Salon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Elvis Costello chats up everyone from Lou Reed to Bill Clinton on his eclectic Sundance talk show, "Spectacle."
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
33 1/3 is a series of pocket-sized books, each volume focusing on a single album. This is the seventeenth installment of our attempt to read all 57 (and counting) of these things, and to scribble some impressions of each. As always, please keep in mind that it’s always just one writer’s opinion, often skewed, and [...]
Matsie For the Win! (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-30) : Amos Lee Kimya Dawson The Grates The Velvet Underground Jonathan Coulton Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Lissy Trullie is a musician based in New York City. Having played around with various lineups in the last couple of years, in 2008 she solidified her band. The past few months have seen her compelling songwriting and on point live performances steadily gain attention and fans around the city ...
Mobtown Shank (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
by Benn RayI have an extraordinarily high threshold for annoying music. In fact, I kind of like it.To give you an idea, a friend once bet me I couldn't sit through Lou Reed's "Sister Ray" played 5 times in a...
Velvet Underground's Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Sunday 30th of November, Velvet Underground participate to the Charity Bazaar.It was a big day, but with a lot of fun, smiles and happy customers! Funny to show you the differents steps of this day ! Beginning of the installation at 6.30 a.m. Everything is ready at 9.00 a.m ! Velvet Underground team, with beautiful aprons. At the lunch time, [...]
music like dirt (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Ryan (StopMe): I’ve just finished reading Bryan Talbot’s engrossing ‘Alice In Sunderland’ (Nice how it syncs up in part’s with Channel 4’s unmissable current drama about the English Civil War called ‘The Devil’s Whore’) and I’m now fully ceased of the idea that Sunderland is ...
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
BEING clueless doesn’t often prove an advantage in journalism, but as CityLife catches up with The Shortwave Set’s co-frontman and guitarist Andy Pettitt, ignorance is our edge.
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
But oh, what wonderful details those are, and what treasures they ultimately provide when listening to Murmur with an informed ear. Murmur was many things that were decidedly uncool in 1983. It was a pop album trading in guitars instead of synths; a punk album with hardcore social ties that was distributed by the majors and sounded soft; a vocals-heavy album where no one could understand what the fuck...
Velvet Underground's Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
All you want to know about Velvet Underground is inside :
COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Much is written of the late Andy Warhol. Too much, you might argue. And while the newest pair of titles cover some of the same well-trodden ground, they limit their focus to one specific aspect of the eclectic artist's career. "Warhol Live" and "Andy Warhol: The Record Covers, 1949-1987"&mdashboth published by Prestel&mdashexplore the Pop artist's relationship with the music and bands he loved and...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Here we have selections from an archived mix from 2004. Everest - Ani DiFranco Fly - Nick Drake Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground Say Yes - Elliott Smith How To Fight Loneliness - Wilco Lost Cause - Beck Amy - Ryan Adams Northern Sky - Nick Drake Lullabye - Emitt Rhodes Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan Time Will Tell - Bob Marley I [...]
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Are fearsome female snipers, known as white tights, shooting at Russian troops? (Or could I just not resist having a blog post title that obliquely refers to an obscure Velvet Underground song)
PopWreckoning (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
In the show “Keys to the VIP”, a panel of four “pickup experts” sits back and watches as two guys are sent into a club and given seduction challenges. They might have to just get a sexy picture with a girl or they might need to get a phone number; stuff like that. If you [...]
The Useless Tree (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
I have never been a fan of Guns n' Roses. They hit when I was a struggling assistant professor, too busy with my academic work to concern myself with new rock bands. And having been influenced by earlier bands, like...
