In 1996, at the age of seventeen, she began carving out a name for herself in the Texas music scene with punk-pop trio Lucy Loves Schroeder and her own solo project. Eight years later, ex-Weezer bassist Matt Sharp played a show with her in Dallas, and very soon after, he asked her to relocate to [...]

top of the morning! i am not sure how the hell this passed under my radar? in all actuality, i am not surprised at all. i wish there was a service that would send me alerts when artists i have listened to either via last.fm or spotify or whatever has released a new record. there probably is, but i am not aware of it. either way, my man nick saloman and his the bevis frond released a new record back in october entitled the leaving of [...]
![[video] Elliott Smith Live at Green Street Grille c. 1997](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3946855_lg.jpg)
In 1997 , Lou Barlow was having a going away party at the Green Street Grille in Cambridge, MA. That night, there was a show, hosted by the late Billy Ruane , a champion of the Boston music scene for decades whose escapades are worthy of the term 'legendary'. What made this night special was that this show would feature an acoustic performance from a still-relatively-unknown songwriter from Portland named Elliott Smith who had been touring & performing with fellow songwriter Mary Lou Lord . Thanks [...]
One of the reasons I am so busy these days is that as a baritone, I am in high demand for local choirs and stage productions. It's not just that I'm loud: As a trained vocalist, a stage actor, and a teacher, I pride myself in my control of tone and pitch and projected volume - all the subtle ways I have learned to shape sound to maximum effect in a variety of venues. It's part of my identity: a nurtured talent, grown and trusted. When it is tired, I can feel [...]
Photo by Mary Lou Lord, via Facebook. How does MARY LOU LORD know what KURT COBAIN smelled like? If you're asking that question, you're obviously not a Nirvana superfan. For an introduction... Support indie media! Read the rest at thephoenix.com . . .

Given recent events across the UK and particularly in London writing about independent music may be low down the list of many peoples priorities this week, but stating the obvious this is a music blog and although Beat Surrender has no 'Mission Statement ' but part of the blogs 'job' is to promote and support great music - the big players don't need assistance, but Beat Surrender can (I hope) help the independents in some small way, and right now they need some help . One of the labels affected [...]
well, howdy! this seems like an interesting find by non-other than mary lou lord . she found this footage while going through her dearly departed friend and boston native billy ruane's archives. its uncle tupelo playing at the middle east on 10.23.1990. i have never seen footage from this show, but that doesnt mean much. hopefully theres more, and it sounds as if there might be. --> <!--
Lucinda Williams is surely better known - or at least more easily recognized - for her ragged heartbroken delivery and emotional way with a guitar than her songbook per se. But as we noted back in May of 2009, when we featured her interpretations of other peoples' songs , it wasn't always the case: her first Grammy win was as a songwriter, for Mary Chapin Carpenter's 1992 performance of Passionate Kisses . In many ways, of course, Williams' is an unusual path towards stardom: though her 1979 debut [...]

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We've had great success with previous Single Song Sunday compilations from the Dylan songbook . But they say the third time's a charm, and it's been a rough couple of days, with the passage of a town icon and long-time educator whom I had grown to respect deeply in these past few years, and news of the divorce of an old friend and long-time crush, coming right on top of each other. This, plus the impending annual migration of this year's senior class, have left my mind lingering on loss and loneliness as the week [...]
![Mary Lou Lord: About Me and Kurt [Cobain]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2343755_lg.jpg)
As even Stephin Merritt could tell you , Wikipedia is no place to gather factually accurate information (obvs), but its user-driven database is still, unfortunately, a one-stop shop for many who believe it to be an expert-driven encyclopedia. It's also the second Google result for "Mary Lou Lord" and many other notable artists. In a lengthy post on her Facebook page (via ONTD ), Lord ranted, reacted, and responded to false information submitted by anonymous users to her Wiki page, recounting the story of her friendship with Kurt Cobain in the months prior to [...]

The second album in my chronological look back at the decade in music is one that I had overlooked at first as the album was originally released in 1999. However, 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields was only released in the British Isles in the middle of 2000. I had never heard of the band or their music until I read a feature-length interview with the main man behind the band in a Sunday newspaper magazine supplement. I was so intrigued by the concept of the album that I shelled out around €20 for it a little bit later. [...]

Part Four is a little deceitful - after The Divine Comedy gets things off to a rollicking start, things slow down considerably. That doesn't mean that the level of quality lessens, though, as the songs that follow all have their languid charms. Enjoy: 1) The Divine Comedy - Famous 2) Catherine A.D. - The Book Of Love 3) Shocking Pinks - Nothing Matters When We're Dancing 4) Mary Lou Lord - I Don't Want To Get Over You 5) [...]

I can't believe another 2 months have gone by since I last updated! Not that anyone cares but I've moved AGAIN, hopefully I don't have to move for a while. The end of the year is rapidly approaching, hopefully I can get in a few more posts before the year ends, who knows if any of them will have any substance, but they will have covers. Here are Five covers of "Thirteen" by Big Star for Friday the 13th. [...]

Mary Lou Lord: His N.D. World [ purchase ] After seeing Anne's post , I just had to post this one. No Depression was a magazine that charted the rise of alt-country music in the late '90s to such an extent that its name is one of the many alternate appellations for the genre. Mary Lou Lord cleverly reworked her song "His Indie World" into "His N.D. World", thus affording her the chance to name-drop a couple [...]

Mary Lou Lord: His Indie World [ Purchase ] I was reminded of this song after reading and listening to Susan's submission of the Todd Snider track. This is another song that consists almost entirely of lists of artists. In this one's case, it's a song about how she doesn't feel like she fits into a guy's life because his life is just one long reference to the indie rock bands he loves, and she'd rather sit around listening to "Joni, Nick, Neil and Bob". The references are used so [...]

I have been to Tennessee at least three times in my life, and have never seen Graceland. However, my wife and I were married by Elvis at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas. The Bible: Graceland The New Pornographers: Graceland Mary Lou Lord: From Galway To Graceland

Move over saucers! There's a new shape in town! The latest UFO reports from Paranormal News point out that a majority of the recent UFO sightings denote angular spaceships. Triangular flying objects have been spotted over Florida, Texas, and Washington-state. And, not to be outdone, rectangular objects have been spotted in Arizona and Vegas. It's only a matter of time before rhombus and dodecahedron shapes appear. Keep watching the skies! Mary Lou Lord: Martian Saints

Bloggers love Big Star . So much so, in fact, that mere mention of their names to a certain sort of audiophile is like a secret handshake, a wink and a nod that marks the listener as a well-informed, well-cultured aesthete of a particular underground substream which defined the modern musical map. And deservedly so. Led by highly conflicted and conflicting personalities Alex Chilton & Chris Bell in the early seventies, the original incarnation of Big Star never had much mainstream success, perhaps because they were way [...]
Mary Lou Lord - Speedy Motorcycle (mp3)