PopMatters Music (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
You shouldn't need more convincing of the quality of Picnic than the knowledge that Cineplexx is joined by Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and members of Jad Fair and BMX Bandits.
DJ Martian's Page (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
New issue of The Wire is a politics and music themed issue. On the cover: Ultra-Red - Mark Fisher talks experimental music and radical politics with the multinational audio activists. Other features include interviews with Trevor Watts, Ghédalia Tazartès, Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair's Invisible Jukebox, Dusk & Blackdown, Aleks Kolkowski, Allora & Calzadilla in Cross Platform, Global Ear from Beijing,...
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Cracker: 2008-07-25, Superior [mp3,ogg,flac] "100 Flower Power Girl" [mp3] other Cracker posts at Largehearted Boy fIREHOSE: 1987-11-08, Cambridge [mp3,ogg,flac] "For the Lead Singer of REM" [mp3] other fIREHOSE posts at Largehearted Boy Gomez: 2008-07-05,...
The Indie Credential (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
I’ve never seen what all the fuss is about Daniel Johnston. Granted, I haven’t really made an effort to listen to the guy, apart from seeing the film “The Devil And Daniel Johnston” in which his music takes a backseat to his sad decline into serious mental illness. It was his “friends” on this outing [...]
nialler9 (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Photo from Flickr by kaotage. I was aware that two special shows were to take place in Whelans and were to feature Daniel Johnston, Mark Linous of Sparklehorse, Scout Niblett, James McNew of Yo La Tengo, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair and Bob Sluggett of Half Japanese. When Daniel played Vicar Street [...]
The Indie Credential (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Just a couple of particularly noteworthy gigs this week, both of which we shall be attending and reporting on in due course. First up is The B-52’s who play the Academy on Tuesday. In the admittedly small list of bands I haven’t seen live but really want to, The B-52’s are riding high near the [...]
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Coming soon: an online digital library of music that will allow music fans, webcasters and podcasters to listen, download, and stream for free, with no restrictions, registration or fees. And it will all be legal. The Free Music Archive is being directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America, and is funded by a grant from the New York State Music Fund. We take inspiration for...
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
in post Jad Fair Handles Them WFMU Snakes (mp3) from WFMU's Beware of the Blog .
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
The prolific Jad Fair whipped out an mp3 for the Free Music Archive that I thought I should share with you all. The song mentions listening to WFMU. I imagine it is a tribute to the effects of prolonged listening....
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Sitting on a beach or by the pool with a guide to summer reading, but no advice on what's rocking the Latin music world? Look no further. Here are a few albums that could make this a summer to remember.
WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
WFMU presents Selected Sounds from the Free Music Archive vol. 1. This compilation previews 21 of the thousands of tracks that’ll be freely available under Creative Commons licenses when the fully interactive Free Music Archive website launches this November. We’re...
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
What better time for a crush than the summer? While everyone else is out hitting the beach in search of some hotted up and clichéd fun, why not spend some time feverishly hunched over your keyboard seeking out the thrill of discovering new sounds? This edition of the Crush Band round-up is devoted to the twee-est, snappiest, poppiest groups of the summer.
The Plummet Onions (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
If you’re in London on July 25th and you’re interested in seeing a heartfelt, raw, outsider musical performance then you should go watch Daniel Johnston perform at the indigO2 (although being “supported & backed by Sparklehorse, Scout Niblett, James McNew of Yo La Tengo, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair of Half [...]
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Official website Official fansite Digital download site 06.19.08 - New Haven, CT - Toads $ 06.20.08 - Brooklyn, NY - Warsaw $ 06.21.08 - Providence, RI - Lupo's $ 06.22.08 - Philadelphia, PA - Popped Festival 06.23.08 - Richmond, VA - The National # 06.24.08 - Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel # 06.25.08 - Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom # 06.26.08 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse # 07.18.08 - Stockholm,...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 22/05/2008
DOWNLOAD: Daniel Johnston - Honey I Sure Miss You (MP3) Once upon a time, way back 1993, Daniel Johnston painted a large mural of a frog known as Jeremiah the Innocent (which is a Three Dog Night song) on the...
