New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
“Sometimes the more cornered you are the more fun you have.” Conundrums is a selection of elegant typographic puzzles constrained by three simple rules: one box, two colours, a single typeface. In the introduction to the book Pearce writes;...
Personal Cyber Botanica (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The Nest That Sailed The Sky by Glenn Marshall was created for Peter Gabriel… For this film, Marshall was rewarded with the Award of Distinction in the category of Computer animation, film, VFX at this year’s edition of Prix Ars Electronica. About the film: The animation transports viewers into magnificent fantasy worlds in which plantlike organisms sprout, [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
February 15th 2010 sees the release of Peter Gabriel's next album Scratch My Back. It's a compilation of his versions of the following songs Heroes (David Bowie) The Boy in the Bubble (Paul Simon) Mirrorball (Elbow) Flume (Bon Iver) Listening Wind (Talking Heads) The Power of the Heart (Lou Reed) My Body is a Cage (Arcade Fire) The Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields) I Think it's Going to Rain Today...
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Now that it's hip to say you've always been in to Peter Gabriel cause the hipster in you identifies with his choice of songs from Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, The Magnetic Fields & Regina Spektor that he's covering on his new record - Scratch My Back - due in February, I figured the hipster in me should share this amazing PG boot from a concert he did at the now defunct Spectrum in 1987. Thanks...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
OK, I have to tell you a story. The other day I was sleeping off my annual four-day Thanksgiving bender when my phone rang at the crack of midnight. It took me a second to figure out that the woman with the strange accent on the other end of the line was asking if I [...]
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Filed under: The Hit List When an act names an album after itself, it's often introducing itself to the world, signaling a rebirth or telling fans that this record is its magnum opus. Either that, or they're just not very good at titles. Some ('The Byrds ') have failed to live up to their creator's name, while others (' Christina Aguilera ') have accurately signaled the birth of a star. (By the way,...
Hollywood Dame (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Hailing from Forth Worth, Texas, Hodges is an emerging singer/songwriter who has found a musical home among others who try and tell a story through their song. Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty recognized this when he recently signed Hodges to his RTel imprint on Epic Records. Hodges attributes his vocal strength to his mother, a [...]
music, media & other random musings (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend cover) - Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip peter gabriel covering this song was inevitable “and it feels so unnatural to sing your own name” brilliant This song has been played 143 times Add New...
Great Minds Think Like Me (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
I absolutely love this song! It was on my list of wedding songs. Who can forget the boom box scene in "Say Anything." I read that Peter wrote the song for Rosanna Arquette and she is the one who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
After 18 years (18!) Martha & The Muffins return with a new album on February 2nd with Delicate, their first new studio album on their own Muffin Music label. The album was five years in the making and mixed by David Bottrill (who has worked with Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Robert Fripp). Martha and the Muffins emerged from the early punk/new wave/art pop scene in 1977 which was centered around...
Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
I can't believe it's nearly twenty years since this masterpiece of world music was made and aired on television. It is one of my favourite albums as it features so many of the world's greatest musicians all playing together to raise awareness of the planet's environment. It doesn't seem that long ago I sat and videoed it from the tv, wondering what the world would be like in 20 years from then. Some...
Naws (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Sometimes tagging is like receiving one of those childish chain letters or emails, utterly yawn central, however occasionally a tagging causes you to stop and think, I like thinking, it's like a drug. Maybe I should stop and go watch the X-factor or I'm a celebrity, but hell no, they can prise my blog from my dead, cold fingers. Frequent commenter "G", tagged me from here , placing a curse...
Real cycling (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The rain scuppered our cycling weekend in the Peaks. (We looked for a replacement activity which might benefit from the introduction of water. So instead we had a whisky tasting weekend in the Peaks.) Meanwhile we entertained ourselves by compiling our Top Entries for the British Songbook. (I've discussed bike-related pop songs , like Elton John's Sprocket Man , in a previous post.) One of the suggestions...
AlbumArtExchange Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Peter Gabriel : So, originally uploaded by See Gee. Related articles: Peter Gabriel Orchestral Covers Album On the Way (pastemagazine.com)...
Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Jayne and I hit the town in Horsham tonight: an Italian meal, followed by a walk down to the Queens Head to see Covered playing. We did that because Damian (AKA Pootergeek) sings with the band. He keeps inviting me to come along to shows, but previously they have all been down on the coast.It [...]
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szevorvjpel | 10/22/2009
CHICAGO (Billboard) –Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks isn't taking his tuxedo to the dry cleaner yet. But he's hoping that the British prog rockers, who are on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, wind up collecting trophies at the March 15 induction ceremony in New York City. "It'll be great if it does happen," Banks tells Billboard.com, "but I can't really tell whether we're going...
barabasjk951 | 10/20/2009
CHICAGO (Billboard) –Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks isn't taking his tuxedo to the dry cleaner yet. But he's hoping that the British prog rockers, who are on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, wind up collecting trophies at the March 15 induction ceremony in New York City. "It'll be great if it does happen," Banks tells Billboard.com, "but I can't really tell whether we're going...
bryn6a6j3 | 10/09/2009
CHICAGO (Billboard) –Genesis keyboardist Tony Banks isn't taking his tuxedo to the dry cleaner yet. But he's hoping that the British prog rockers, who are on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot for the first time, wind up collecting trophies at the March 15 induction ceremony in New York City. "It'll be great if it does happen," Banks tells Billboard.com, "but I can't really tell whether we're going...
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