Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell The Dangerous Glitter of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lou Reed may be a rock legend, the founding member of the Velvet Underground, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a man so cool that fans keel over in the reflection of his mirrored shades. Yet he has an alter ego, a solitary figure, a man who retreats quietly into nature to observe the light and make elegant, romantic photographs, far removed from his life at the heart of New York City....
Popdose (Free subscription) | yesterday
Though he doesn’t get much love here at Popdose, Lou Reed has earned a spot in many of rock and roll’s hardest hearts. A whole generation of New York musicians grew up with him, the glam-rock movement idolized him, and punk may likely have never happened without his influence. Whatever he does or doesn’t do [...]
enrevanche (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
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Twangville (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
If Night One was about the late night party, night two was about the tributes. Most of the headliners – most notably Metallica and the Jeff Beck Band – mixed a healthy dose of covers into their sets, many with special guests along for the ride. Similar to Night One, the legendary Jerry Lee [...]
Friday Playdate (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tonight I was sitting in the pharmacy drive-through line, waiting for the tech to enter my insurance information into the computer AGAIN, because even though I just filled this same scrip two months ago, somehow the computer says I have no insurance. Again. Hooray! (Fortunately, I have insurance AND my insurance covers this drug, which is great [...]
Lost City (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York magazine has the scoop that the long-closed fire victim, Totonno's , will reopen..."soon." The piece is interesting in that it tells us a lot about the fire and damage that we didn't know before. Louise Ciminieri is squinting at the ceiling and frowning. “This is annoying me right now,” she says. The rectangular area in question, roughly four by three feet, is slightly...
The Opening Acts (Free subscription) | yesterday
(In which I face the reality that I rarely wake up before noon on Mondays, so titling a series “Monday Morning Video Fun” was just stupid.) Cortney Tidwell – whose musical virtue we’ve espoused here on multiple occasions – has a new video out. It’s the third video releaed from her latest album, Boys, which you still [...]
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | yesterday
Erika Wennerstrom: "I want to sound like Nico and Lou Reed." Heartless Bastards are having an incredible year: a spot on The Late Show with David Letterman, great reviews for their late...
Twangville (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Seventy years. That’s right, this year marks the seventh decade the Blind Boys of Alabama have been performing. Sure, the personnel have undergone some changes in that time, but one of the original members, Clarence Fountain, still tours with them as his health allows. What’s more, they’ve never been as relevant to the current music [...]
Michael May's Adventureblog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys I appreciate a good pirate band at the local Renaissance Festival. I'll even buy their CDs if they're cool enough. But that's not what this is. This is 43 pirate songs by folks like Nick Cave, Lou Reed, and Bryan Ferry . This is something that just went into my Amazon shopping cart. Asgarda Not sure how real this is, but it's a story about a Carpathian tribe...
Geek+Nerd (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Sigh. Today was perfect. I woke up, drank coffee and munched on leftover doughnuts from Mum's visit. Then I listened to Craftypod Episode #103 with Rachel from One Pretty Thing . As I did that I began cutting up some fabric scraps to make a new garland. I've been so inspired by garlands for a long while now, popping up all over blogs and Flickr, but this one by Pam Garrison put me over the edge. I...
Ward Six (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This seems to be the year in which my favorite writers publish novels that don't make any sense . I'm talking about the new Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City , an exhaustingly unmoored narrative about weird male friendship, set in an alternate-universe Upper East Side. There's lots to like here, especially if, like me, you like Lethem--an escaped tiger wreaking havoc, giant urban conceptual-art pits in...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I didn't listen to pop music for almost 40 years until recently when I moved here. I prefer opera but only the local NPR station plays classical music and then only for half the time. The other half is taken up with commie politics. So, if you want to listen to the radio while driving long distances, you've got a choice between the local talk radio station (which is only interesting when they run the...
There Goes The Fear (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
There must be something in the water in Sweden because as of late, the Scandinavian country has been producing a disproportionate amount of talented musicians. Dance-pop princess Lykke Li and the DJ/producing duo Bloodshy and Avant (currently masquerading as two-thirds of Miike Snow) spring immediately to mind. And here’s yet another. El [...]
Classic Rock and More (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Peter Gabriel is reportedly set to release an orchestral covers album. Called "Scratch My Back" the album is reported to be a "song swap" with a host of "extremely legendary artists" set to cover each other's material. "The songs are not simply covers," Gabriel collaborator John Metcalfe told BBC 6 Music. "They are major reinterpretations of some famous...
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