Information Leafblower (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
THE GOOD: The Tunes: Hard not to love their decidedly retro Editors-meet-Phil Spector arena ready pub rock. "Geraldine" is a total smash, as is "Go Square Go." The Accents: If it's not scottish, it's crap! The Look: Poofy hairdos, leather...
PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Unless Phil Spector is at your soundboard, you have no business writing "Danny Says".
About Crime / Punishment (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Several hundred potential jurors began answering questionnaires this week in preparation for the second murder trial of fames music producer Phil Spector for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson....
Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
About 40 prospective jurors were asked today to fill out questionnaires in the murder retrial of music producer Phil Spector, who is accused of killing an actress and House of Blues hostess at his Alhambra mansion in 2003.
Daily News (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Prospective jurors will fill out questionnaires today as the process begins to select a panel to hear the retrial of music producer Phil Spector, who is accused of killing a House of Blues hostess at his Alhambra mansion in 2003.
Sky News (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
The murder retrial of legendary music producer Phil Spector starts today, five years after an actress was found shot dead in his Los Angeles mansion.
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
I haven't been shy about talking up Crystal Stilts: The Brooklyn quartet, who got together back in 2003, and recently added ex-Vivian Girls drummer Frankie, concoct a dark, minimalist, melancholic sound, frontman Brad Hargett making like Ian Curtis fronting a Phil Spector-produced down-tempo Chills. Their forthcoming Slumberland full-length Alight Of Night , an '08 favorite, is great, as evidenced...
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
SVB is smitten with the debut album Youth Novels from Sweden's Lykke Li . Li's debut is an intimate and wistful collection of pop songs dressed up with flourishes of jazz, synth/electro-pop, folktronica, Phil Spector-esque production and Li's child-like vocals. Fans of this album liken her to Tegan & Sara, Morcheeba, Peter Bjorn & John, Beth Orton, El Perro Del Mar, Jane Birkin and The Ronettes. In...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The remix of the maverick record producer's murder trial promises to be as lurid as the original. Mick Brown reports
Material Interest (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Bruce Springsteen famously said that he wanted to make records "with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector, but most of all I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison." And who can blame him? The Big O's voice...
Most Sincerely Folks (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
The new Glasvegas album. Not that impressed by it, to be honest. Hype unwarranted, though I can understand why the Glasgow mean streets schtick might appeal to bored public schoolboys in Harrogate and Richmond. Beyond the obvious references -Phil Spector, the Jesus and Mary Chain- I think there’s more than a passing similarity to The [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
It is not an exaggeration to describe Norman Whitfield as black music’s answer to Phil Spector. In the mid- 1960s both men transformed a simple musical form and took it to previously unimagined heights of sophistication and ambition. In Spector’s case his vehicle was teenage pop; Whitfield’s was the soul music of Motown.
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
THEY'VE done the prison tour, they've even befriended the Presleys and, at the end of the year, Glasvegas head off to a cathedral in Transylvania to record a Phil Spector-inspired Christmas album. They play here tonight.
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Humor website Cracked has a music-related list detailing the 6 most insane tales of rock star behavior. Their pick for number one is a surprising one: Phil Spector kidnapping the ...
TMZ (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
Filed under: Wacky & Weird We see Harry Dean Stanton at Dan Tana's nearly every night of the week, and we've been itchin' to know what's so good about it. The restaurant is famous for its steaks. Phil Spector went there the night of you-know-what and obviously wanted to kill... Permalink
