It's always fun to compare originals and covers, and even more so when we're talking Bonnie Prince Billy. The lion from Louisville has always been keen on interpreting the songs of other musicians - check out a most fascinating list here - and the results are nearly always interesting to say the least. Below's a first batch of cool ones, and there's more on the way. John Phillips - Someone's Sleeping Bonnie Prince Billy - Someone's Sleeping E.C. Ball & Orna Ball [...]
Black Cab Sessions is a great tv show in the UK that features musicians performing in the back seat of a moving taxi. It's coming to the US soon, too!
Will Oldham was back in Ireland last week, and stopped off at the Opera House in Cork.
Fresh off the release of last year's Wolfroy Goes to Town and his own coffee, Bonnie "Prince" Billy has announced a new single, Time To Be Clear , with two b-sides, "Whipped" and "Out-of-Mind". The single drops on February 28th via Drag City. Read our Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Wolfroy Goes to Town Review . Will you be picking up the new single?
When not selling his own brand of coffee , Bonnie "Prince" Billy takes time out to record the 100th episode of Black Cab Sessions . In this edition of the long-running series, he performs Wolfroy Goes To Town cut "Black Captain" and childrens' song " My Nurse Smells Like Coconuts ." Watch below. Read More...
Video: Bonnie "Prince" Billy Black Cab Session Will Oldham, Cairo Gang's Emmett Kelly, Angel Olsen, and Ben Boye packed into a London taxi for the 100th episode of Black Cab Sessions, taking on a pair of somewhat diametrically opposed tunes: children's song "My Nurse Smells Like Coconuts" and a more world-weary cut off their new album, Wolfroy Goes To Town. Given the intimate feel of that LP, the close-knit harmonies and patient pace of "Black Captain" fit this setting like a glove. Check it out above (Bonnie's jumpy reaction to the siren [...]
"I make a lot of coffee," James Murphy told NY Mag in an interview after the movie's premiere. "For my birthday, my girlfriend got me a training course with the world champion. That's what I'm going to do when I get back to London." Yet another one! Joining Wilco, David Lynch , Bonnie 'Prince' Billy , and Starfucker in the coffee business is former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy. [...]
"You moved in slow degrees/A sudden memory/You're a Leonard Cohen song" - Better Than Ezra, "Under You" "But I was caught, like a fleeting thought / Stuck inside Leonard Cohen's mind" - Mercury Rev, "A Drop In Time" "Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld / So I can sigh eternally" - Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea" It's almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen , the singer. A well-regarded poet from the late [...]
Bonnie "Prince" Billy has his own Kona coffee blend. I shit you not. Apparently the "special edition" coffee is selling for $20 at Drag City ( bummed you guys didn't send me some to review ), so pick it up before it's all gone. Besides the special blend of coffee, Bonnie "Prince" Billy has a new album currently available -- Wolfroy Goes To Town . Be sure to check it out and listen to it with a mug of Billy's Kona coffee. Read more »
Disney caused a stir earlier this week when they announced they were selling Mickey Mouse tee-shirts inspired by the cover of Joy Division's classic 1979 album Unknown Pleasures . As soon as Disney got wind of the rumblings throughout the music community over the odd juxtaposition of images/commercialization of the iconic album cover, they quickly pulled the shirt from their Internet store . If you're worried you missed out on your chance to get a hold of the shirt, however, fear not; Pitchfork has directed readers to eBay , where [...]
Trembling Bells The Trembling Bells with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy UK tour commences April/May 2012. It presents the Trembling Bells playing, singing and duelling with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, performing a new collection of songs written by the Trembling Bells some of which appear on the forthcoming collaborative album 'The Marble Downs', out on Honest Jon's on April 9th with a taster EP slated for release before this. This will be the first time [...]
It's nothing on the level of Disney's still-inexplicable Joy Division T-shirt , but it's still a nice little curiosity to keep on your shelf: avant-folk iconoclast Will Oldham now has his own blend of coffee. Bonnie "Prince" Billy's Bonny Billy Blend Kona Rose Coffee is now for sale at the Drag City website . At $20 for a half-pound, the price is a bit steep. But the Drag City website does say that the organic blend does have "overtones of chocolate, leather and non-wacky tobaccy," which sounds pretty good. I can't even think of a remotely effective Bonnie [...]
I do love me some Squidbillies . In fact, I love everything about the show except that it's on in the middle of the night when my old ass is hard at slumber. Anyway, if you're a fan of the show, you know damn well that the music is dazzling. And not only do you get twisted original songs performed by the show's voice talent (Unknown Hinson anyone?), but the creators have somehow managed to wrangle more than their fair share of bona fide musical celebs over the years, including such [...]
Don't ask me why I used a picture of Wayne and Garth on this post I just... well the roadies in their movies were the most memorable, and this post is about touring and stuff, and I couldn't find a picture of a Wayne's World roadie quickly so I thought fuck it. Anyhow, two bits of news: Meursault are touring the UK and Europe as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's main support. Rob St. John is playing SHHH Festival and opening for Bonnie Prince Billy in Oxford [...]
Here are my obtuse meanderings vis-a-vis the best records of the year. Please forgive my inanity. 11. Let's Wrestle – Nursing Home Nouveau '90s rock was to 2011 what dance punk revivalism was to 2001. And of all the bands channeling classic slackercore this year, Let's Wrestle did it the best. 10. Russian Circles – Empros I'll be honest, I'm not a huge fan of instrumental rock — particularly metal. After all, it usually involves more noodling than a Pauls [...]
Voila the third part of our 2011 selection with free tracks from Future Classic's New Navy and Convaire, Laura Gibson, Inspired and the Sleep and Cocosuma and wonderful videos by the Swedish band Delaykliniken, the girl duo Boy, a Hamburg- Zürich cooperation, stunning Peaches covering Franz Ferdinand, Drew Smith and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Free Mp3: Inspired and the Sleep - While We're Young Free [...]
Well, it's been one of those years. For one reason or another, my record searching out ability, and time or inclination to sit down and write something about records, has been seriously curtailed this year. And so it seems appropriate that the first two records in my list weren't even released this year. So it goes. The Obligatory Album From Last Year That I Only Heard This Year Cotton Jones - Tall Hours In The Glowstream Tipped off by the marvellous Song, [...]
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