local Cut (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Kelly Blair Bauman sees Portland burning, and he’s got the midlife-crisis folk to soundtrack the destruction. [DOOM POP] “Across the bridge to this forsaken town/ Like some Gomorrah in the night,” sings Kelly Blair Bauman on “I Saw Stars,” a gorgeous standout from his debut solo record, Gomorrah. That’s as specific as he gets in identifying [...] Related posts: Extended...
local Cut (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Happy Monday! It is a gorgeous day in Chico, CA and we don’t have a show tonight, so having a mellow morning with new friends. Last night was a lovely house show in Chico set up by Erin Lizardo—a great folk artist from these parts. We took turns playing songs with Erin, The Red Ribbon [...] Related posts: Grey Anne: Anti-materialist meanderings in Eugene (Eugene, OR) Day 3—Euge Extended...
local Cut (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Pogues play Roseland this Sunday. The show is sold out. Still, you might wanna read this Q&A between Jay Horton and Spider Stacy. -Ed. The Pogues never should’ve existed. Not in 1982, not forcing tin whistle and accordion on the pogo-ing faithful. And it seems faintly miraculous the famed Celtic punk outfit’s core members stayed [...] Related posts: Mic Check: The Pogues See the...
local Cut (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Last week I got an email from a press contact wondering if I’d like to interview Frank Black. It was already past our deadline for print, but, when you get the chance to talk to one of your favorite musicians of all-time, you don’t really say no. I was a bit worried that Black (or [...] Related posts: Let’s Get Ugly After a 20 Q&A: The Upsidedown’s Jsun Atoms Midst nati...
what's wrong with the mainstream (Free subscription) | 06/21/2009
No.1 in a series - Nirvana at The Reading Festival, 23rd August 1991 I remember having to get up and out of my sleeping bag fairly early (before midday!) after a long night spent drinking bottles of lager and cider whilst dancing ironically to 2unlimited and Altern8 around our blazing camp fire. The weather was hot and the headache was thumping as we trudged into the main arena to catch the Babes in...
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Some more fruits of our late May visit to Barcelona's Primavera Sound fest, where WFMU set up camp (like, in a tent and all) for three sunkissed days and breezy Mediterranean nights. We've got archives of 20 of the sets...
local Cut (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
In today’s print edition of WW, we debuted a new feature that you’ll be seeing more often than not in the coming months. Mic Check is a short box centered around an interview with a touring or local musician that takes something that we would usually just put up here on LocalCut and gets it [...] Related posts: Extended Q&A with Eugene Kelly of the Vaselines Last week, Extended Q&A...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
It’s not every day we can claim one of Kurt Cobain’s favorite bands has popped by our offices to play an acoustic set, but that’s exactly what happened recently when Scottish duo the Vaselines visited the RS studios for a three-song performance. Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee (Frances Bean Cobain’s namesake) played “Molly’s Lips,” “Jesus [...]
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 05/19/2009
Frances McKee looks sweet, doesn't she? The Vaselines Music Hall of Williamsburg Monday, May 18 When Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly took the stage to "Son of a Gun" on the last night of their reunion tour, I got choked up, to my surprise. I haven't dug out my copy of The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History (not yet upgraded to Sub Pop's 2009 Enter the Vaselines ) very often, but I have...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 05/18/2009
photos by Tim Griffin "On Sunday night at Bowery Ballroom, The Vaselines essentially played every song they ever wrote, including 2 new songs that sounded like they could have been written back in the late 80s along with the others....
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 05/13/2009
Neumos, I find your all-ages show configurations endlessly baffling. You just never know until you walk in the door whether there will be cleverly constructed cages, or if someone is going to be confined to the balcony. I’m sure that there’s some sort of complicated algorithm that drives the whole thing, I just can’t figure [...]
Line Out (Free subscription) | 05/13/2009
The Vaselines opened their set last night, of course, with "Son of a Gun"—if you have that song, with its infinitely loopable sing-along chours, in your repertoire, why wouldn't you lead with it? Eugene Kelly introduced the next song, "Monsterpussy," by saying, "This song is about a pussy Frances used to have—sometime she'd let me stroke it, and sometimes she wouldn't."...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 05/12/2009
At the Huffington Post, Ariel Gonzalez explains why President Obama is reading Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland (and why you should too). After having finished Netherland, I can see why President Obama added it to his reading list. Aside from...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Last summer, arguably the biggest event in local music was SP20, the anniversary party for Sub Pop’s twenty years of going out of business. Lately, it seems like SP21 is continuing because a lot of (nonlocal) acts from the label have been coming through town with some great regularity, although I’ll never be accused of [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 05/07/2009
When the Vaselines performed their first show in nearly 20 years last year, guitarist/singer Eugene Kelly
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