Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Alex Gladwell: free and legal Fantasia album download [mp3] other Alex Gladwell posts at Largehearted Boy Bifrost Arts: "I Sought the Lord" [mp3] from http://www.greatcomfortrecords.com/music.php?releaseID=1 Bifrost Arts: "Come O Spirit" [mp3] from Come O...
Pop Tarts Suck Toasted (Free subscription) | yesterday
Later this week I'll be celebrating my 29th birthday, it's not a milestone year or something I'm particularly looking forward to turning (though I'm seeing the Pixies to celebrate it), it's just the natural order of things me aging and whatnot. Back in 1981, mere months after I was born, the early stages of Sonic Youth were being set. Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo were just meeting and the history...
SFist (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce , providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter . While things slow down a bit with the holiday there are still a number of solid choices this week with Friendly Fires/The xx at The Independent tonight (sadly sold out), Ghostly International's Deastro with Max Tundra at Bottom...
mel.opho.be (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
J. Tillman took the stage at the Middle East Upstairs for a late show on Sunday night. But then again, it was only 8pm in Seattle, the west-coast town that this drummer from Fleet Foxes calls home. The performance was a family affair, with J. Tillman’s brother Zach opening as a solo act called Pearly Gates Music . Zach Tillman offered us a stripped-down version of his already sparse style: leaving...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
[Click for larger image.] I was lucky enough to see Black Flag play live a number of times in the '80s, around the time Glen E. Friedman shot the photo that graces this book's cover. I was an underage teen sneaking into grownup punk clubs, high on moshpit fumes (and, truth be told, lots else). The band, and that subculture that surrounded them, changed my life. Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
So even Devo now is into this play-a-classic-album-in-its-entirety thing: They're at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza Friday (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!) and Saturday (Freedom of Choice...
the central shaft (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Glenn's Biography Lesson No. 1 was Branca’s first release in which he delved more fully into instrumental sounds that melded the dissonant rock of his former outfits with the heavy, massed sounds that he would later explore with groups of anywhere between ten and a hundred guitarists. Originally issued on 99 Records in 12” format, Lesson No. 1 contained two songs, one on each side. This...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Talk Normal, a local punk duo, opens for Sonic Youth at the Music Hall of Williamsburg tonight. For more information, call 718-486-5400 ...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
New York-based singer Joe Hurley collaborated with National Book Award winner Colum McCann to write "The House that Horse Built" (Let the Great World Spin), a 12-minute track inspired by a chapter in McCann's novel, Let the Great World Spin. The limited edition CD was produced by Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Pete Yorn, Nancy Sinatra, Hunter S. Thompson) and is currently available for download...
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
THURSDAY Dirty Projectors @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Exploding Brooklyn rock band are playing at the Williamsburg Music Hall for the weekend. Oh yes, there will be hipster. Miss G Train Pageant @ City Reliquary Museum (Brooklyn) — 7 p.m. Kaela profiled the Miss G Train competition a few weeks ago, and now the pageant is finally ending. You’ll [...]
Thrasher's Wheat (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
For those that experienced Neil Young's 1991 Weld tour with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion, it was one of the loudest concerts of all time.While this poll isn't for loudest concert, the folks at Madison Square Garden are running a poll for "100 Best: Vote Down to the Greatest Garden Show of All Time”.And Neil Young and Crazy Horse's February 1991 show is in the running. So folks can play...
Einstein Music Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ride The Frightening Grooms (née Muggabears) from Brooklyn create the kind of hedonistic fantasy grunge that Sonic Youth and Pavement did in their heyday, combining powerful, churning guitar lines and intelligent basslines merging blissfully in a mélange of shimmering, powdery drums and whiny adolescent vocals. ‘Dreamsucker’ is an immediate favourite, with its glistening guitar...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
NYU Steinhardt 34 Stuyvesant Street, 212.998.5799 East Village / Lower East Side November 21 - November 21, 2009 Opening: Saturday, November 21, 4 - 10 PM Web Site When: Sat, Nov 21, 4-9:30pm Where: 34 Stuyvesant St. (just East of E9th St & 3rd Ave), East Village, NY 4-5 PM : Visiting Artist Lecture by Jeffrey Vallance 5-8 PM : MFA Open Studios 8-9:30 PM : Videos/Audio from the Fales Collection...
Fabsugar (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Who can forget rad rockster Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth? We all know she's a musical prodigy, but did you know she's also a talented artist? Marni did. That's why the brand collaborated with Kim to create this exclusive Marni Kim Gordon Print Balloon Bag ($1,000). I love the balloon shape; in fact, I own a patent brown version and wear it almost every day. Money aside, would you wear this artsy bag?...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Playing live - sending out emails ... "Forget nostalgia, The Yardbirds have stayed true to their ethic of live experimentation and vicious energy. The Yardbirds paved the way for the Electric Prunes, Doors, Zeppelin, Sabbath, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, and Public Enemy. And they still know how to have a rave-up.” Joy Division and Public Enemy? Who knew?
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