New York Times (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Music critics’ lives don’t often inspire much fascination. But Robert Palmer, the chief popular music critic of The New York Times in the 1980s, was different.
Stereogum (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
San Diego quartet the Soft Pack were called the Muslims when we suggested you keep your eyes on them . They shifted the name, but their Strokes-esque Stooges-inspired post-punk rock 'n' roll remains the same (even when they go acoustic ). They reminded me of a preppy Richard Hell and the Voidoids when I first heard them... that's still there. Ditto a modern Modern Lovers. So what else shifted? The...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
In Episode 18 of Parlour to Parlour, Michael Fortes chats up Bill Spooner, former singer/guitarist and co-founder of the legendary San Francisco band The Tubes.
Inveresk Street Ingrate (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
'Another Girl, Another Planet' is so fucking overrated. Granted, it's a good song, but in no way does is it qualify as great. It's nothing more than the bastard cousin of Richard Hell doing the guest vocals on a Motors song. It's taken me 15 years to pluck up the courage to voice that opinion out loud. Even know, I expect Pitchfork to turn up at the front door with the . . . erm, pitchforks. Knowing...
Destination: Out (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
THESE FOOLISH THINGS GHOSTS BOUNCIN’ AROUND Marc Ribot Don’t Blame Me DIW : 1995 MR, guitar. Many thanks to all entrants in the contests we ran last week. The song is a duet between McCoy Tyner and Marc Ribot called “Improvisation #2.” Congratulations for recognizing the tune and players are due to: Bart White, in “(almost) jazzless Tampa” Bart was one of three to...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Punk rocker Jemina Pearl and her bandmates hang out at a record store, go to a concert and eat fried chicken in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
SoundsXP (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Fresh and Onlys: Grey-Eyed Girls The Fresh & Onlys, a five piece from San Francisco, are the latest in a line of lo-fi, primal rock’n’roll bands on Woodsist Records. This time the band’s USP is a sound that mixes garage-rock (the stinging fuzz of ‘Black Coffin’) and psych-pop from an outfit that has worked with Skygreen Leopards and Papercuts among others. You can...
Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
"5 UNDER 35" THE NEXT GENERATION OF FICTION WRITERS CELEBRATION KICKS OFF NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS WEEK IN DUMBO, BROOKLYN Hosted by Punk Rock Icon and Novelist Richard Hell, Novelist and MacArthur Fellow Jonathan Lethem to DJ New York, New York...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Indie Roundup, your weekly dose of what's happening (slightly) outside the mainstream . Deals . Via our friends at indieWIRE , we learn that Brian Baugh's faith-based To Save a Life will be released by Samuel Goldwyn Films in January 2010. The film follows an "all-American teen" boy dealing with the aftermath of a friend's death. Cross-cultural romantic drama Cairo Time , starring Patricia...
Sir Charlie Palmer (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
http://www.mediafire.com/?ybncmyt3jrg Tracklist: 1. So Messed Up (Peel Session) – The Damned, 2. Pushing Too Hard – The Seeds, 3. Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell – Iggy & The Stooges, 4. Horseplay (Wearier of the Schmaltz) – Eddie & The Hot Rods, 5. Neat Neat Neat (Peel Session) – The Damned, 6. Blank Geberation (EP Version) – Richard Hell & The Voidoids,...
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
1853 Arthur Rimbaud (d. November 10 , 1891), French poet ('Poésies'; 'Le bateau ivre'; Illuminations ) and lover of poet Paul Verlaine , who shot him and was sentenced to two years in prison. Rimbaud's main work was written in his youth; he published his first poem at age 16. Rimbaud wrote Une Saison en Enfer ( A Season in Hell ) in prose, widely regarded as one of the pioneering instances of...
TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Lester At CBGB, June '77 First 45, with Quine on guitar. Notice the autograph-- Lester hated the Cramps. I first met Lester Bangs via the telephone. I was a bored teenager. Growing up in South Florida in the early 70's, there weren't many people who liked the Stooges and the Velvet Underground. I read Creem and Rock Scene and zines like Who Put The Bomp, Back Door Man, Denim Delinquent, The Rock Marketplace,...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
The National Book Foundation announced its annual "5 Under 35" honorees this week. Ceridwen Dovey for "Blood Kin" (Viking, 2008), chosen by Rachel Kushner . C. E. Morgan for "All the Living" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), chosen by Christine Schutt . Lydia Peelle for "Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing" (HarperCollins, 2009), chosen by Salvatore Scibona...
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
Saladin captured Jerusalem in 1187. John Logie Baird performed the first test of a working greyscale television in 1925. Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei in 1928. Thurgood Marshall became the first black man to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States in 1967. And in 2006, five Amish girls were killed in their school house in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. They were;...
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