Hollywood and Vine (Audio CD) - Various Artists (Radiohead, Cocteau Twins, Luscious Jackson, Spearhead, Blind Melon, Supergrass, Vic Chesnutt, Everclear, Sparklehorse, more)
Slowcoustic (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Tomorrow night I will hopefully be spending some quality time with Liz. Okay, spending time at a table in the back, casually tapping my foot while enjoying what I can only assume will be a frosty brew.
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Benevento/Russo Duo : Another instrumental take here, this one they dedicate to The Slip’s Brad Barr. Speaking of which, you can find another great rendition of this song on the LMA that in addition to The Duo, features Andrew Barr & Marc Friedman from The Slip. Source: 7-4-2003 Brothers Past : Most of the covers are pretty to-the-point this week, thankfully we have Brothers Past to extend...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Bowerbirds play a tiny desk concert at NPR Music. The Guardian profiles comics legend Osamu Tezuka and his creation, Astro Boy. Tezuka's comics look outward to the world, too: his influences are decisively international. Individual frames, as McCarthy points out,...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
by Andrew Frisicano DOWNLOAD: Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild (WAV) (huge file) Jonathan Richman @ Bowery Ballroom in June (more by Andrew Frisicano) Jonathan Richman is prepping the follow-up to his 2008 album Because Her...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Metro Weekly profiles singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer. ''I like mixing up music and lyrics in ways that are confusing to compel the listener,'' the pop musician says. ''That's another thing I really like about this art form. You can make as...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Vic Chesnutt is a study in contradictions. The most recent example of that in Chesnutt’s professional life is what to do with two new albums recorded a month apart: Skitter on Take-off, a solo album produced by the great Jonathan Richman, and the decidedly different-feeling At the Cut, his second album with Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra. (He previously paired with them in 2007 for North Star...
PsychFolk (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Vic Chesnutt is a pretty remarkable musician. His distinctive voice and folk guitar styling is par none, and he is often accompanied by the most notable of artists no matter what the genre. Chesnutt recently released just such an album called At The Cut which featured Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. While that record may have garnered him a bit of press, he slipped...
Slowcoustic (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Upcoming is a concert I am making sure I am at - the Vic Chesnutt / Liz Durrett performance at the Marquee Room on November 23rd (locals, please note change in venue with Timbre Productions).
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Builder & the Butchers: "Vampire Lake" [mp3] from Loch Lomond/The Builders & the Butchers Split 12″ other Builder & the Butchers posts at Largehearted Boy Heather Greene: "Moon Hangs Fire" [mp3] from Sweet...
the echo and echoplex (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
[ December 1, 2009; 7:30 pm to 11:55 pm. ] Vic Chesnutt Band || Listen featuring Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion As on 2007's North Star Deserter, Chesnutt is here joined by members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra, as well as Fugazi's Guy Picciotto. Together they build a sound that walks [...]
:: JOJOBLOG :: (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Hat tip to T. Ballard Lesseman and Brooklyn Brewery, without whom I would not have known these exciting things about the amazingly prolific poet Vic Chesnutt because I have been under a rock sleeping for the past year: THE VIC CHESNUTT RECORD AND WHY ME AND TOMMY WANTED TO DO IT JONATHAN: "My drummer Tommy Larkins and I were driving in the van across the United States as we do two or three times...
Turn It Up (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Vic Chesnutt: The singer's alternately harrowing and rueful songs will be fleshed out on this tour by an all-star band, including members of Fugazi (Guy Picciotto) and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thursday at Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Av., $18;...
:: JOJOBLOG :: (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Vic Chesnutt often appears with Jonathan. Here's a set of live stuff from Vic and Elf Power -- a June, 2009 Daytrotter session.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Jones was the most delicately luminous talent produced by the West Coast scene of the 1970s. When she's good she changes the very light; when she's bad she's dull. This is very good. It's a collection of hitherto uncompleted songs from the drifts of her career and ought to be seen as a triumph of good housekeeping. The ensemble includes Bill Frisell, Ben Harper, Alison Krauss and Vic Chesnutt; the...
rssblogstory.com Music (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Vic Chesnutt: The singer's alternately harrowing and rueful songs will be fleshed out on this tour by an all-star band, including members of Fugazi
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