Winding down from a two year anniversary tour that celebrated the Pixies ' 1989 sophomore album Doolittle , frontman Black Francis , aka Frank Black , has been putting the finishing touches on a Frank Black & The Catholics complete box set. That's not all, though, either. Francis will also release a collaborative album with musician Reid Paley, entitled Paley & Francis. The Catholics box set will include all six of the band's studio albums, as well as rare digital-only tracks from their 2006 compilations [...]
"The only way to write is well," A.J. Liebling says, "and how you do it is your own damn business." Okay, A.J., fair enough. But how do you account for Jana Pruden 's column in the Leader-Post ? I knew Jana when I was at the L-P, and I've known her husband Evan since I was in high school. They are both smart, hip, funny, even sassy. They are both very nice people. So why does Jana's column in general, and her most recent one specifically , bug me so much? Because it's [...]
Image From Here Well, if there is one vice I have it would have to be smoking. I am a one pack a day kind of guy. I started smoking seriously late in life. Approximately 9 years ago, I started when I was going through my divorce. Looking back, I really don't know why I started the nasty habit. But I did. And now I am addicted to nicotine and can't go a day without it. I went for two months without smoking last year when I was in the hospital. But, the day I [...]
Who says Derek Jeter doesn't have a sense of humor. This was his response to a reporter who was "critical" of his lack of answers about his personal life and said he had to ask and what was he supposed to tell his editor. Song: Loose Artist: Therapy? Album: Infernal Love Comments: This album marks the point where I stopped buying albums by Therapy?. Apparently they were trying to attain a more marketable sound. Oddly enough this song reminds me of another "hard" band that took a detour in the late [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive Spinner.com : On Art Brut's early favorite 'Moving to L.A.,' frontman Eddie Argos dreamed of drinking 'Hennessey with Morrissey.' Instead, Argos is enjoying some Willamette Valley Pinot Noir with Black Francis, who is producing the British band's third album --... Read more
Jack Shephard grows his beard out to the Pixies song, "Gouge Away."
Fans know that His Kingly Cave , from Devil's Workshop, is about a visit to Graceland with a head full of shroom: It's about a trip that I took to Graceland many years ago. I thought it would be fun to take hallucinogenic mushrooms while I was there. I was much younger than I am now. It's not something I would really do now. I was young and dumb and I went to Graceland with my girlfriend and we took mushrooms and it was a horrible and tense day. That's a [...]
I remember picking up a promo copy of Show Me Your Tears at CDepot in College Park, MD, a few weeks before it was released, for something like five bucks. I felt a little dirty about the whole affair - here I was, driving home with an advance copy cd of something I planned on buying anyway, hole punched in the UPC and "Not For Sale" stamped on the cover, with the realization that this was a noir heart-on-sleeve classic set in a beautiful rock and country framework, with some of the best [...]
I could not pray I felt so dog gone Couldn't get no witness but I did not know Then a voice in a whisper said you've got to carry it on Why carry "it" on, why not just "carry on"? Carry what on? And whose whisper? The narrator's? And the news is gonna break And the news is gonna break Yeah, your noose is gonna break when I am there No Paris No Nepal No Barstow Won't be none of them at all [...]
At 11:57:30 PM on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam surrendered to an angry wall of water that swept up and killed over 500 people, as it sought its path to the ocean. The chief engineer of the dam-building project, William Mulholland, helplessly observed the damage upstream from high ground the morning after the disaster. Mulholland is the man Frank Black (a.k.a. Black Francis ) refers to in the first verse: There was a well known water master man He was the king He could do anything The St. Francis Dam disaster [...]
Between now and the end of this year, I'll be posting one Frank Black song per day. These are a few of the songs that 'stuck' for me - the enduring songs that revisit my playlists often. Why? First, because I'm a card-carrying member of the cult following. Second - move over, Paris, Lindsey, and the sisters Spear - he 's the teenager of the year, no matter what year it may be. Here's my first choice, 85 Weeks , a Captain Beefheart ode from Pistolero. I [...]
Frank Black & The Catholics - Billy Radcliffe
Frank Black & The Catholics: Back To Rome from their eponymous CD recorded live to two-track in March, 1997
Because I can't get enough nor am I getting much lately (in beta-alpha-cal order): Imogen Heap ~ Sleep Mark Eitzel ~ Sleep Conjure One ~ Sleep Frank Black And The Catholics ~ Sleep Mark Berube ~ Sleep Azure Ray ~ Sleep The Hot Club of Cowtown does a nice Sleep song but I couldn't seem to get my hands on it. [...]
Song: There Goes My Heart Artist: Enuff Z'Nuff Album: Favorites Comments: Get this album because it is probably the most misunderstood band of the 90's. Song: I Gotta Move Artist: Frank Black Album: Frank Black and the Catholics Comments: Get this album because it makes move and it gives me a taste. Song: Up tempo Venomous Poison Artist: The Hives Album: Barely Legal Comments: Get this [...]
Song: God's Zoo (These Times) Artist: Death Cult Album: Ghost Dance Comments: Joining Ian Astbury for this pre -Cult venture was guitarist Billy Duffy. This would form the nucleus that is (not was, now that they reunited again) The Cult. This still continues the goth sound they didn't truly shed until The Cult's Electric. Song: Prince of the Rodeo Artist: Turbonegro Album: Apocalypse Dudes Comments: This is definitely an acquired [...]
Tom hat's schon letzte Woche vermeldet , mit dem Southside-Newsletter vom 17.3. ist das dann auch bestätigt. Neu sind Frank Black (bin gespannt, ob das Pixies-Forum wieder neben uns zeltet), Johnossi (deren mir eben online durchgehörtes Album so gut gefallen hat, dass ich's gleich bei emusic kaufen musste), The Bravery , Super 700 , Less than Jake und La Vela Puerca . Außerdem bieten die Manic Street Preachers den Song Underdog vom neuen Album als kostenlosen Download an und brechen mit vorheriger Newsletteranmeldung [...]
Bright Eyes - I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning Frank Black And The Catholics - 21 Reasons Catherine Wheel - Crank Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye MC 900 Ft. Jesus - [...]
Frank Black Flashback! Download: "Nadine" (mp3) Myspace page is here . Wiki Wiki Wiki here . 4ad page is here . SpinART page is here . Back Porch page is here . Emusic page is here .
California Bound Frank Black & The Catholics Black Letter Days Spin Art : 2002 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Memory Machine The Dismemberment Plan Emergency & I Desoto : 1999 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] I'm Not Bitter Minus 5 Down With Wilco Yep Roc : 2003 [ Listen ] [ Buy ] Rapture Rapes the Muses of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic [...]
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