Corrieblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The answer is that they all own a Hilda Ogden! To be precise, a silk screen print of her done in an Andy Warhol style by Liverpool artist David Knopov.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Anavan: "Boom" [mp3] from Cover Story (out November 11th) other Anavan posts at Largehearted Boy Annuals: "Confessor" [mp3] from Such Fun other Annuals posts at Largehearted Boy Au Revoir Simone: “Lark (Ruff And Jam’s...
Sound On The Sound (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Black Whales at REVERBFest 2008 ::: Photo by Abbey It’s a shame we’ve missed out on the Black Whales for these last few years. We rolled into the musty Salmon Bay Eagles following a short diversion to grab an o’so delicious Red Velvet cupcake from Cupcake Royale and were instantly regretting we hadn’t arrived earlier. [...]
JamsBio (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
If ’77 was the year punk rockers challenged the status quo, 1978—the year after punk—was a more complicated time. Here's Part 1 in a series surveying 5 albums from this crucial year.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Rambling Boy has earned legendary bassist Charlie Haden his best-selling debut in over half a century of making music. The album ranked #2 on Billboard's bluegrass chart, and landed in the overall Top 100, as well as riding near the top on Amazon's bestsellers all week...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
concert photos by Chris La Putt, backstage shots by Kyle Dean Reinford DOWNLOAD: Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (MP3) "It was a great show with a nice mix of songs from Rabbit Fur Coat & Acid Tongue and I have...
This Is This (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Not another post about me, no. Arf. But I have to chip in with my 79p to say a few words about Itunes’s Genius feature. What is basically does is creates a playlist around one song. It does this using the vast database at Apple which contains information about the song, then matches it to another [...]
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
When Elvis Costello launched "Friend of the Devil" during his performance Sunday at Lindley Meadow, the ghost of the Grateful Dead hovered over the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. A sea of people overflowed the shady gully into John F....
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Financier Warren Hellman opened his eighth annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park on the main stage Saturday, telling a story about recovering a prized banjo 30 years after he lost it, and then picking some with a few other musicians. "...
Live Music Blog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Rogue Wave - “Lullaby” [MySpace Transmissions] Rogue Wave is the latest artist to record a session for MySpace Transmissions, a stripped-down MTV Unplugged like show that has been featuring really fantastic artists over the course of it’s relative short live life. Rogue Wave - MySpace Transmissions [zip] Here’s the press release: MYSPACE TRANSMISSIONS TO FEATURE ROGUE WAVE: [...]
slacktivist (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
"U.S. Forces," Midnight Oil "Ultra Violet (Light My Way)," U2 "Umbrella," Rihanna "Umbrella," Manic Street Preachers "Un Gars Fragile," Prototypes "The Unattainable Earth," Daniel Amos "The Unattainable Earth (remix)," Daniel Amos "Uncomplicated," Elvis Costello & The Attractions "Uncovered," The Call...
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Following Under The Blacklight’s retro AOR sound which brought Fleetwood Mac’s classic period to mind, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis has turned her attention back to her solo work and unleashes her Acid Tongue on this new release. It seems Lewis has turned back up on a dusty back road, dealing in the kind of gritty [...]
BTC News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
It’s a story that would easily fit on these pages, so I won’t call it long, just private. The conclusion to it is me making a CD for someone I met through the Junior League of Los Angeles. If you know me, and you know the Junior League, you will understand how utterly fucken unlikely [...]
Ryan's Smashing Life (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
SOUNDBOARD QUALITY RECORDING: Elvis Costello will always be one of our favorites. Along with all of his fantastic songs through the years, Costello's biggest impact may be on his peers - the other musicians and bands in your music collection. Today's Selection: This really cool Elvis Costello set was recorded with the Attractions at Winterland in San Francisco, CA on June 7, 1978. The 30 year-old...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The Jenny Lewis audience, it seems, doesn't travel well. After selling out more than her share of Center City shows both as a solo act and as lead singer for indie-rock band Rilo Kiley, the former child actress and sharp-edged songwriter played at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on Wednesday to a house that was more than half-empty.
