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Londonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Next Saturday, a ceremony of sorts takes place in St Leonards, Shoreditch, with a live spoken word and music love-in, loosely themed around marriage in all its permutations. Artists, musicians, poets, animators, sculptors and illustrators are all pitching in - for better or worse - on the big day and the 5th ' Wave If You're Really There ' happening. Wave Machines and poet Nathan Jones , last seen...
Londonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Jon Smalldon via the Londonist Flickrpool Pancreatic cancer did for everyone's favourite dirty dancer in September this year and the world's most famous tenor two years ago. It's actually the fifth most common cause of death from cancer but public awareness is relatively low. What does the pancreas do anyway? Quite. A classical concert next Tuesday hopes to help change that and raise much needed...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paste lists the best debut novels of the decade. Paste interviews David Rawlings about his debut solo album, A Friend of a Friend. Paste: You cover some songs on this record—including a medley of “Method Acting” by Bright Eyes and...
Twangville (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Friend of A Friend is the debut record from the Dave Rawlings Machine, but in reality it is the re-emergence of the Gillian Welch-Dave Rawlings brand. They’ve hardly been in hiding, contributing to records by Solomon Burke, Sara Watkins, Uncle Earl, Conor Oberst, and numerous others, but their last full length effort was all [...]
Kid Vinyl (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following the announcement of her involvement with January’s ‘Way To Blue’ series of concerts celebrating Nick Drake’s music; Vashti Bunyan will be playing six UK headline dates in April and May. She is currently working on a new album, the follow up to 2005’s long- awaited ‘Lookaftering’ with Andy Cabic of Vetiver tipped for the [...]
BlogAsheville (Free subscription) | yesterday
J. Tillman w/ Pearly Gate Music at the Grey Eagle 9pm $8 advance / $10 day of show. Standing room only. If you like Band of Horses, Bon Iver or Fleet Foxes, you will probably love this guy. From allmusic.com Singer/songwriter J. Tillman's music paints languid, sadly beautiful portraits of love and life on the margins with the moody depth of Nick Drake and the country-influenced textures of Ryan Adams....
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Karen Tumulty Time Washington Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 With health reform's first test vote on the Senate floor less than 72 hours away, a platoon of top strategists — including pollsters Mark Mellman and Geoff Garin, incoming White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer and deputy White House chief of staff Jim Messina — met with Democratic Senators Thursday afternoon to impress...
Sporting Scene (Free subscription) | yesterday
COLWYN BAY manager Neil Young will make a late decision on whether to pitch new signing Adriano Rigoglioso in from the start for the big top-three clash at Llanelian Road against Lancaster City (3pm). The Merseyside-based striker has not played...
HubArts.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Time is short this morning - jury duty continues - so I'm simply going to give you the press release direct from the Boston Symphony Orchestra with all the plans for next summer's Tanglewood season, including the return of Seiji...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
As Tom Petty prepares to release a career-spanning anthology next week, an attempt to determine where he falls in the music pantheon. By JOHN JURGENSEN WSJ Los Angeles Tom Petty goes to work in a Van Nuys warehouse next to an auto shop and an upholsterer. His band the Heartbreakers rehearses there, still looking for ways to improve after more than 30 years together. On paper, Mr. Petty rivals other...
Biggest News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Panda Diplomacy: China's goodwill pandas ready for Australia mission. Post a comment. Posted by: yang.bu. Tags: Countdown to Beijing, Adelaide, Australia, China, Chinalco, diplomacy, panda, Rio Tinto [...]
Reno Gazette Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
A $3.5 million training school affiliated with Ironworkers Local 118 has opened in Stead, a place where apprentices learn the trade and journeymen update their skills, including how to build wind turbines.
Thrasher's Wheat (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Pitchfork: TV, a mashed up semi-cover by the "super group" Jim Jarmusch, Bob Mould, Bradford Cox & No Age of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer".And this vid is rather tough to figure out what's going on. But if you stick with it, this is basically some hotel room rehearsals for ATP (All Tomorrow's Parties). Fast forward to about 4:30 to cut to the chase. Thanks Kyle Ellison!More...
Thrasher's Wheat (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Rock and Roll Guru, some Rock & Roll Wisdom via Neil Young: “Don’t let it bring you down, it’s only castles burning…”~Neil YoungThis is great advice, unless you happen to live in the castle that is burning. In that case, it’s acceptable to let it bring you down for a little while. And if you forgot to get the castleowners insurance, you’re screwed.More...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | yesterday
We take you back to 1967, to the three-day Monterey Pop Festival in California, which was kind of a precursor to the Woodstock Festival held in 1969. Monterey marked, among other things, the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Above, we give you Hendrix covering Bob Dylan’s anthem Like a Rolling [...]
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bestshill | 12/10/2009
Bob Dylan's OTHER Christmas Album (!!!) from Jim Linderman blog DULL TOOL DIM BULB in the Mid 1970's, around the time of Dylan's Blood on the Tracks album, tape traders and fans of bootleg records such as the Basement Tapes were frantic about a set of tracks rumored to be a Bob Dylan Christmas Album. It even had a title "Snow Over Interstate 80" and track listings. Not only that, it was rumored he...
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