Diaries, a lurid account of his transformation from a clean-cut teenager attending a private school in Manhattan to a junkie hustling around Times Square to support his habit.
My mother-in-law sent me an e-mail yesterday asking if I knew who Soupy Sales was. She had grown up watching him on TV and still remembers how to do "The Soupy Shuffle." I wrote back that my experience with Soupy was primarily through his guest appearances on various quiz shows and "The Love Boat." He didn't make the dent in my life the way that someone like Don Knotts did. Or Jim...
Eight brothers – and one drummer – whooping up a brassy storm on the streets of downtown Chicago was quite a sight – and sound. No wonder Hypnotic Brass Ensemble caught the eye of a local politician, Barack Obama. But, as Gabriel Hubert tells , they weren’t so keen to play for him
"This place is nice -- really nice," said Unicycle Loves You singer/guitarist Jim Carroll as he paused onstage and looked around Lincoln Hall, Chicago's new concert venue.
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