prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
It was fairly surprising news when we found out that TV on the Radio singer Tunde Adebimpe was getting an important role in Jonathan Demme's new high-profile movie, Rachel Getting ...
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 09/27/2008
by John Goetz I just ran across the following news article from Pitchfork Media: Jarvis, Feist Sail to Arctic to Investigate Global Warming Laurie Anderson, Robyn Hitchcock, Martha Wainwright, and Ryuichi Sakamoto too! Feist, Jarvis Cocker, and a bunch of other artists board a ship to the Arctic to investigate climate change. It sounds like a strange [...]
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
It used to be that a list of albums offered up in December or January could paint a definitive, or at least representative, picture of The Year in Music. While that annual list is still a great way to say goodbye to the past year’s music and hello to what is to come, nowadays so many new albums and reissues vie for listeners that even a list of the best music from the past six months can seem quaintly...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
It used to be that a list of albums offered up in December or January could paint a definitive, or at least representative, picture of The Year in Music. While that annual list is still a great way to say goodbye to the past year’s music and hello to what is to come, nowadays so many new albums and reissues vie for listeners that even a list of the best music from the past six months can seem quaintly...
Rock Sellout (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
The Zombies recently announced that they will perform legendary 1968 album Odessey & Oracle in its entirety for the very last time in the UK April 2009. I was lucky enough to catch the band perform this summer and it was absolutely incredible! If you have an opportunity to catch this show, do yourself a [...]
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Pictured: Primal Scream. Will Young is punching up some big numbers with new single "Changes". After an incredible 10,000 plays on UK radio, the track is #1 in the national airplay chart ...
The Freethinker (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
ATHEIST comedian Robin Ince made the horrible mistake last year of agreeing to participate in a debate staged by ITV’s London Talking. The subject was to be “Is Britain becoming more secular?”, but was changed at the last minute to “Who is taking the Christ out of Christmas'” Despite all his efforts to convince the audience [...]
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Emotional actress ANNE HATHAWAY is taking a little time away from showbusiness in an effort to address the personal hell she has been through this year (08). The ...
The Music Lovers Monthly Review (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
The Walkmen - In the New Year from You & Me The Dutchess and the Duke - Reservoir Park from She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke 31Knots - Compass Commands from Worried Well Kristoffer Ragnstam - Disco Fiasco from Wrong Side of the Room Robyn Hitchcock - Bad Case of History from Luminous Groove Stereolab - Three Women from Chemical Chords Fujiya & Miyagi - Knickerbocker from Knickerbocker (single) Azeda...
Tim Goodman. The Bastard Machine (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Gotta love You Tube. Who knew I could find Robyn Hitchcock singing "Queen Elvis," arguably his greatest song ever (at least I'd argue that) from a 1989 in-store appearance where the guy working the camera can't focus? It's a beautiful world. We're all just strangers in it. Here then, as I take...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Rachel Getting Married Jonathan Demme's new movie Rachel Getting Married stars Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt & Tunde Adebimpe (of TV On The Radio) and features Robyn performing two songs: "America" and one written for the movie, "Up to Our Nex."...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
The Cambridge Dictionary (that’s the Online Advanced Learner’s edition for all you fact fans) defines 'cult' as ‘someone or something that has become very popular with a particular group of people’, and it’s hard to find a mention of American band Big Star without this word sneaking in. What we generally take cult to mean is that the thing in question isn’t of much interest to the world in general,...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Alex Chilton was a teenybopper pin-up via his first band The Box Tops. In 1971 Chilton teamed up with Chris Bell, an old mate from his home town of Memphis, Tennessee, to join a band called Icewater. He changed the name to Big Star, and they made a debut album, No 1 Record, that critics acclaimed as a masterpiece, but which was heard by virtually no one on account of abysmal distribution.
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
MP3: Robyn Hitchcock - "Bad Case of History" from Luminous Groove, out now....
Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
My favorite Robyn Hitchcock songs are not always the most clever. Sure, who else can pull off "My Wife and My Dead Wife" or "I Got the Hots"? No one, that's who. But if there is justice in songwriting heaven,...
