Johnny Marr: "The Smiths" and the Art of Gun-Slinging: "The Smiths" and the Art of Gun-Slinging
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
For three albums, the Cribs — twin brothers Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger bro Ross — kept things familial on their way to becoming a buzz band in their native England. But for their fourth album Ignore the Ignorant, the U.K. indie trio welcomed a big non-Jarman name as a formal member, recruiting [...]
Splat! (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Honest to God, I haven’t seen many shirts that reek of as much lurid pomposity a this T-shirt worn by the former Smith’s front-man, Steven…
design is mine : isn't it lovely? (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Phew, what a weekend. So much family and so much food- it was great, but I am ready for a more restful week. Did everyone, especially folks in the states, enjoy their weekend/holiday? I hope so... Anyways, I am starting out this week with the oh-so wonderful music of one of my all-time favorite bands, The Smiths . Because, really, there are few better ways to start a Monday.
MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend is not just about gluttony and football (though it is mostly about that). For many, it's the official opening of the Christmas shopping season. In fact, the day after Thanksgiving has become known as "Black Friday" because of the crowds, traffic and stress caused by the huge sales that retailers roll [...]
Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
50 MJ Hibbett & The Validators - Regardez, Ecoutez Et Repetez No disrespect here, but this feels like a natural number 50. When we wrote about the bard of Peterborough's shot across the bows of the idea that only the young have anything to say about live as the narrator lives it, we speculated that his work is not easy to review in the same context as the rest of the pop nonsense we drivel on about....
THE VINYL VILLAIN (Free subscription) | yesterday
OK folks....you need to indulge me a fair bit over the next few postings. I'm off on holiday for 11 nights....to somewhere far away where it is sunny and warm. And I don't intend to check in on-line all that often and see how the blog is doing in my absence. And I've decided to be really lazy while I'm away and do 11 posts of two songs each, all taken from a CD album called The Indie Scene 1986 that...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Cranberries weren’t one of the most influential bands of the 1990s but what they lacked in artistic sway, they more than made up for with hit singles and album sales. The Irish band spent a lot of time on the charts in 1993-96 by fusing their appreciation for various ’80s bands (the Cure, the Smiths, R.E.M., Blondie, U2) into accessible, edgy songs. This fall, the band ended...
Some Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dylan In The Movies is the working name of multi-instrumentalist, singer & songwriter Brian Sullivan. From Boston, DITM released their debut EP in 2006 and have a full length arriving in 2010 on American Laundromat Records with guests the Watson Twins and Tanya Donelly. File under moody orch-pop with a tip of the hat to The Smiths, American Music Club & The National. Nostalgia, loss, hopeless...
Grazia Fashion (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Here at Grazia Daily, we’ll admit to loving Morrissey a little bit too much. Recent dramas aside (collapsing on stage and being rushed to hospital, walking off stage after a bottle hit him in the face, suggesting suicide is ‘honourable’ while appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. etc), Moz remains the hero our teenage years (fyi: our favourite recent discovery is a club...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Photos by Chris Oberholtz/The Star The Cranberries weren't one of the most influential bands of the 1990s but what they lacked in artistic sway and they more than made up for with hit singles and album sales. Born in the era when the notion of alternative music went mainstream, the Irish band spent a lot of time on the charts in 1993-96 by fusing their appreciation for various '80s bands (the Cure,...
Glorious Noise (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Members of Crowded House, Wilco, the Smiths, and Radiohead get together and record an album for charity.
9-9 (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl. The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'. The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Former frontman of the Smiths proves that heaven knows he's happier now For all his talk of suicide and sadness, the famously miserable Morrissey sounded strangely contented on Desert Island Discs today. "If you reach 50 and are not at one with yourself then you're in serious trouble," he told the BBC Radio 4 programme. The former lead singer of the Smiths chose a selection of records dominated...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
from the desert island? The answer: not a great deal. Sure, he was witty at times, but he treated every attempt at introducing depth to the conversation with his usual flippancy. Considering that he thought he had achieved some wisdom at the age of fifty,and was a different person from his younger self, the themes of his answers were entirely redolent of those he regularly expressed in the NME twenty-odd...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
Morrissey, the prince of gloomy pop – whose songs of doomed romance and disappointment have touched generations of misfits – reveals today that, aged 50, he is finally at peace with himself.
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