DCist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Every so often a songwriter emerges who captures something about the city he calls home. Elliot Smith was as Portland as fixies and strollers. There is something free and unmistakably flyover about Omaha, Nebraska's Conor Oberst. Kurt Vile -- who finished a tour to support his latest record (and first release on Matador Records), Childish Prodigy , at the Black Cat on Thursday -- is making his claim...
A Pint of Unionist Lite (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another weekend musical treat from the far end of the spectrum to last week's trip to Scarborough Fayre. Today's tune, "Youth against Fascism (It's the song I hate)" by Sonic Youth doesn't actually deliver what the title appears to be offering. Instead it's a clever dig at those who don't bother moving outside the cliched to express their fashionable and often manufactured outrage and anger...
The Apathist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lots as I'm making up for lost time. Message To Bears - Autumn (Electronic/Minimal/Repetitive to the point of banal but so good to work to...) The Gentlemen Losers - Ballad of Sparrow Young (Quiet Western Twanging - at around 1m34s, I want to live in Texas and serve peach pie to cowboys in a diner) Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds (Words, drone, drums, guitars. Music) American Ananlog Set - Choir...
DIVA INCARNATE (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
119. Wishing I Was There - Natalie Imbruglia (UK #19, Aus #24, Ger #68) With this her 3rd of 4 top 20s from the same album, she wishes it were 1998 again. 120. I Can't Help Myself – Lucid (UK #7) 121. No Tendo Dinero - Lose Umbrellos (UK #33, US #42, Ita #4) 123. You're Still The One - Shania Twain (UK #10, US #2, Aus #1) I don't think we quite knew what Shania had up her sleave when this was...
Dead Flowers: Anglophiles Anonymous (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Forgive me Blogger, for I have sinned. I know I've dismissed, unfairly at times, a lot of music in the past few months--I can't help it, it's in my nature. I also know that I've failed to write about the small amount of music I actually have liked--surely no way for a hobbyist critic with delusions of grandeur to act. So here, without further ado, are some reviews... Mew--No More Stories... Mew have...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The AV Club : Jim O’Rourke is a storied musician and producer who has cut something of a Zelig-like figure in indie music in the 1990s and 2000s. He came up with the prescient avant-folk group Gastr Del Sol, made numerous records full of drones and noise, and played crucial roles in such big bands as Wilco (he helped conceive Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and Sonic Youth (he was temporarily a fifth...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News The talents of Sonic Youth 's Thurston Moore and singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright aren't just limited to music. Moore and Wainwright have contributed to " Cold Water ," an exhibition featuring visual art created by performers from New York's "East Village, downtown, CBGB's" scene. The event, curated by singer-songwriter Justin Bond and New...
Oreo Cookie Blues (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hey, just a quick hello .. not much going on other then I am not posting. Though my 80 gig IPod died a horrible death, had to start using my wifes 8gig Nano. With music size does matter! I've entered a Globe & Mail contest to win a chance to be a photographer at the 2010 winter olyimpics in Vancouver . If you can take the time to vote I would appreciate it. The following is the origional and four...
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
It has been a big year for Sonic Youth. The band's sixteenth studio album, The Eternal (TMT Review), came out this summer on their new label, Matador. In April, a song on which they collaborated with Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones was used in a new piece by the prestigious Merce Cunningham Dance Company. And — perhaps most importantly — Sonic Youth also appeared on Gossip Girl, the ultra-stylish,...
BuddyTV (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
What is it called when a once-hit TV show about an omniscient blogger who makes and breaks reputations through the power of her scandal reports finds itself suffering from a lack of buzz from the real-life blogosphere, and a lack of interest from the public? That's right, you might call it "irony". Unless you're in the Gossip Girl camp, in which case you should call it a "big, fat problem."...
Rock on the Streets (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Sonic Youth have announced additional dates for their forthcoming U.S. tour. The band are set to kick off the jaunt on November 21 in New York before taking a short break and returning in January for a string of dates. Among the shows announced are dates in Brooklyn, San Diego, and Los Angeles. Sonic Youth Tour dates: New York, NY Terminal 5 (Nov 21) Boston, MA Wilbur Theatre (22, 23) Brooklyn, NY...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Jim O’Rourke is a storied musician and producer who has cut something of a Zelig-like figure in indie music in the 1990s and 2000s. He came up with the prescient avant-folk group Gastr Del Sol, made numerous records full of drones and noise, and played crucial roles in such big bands as Wilco (he helped conceive Yankee Hotel Foxtrot ) and Sonic Youth (he was temporarily a fifth member of the...
Beneath the Trap Door (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
For some reason on my commute home last night, I became nostalgic and started thinking of some of the best concerts I've seen. So here, in the best chronological order I can remember, are some of my favorite concerts from the past. I may be a bit fuzzy with some of the years (hey, I'm 41!) but I'll do my best. 1983/84 The Suburbs, Love is the Law tour, at the Mayo Civic auditorium in Rochester, MN....
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Photographer Michael Lavine’s got a new book called Grunge, featuring an essay by Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and a whole bunch of excellent photographs of the Seattle music scene from the 80s and 90s, many of which are fresh even to those of us who were around at the time and all of which are [...]
Matablog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Filmore date in bold below. Tickets are going faster than Usain Bolt’s pet cheetah (who to be fair, is locked up) Sat-Nov-21 New York, NY Terminal 5 * (SOLD OUT) Sun-Nov-22 Boston, MA Wilbur Theatre ** Mon-Nov-23 Boston, MA Wilbur Theatre *** Tue-Nov-24 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg + (SOLD OUT) Wed-Nov-25 Brooklyn, NY Music [...]
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