Artist: Kurt Vonnegut

Time reviews the digital deluxe edition of Bon Iver's self-titled album, out tomorrow. While the short films themselves are hypnotic and enchanting, the "Deluxe Edition" is less notable as a catalog of music videos than as a rethinking of the way albums can engage the consumer in a high-tech world. Yes, Bjork has augmented a new album with an iPad app. And yes, musicians releasing additional music videos, hidden tracks and concert footage to boost store sales is hardly a novel strategy. But the fact that this Bon Iver "Deluxe Edition" is being [...]

The Washington Independent Review of Books interviews Charles J. Shields about his new book And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life . Sound on the Sound features a video session with singer-songwriter John Vanderslice . Merriam-Webster Online lists its favorite quotations about words. ( via ) Nerve lists the greatest love songs [...]

Cougar Microbes caught up with Little Tybee's vocalist Brock Scott to discuss the "nuclear" family, viral hysteria, bringing back the mullet and LA rich little white girls. Here is how it went: Cougar Microbes: What time did you wake up today? Was it out of choice or necessity? Little Tybee: I woke up at 8 [...]

Would Kurt Vonnegut have appreciated Bury Your Dead naming their new song, "Slaughterhouse Five," after his legendary novel? I have a hard time believing he would. Vonnegut's writing was punctuated by wit, imagination, and a healthy dose of wry cynicism; BYD's music is punctuated by the desire to make breakdowns even more prevalent, and somehow [...]

News Would Kurt Vonnegut have appreciated Bury Your Dead naming their new song, "Slaughterhouse Five," after his legendary novel? I have a hard time believing he would. Vonnegut's writing was punctuated by wit, imagination, and a healthy dose of wry cynicism; BYD's music is punctuated by the desire to make breakdowns even more prevalent, and somehow [...]

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Book Review While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut; pub date: 1/25/11 This is a great, fun read, although it deals heavily with moral dilemmas and the sad inability of family members and co-workers to relate to one another. The collection is part of a treasure trove of old stories that fell by the waste side as short story writing went out of vogue and Vonnegut dedicated his time to novel-writing, according to a recent interview on chuckpahniuk.net with Vonnegut's longtime business partner [...]

While 2010 saw the book publishing world produce some excellent works despite the trials caused by the ever-worsening economy, 2011 is already promising to take it up a notch with with beloved talents like Alice Hoffman, Edith Pearlman, Charles Baxter, and James McElroy. There are also some very exciting debuts. Here is a list of books that arrived in January with some recommendations from your editor in order to help you navigate the literary landscape. Your Editor Recommends [...]

The Sundance-honored multimedia artist will bring his new film and a live band to MoPA this Sunday. Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

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Kyle Lucas, lead emcee of the band Vonnegutt, gave insight on the band's continued rise to fame.

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the telling moment for me on the last nothing people record was the cover of syd barrett's late night. he said, inside me i feel alone and unreal. and this, this whole enterprise, drenched in the pessimism, gloom and amphetamine-cranked paranoia of kurt vonnegut and philip k. dick, this is what informs nothing people's sci-fi bent. and soft crash, good god. was expecting something special from them (i always do) but nothing prepared me for just how dirty magnificent, how unshiny glorious, [...]

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This probably shouldn't warrant an entire post but Uni is killing my soul and I need a big ol drink and a 5 minute break (and yes it's only the first week). I'm probably way out of the loop but i've only heard of Born Ruffians in passing and never took the time out to listen to them UNTIL I saw via a friends Last.fm page that they had a song called 'Kurt Vonnegut '. That alone is pretty amazing, but turns out the song isn't too shabby either... or maybe I'm just temporarily hearing impaired because [...]

Look at the Birdie is a new, posthumously published collection of short stories by late, great author Kurt Vonnegut . I always feel it's a little disrespectful for works to be published without the permission of their authors after their deaths, but I couldn't resist reading new material from my favorite author of all time. And if ever a work called for an unauthorized release, it's this one. Kurt Vonnegut's genius continues to astound me. His seem to be the only books whose endings I can [...]

Requiem by Kurt Vonnegut The crucified planet Earth, should it find a voice and a sense of irony, might now well say of our abuse of it, "Forgive them, Father. They know not what they do." The irony would be that we know what we are doing. When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, "It is [...]

You can hear the voices of both Muruch writers Brendan and Vic in the first installment of Contrast Podcast's Festive Fifty . Brendan introduces "King of the Dogs" from Iggy Pop's Préliminaires and Vic intros "Nice Very Nice" by Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier from Ice-9 Ballads , which is on both her 2009 Top Albums and Best Albums of the Decade lists. Click the link below to download the podcast... Contrast Podcast - Festive Fifty (mp3) * *mp3 [...]

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The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Steve C. in Hudson, Texas:

In addition to my usual year end lists , I've also compiled Best of the Decade lists . Following are my favorite albums that were released between 2000-2009... Muruch's Best of the Decade: Albums 25. Muse: The Resistance This is one of those albums that has classic potential, and I expect to move its way up the list as the years go by. A quote from my review : [...]

It's that time of year again! Following are my Top 15 Albums of 2009. As usual, I tried to balance the order of the list between what I personally perceive as artistic merit (quality of songwriting, vocals, and instrumentation) and basic listenability (how many times I played the album throughout the year). I've included some new commentary and brief quotes from the original reviews. Click on the album titles to read the full reviews, purchase the albums, and in some cases download mp3s... Muruch's Top 15 Albums of 2009 [...]

Sometime in my early 20s I became a huge fan of American satirist Kurt Vonnegut. His dark sense of humour couple with his ability to make keen observations about human nature made for compelling reads, regardless of the genre he chose for any given project. Breakfast of Champions still ranks among my favorite books of all-time. From the story of the least famous Watergate conspirator of