I did my second turn at the Vauxhall Griffin's Sunday Supplement last weekend. More or less, here's what I played over four and a bit hours. Charlie Brown Theme – Vince Guaraldi I Had To Tell You – 13th Floor Elevators Life On Mars – John Keating No. 1. (Lent Et Douloureux) – Isan Ocean Rain – Echo & The Bunnymen Rainy Day – Susan Christie I Can't Wait Until...
A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore. The result: “Nashville Or Bust,” a series of essays about seminal country artists. After 52 entries, Rabin plans to travel south and explore some of country music’s most hallowed landmarks...
even as the original line-up is whittled away (they’ve never really been the same since cederlund jumped ship for disfear) and they record and tour less and less frequently and the rock and roll shit is sloughed off for a return to their harsher death roots, this swedish collective are still one of my allfuckingtime [...]
Arcade Fire’s partially re-recorded version of “Wake Up” pulled on all of our heartstrings recently in the Where The Wild Things Are trailer, but the song isn’t actually in the film, you see, nor is it on Karen O and the Kids’ official soundtrack. No worries, though, director Spike Jonze feels your pain: The trailer version of “Wake Up” and 19 other jams are...
Spike Jonze has a present for you. It’s a mixtape called We Love You So (which is also the name of his sweet blog ). I haven’t listened to it yet, so I can’t tell you where it falls on the quirk-o-meter, but I do know that it includes the stripped down version of Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up” that was playing in the Where The Wild Things Are trailer. I know I’ve...
Not an accident song, though maybe it was an accident that got her there. Penned and sung by Lee Hazlewood, I've had this in my collection for ages, but it wasn't until someone brought up "Rebel Rouser" at work the other day that I remembered. I sure do love a good crime tale. Read more and dl here.
It’s somewhat of a double-edged sword for anyone brave enough to be romantically entangled with Roger Quigley (who trades solo as At Swim Two Birds and also under a band umbrella as one of The Montgolfier Brothers). On the one hand, a Quigley relationship is pre-destined to end in an emotional cataclysm, to be deconstructed in painful detail just a few notches down from the indiscreetly lurid...
Just when you thought you’d witnessed it all on a fashion catwalk. With apologies to the Lee Hazlewood song, sung by Nancy Sinatra, These boots were made for walking. Alexander McQueen's tall order: Towering 12-inch boots on a Paris catwalk...
My reader (maybe the only one!) Private Beech suggested that I add a Great Duos to the recent blogs listing Great Female Singers and Great Girl Groups. Sounds like a good idea to me, so here is a list of the great duos of the 1950s and 1960s. I've included some duet pairings by established singers, but only where they made a real impact via one or two albums, not just one offs. To kick off, here are...
[Clockwise, from top left] 1. Grapes. Easy enough. Everybody put your hands together for noble rot! 2. Crushing. Because everything looks even more delicious when it's oozing through the end of a pool hose. 3. Barrels. Made almost exclusively by...
THE Codeine Velvet Club first convened publicly less than two weeks ago in a former porn cinema off Argyle Street in Glasgow. The venue, now better known as the Classic Grand,
I'm always in the market for Spotify Playlists but as far as I'm concerned a selection that's longer than 25 tracks is not a selection at all. It's audio fly tipping. And people who put whole albums on playlists should have their memberships revoked. To combat this let's try a four-song playlist following this strict plan (with my examples). Something old : Yes doing Paul Simon's America. Something...
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