Chi avrebbe mai detto che i Vaselines sarebbero passati da qui? La loro storia è fatta di incontri occasionali, ripartenze e piccole grandi soddisfazioni: un minitour italiano come questo, il primo dal 1987, non è cosa da mancare. Eugene Kelly e Frances McKee negli anni Duemila sembrano aver recuperato la voglia di fare e una certa convinzione, proprio quello che mancava loro più di vent'anni fa, quando, con due roventi EP e un solo disco all'attivo, decidevano di sciogliersi per non confrontarsi con l'insuccesso. La gloria a seguire è storia: Kurt Cobain [...]
"I'll never trust who doesn't go / to an Eugene Kelly show", o qualcosa del genere, cantavano i Tunas, molti anni fa. Ho sempre pensato fosse una grande verità. Ogni volta che parlo dei Vaselines non posso fare a meno di tirare fuori l'aneddoto di quella volta che Eugene Kelly aprì un concerto dei Belle & Sebastian al Vox, e la gente distratta, senza riconoscere quel signore dai capelli grigi sul palco, credeva che Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam fosse una cover dei Nirvana. Episodio esemplare che può riassumere abbastanza bene la [...]
La band fondata da Eugene Kelly e Frances McKee. attiva dal 1986 e amatissima da Kurt Cobain e tornata sulle scene grazie a Sub Pop nel 2009 arriva inItalia con una formazione del tutto esclusiva, ad accompagnare Eugene e Frances ci saranno infatti Bobby Kildea e Stevie Jackson dei Belle & Sebastian; è un'occasione per non perdere la storica band scozzese dal vivo, il cui ultimo album (lo ricordiamo) risale al 2010 e si intitola "set with an X" Ecco le date dei Vaselines in Italia: Mercoledì 25 Gennaio 2012 - Roma, Angelo Mai [...]
Domingo 08.01.2012 Radio Duna 89.7 23:00 hrs. Siguen los veranos nostálgicos en Super 45. En esta oportunidad revisaremos pop de guitarras de otras épocas, con The Dentists ( Some people are on the pitch , 1985), The Vaselines ( Enter the Vaselines , 1987), The Chills ( Submarine bells , 1990), Thousand Yard Stare ( Hands on , 1992), Medicine ( The buried life , 1993) y Gwei Lo ( Gwei Lo , 2000).. Recuerden que pueden suscribirse al podcast de Super 45 desde Radio Duna [...]
I the Vaselines, e Bobby e Stevie dei Belle & Sebastian battezzeranno il 2012 dei concerti italiani con il loro tour che inizierà dall'Angelo Mai di Roma il 25 Gennaio 2012, per continuare il 26 allo Spazio 211 di Torino , il 27 al Caracol di Pisa , e il 28 al Bronson di Ravenna . Continua a leggere The Vaselines tour 2012: on stage con Bobbye and Stevie from Belle & Sebastian nelle 4 date italiane... [...]
Typically, I dislike Thanksgiving. This is mostly due to the company I'm surrounded by, excluding my immediate family. Maybe If I was better at small talk, the last Thursday in November would be a trifle more pleasant. But alas! Empty pleasantries are not my thing. Oh, if only I could drown all useless conversations in the sweet, sweet sounds of The Vaselines. The Vaselines consists of Glaswegians Frances McKee and Eugene Kelly. The pair parted ways in 1990, but reunited in 2008, releasing an album in 2010. I recently purchased Enter the Vaselines , a compilation of [...]
Per la prima volta in Italia la cult band scozzese. A gennaio: il 25 @ Angelo Mai di Roma, 26 @ Spazio211 di Torino, il 27 @ Caracol 2.0 di Pisa e il 28 @ Bronson di Ravenna. The Vaselines in Italia pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES
Blogophilia 21 Songs from Blogs: July 5, 2010 – August 31, 2010 Ripped at 320 kbps VBR Gapless Mix Download All Files in One Zip TRACKLIST 01 Intro – Weak Soul Patch 02 Night and Day – Chief 03 Justine – Unicycle Loves You 04 No One's Fucking to the Radio – The Streets on Fire [...]
This year - 2011, if you forgot - marks the 20 th anniversary of the release of Nirvana 's Nevermind . As with all such moments, reissues, tributes, and all kinds of analysis and discussion will spring from the well. I don't recall this much fuss when The White Album turned 20. I am not here to fellate Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, or their legacy, nor am I here to kick them in the balls. Let me say for the record that I do like Nirvana. I was just never one of those kids [...]
![[Introducing] – TEENS](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3701050_lg.jpg)
Tweet From Boise, Idaho, come garage poppin', surf rockin' TEENS . But if this is garage-pop, it's a little dirtier, a lot more lo-fi; if this is surf-rock, it's about as close to surf rock as Beat Happening ever got, which is to say, I'm glad they went in another direction. Though they list their direct influences as the 13th Floor Elevators, The Animals, The Byrds and The Zombies, I was grateful that the sound doesn't immediately give it away. TEENS have a [...]
I've gone high concept this week, and that is not a reference to this week's cover art which is by my friend Davie Kaufmann. No, I mean there's a gimmick: all the songs on Summer Fridays 4.10 are less than two minutes long. All 33 of them (maybe even 34). With this kind of criteria, we don't really have much in the way of new music (two songs by my count) but quality remains high of course. I've tried to vary it up as much as possible because the bulk of the two-minutes-or-less songs in my collection are of the [...]
Ya sabemos que cada tanto Spin saca algún disco exclusivo para recomendar bandas nuevas, hacer compilados especiales o directamente rendir el correspondiente homenaje a algún conjunto que en esa oportunidad se lo merezca. Siguiendo los lineamientos del último caso, la publicación sacará el 26 de julio, dentro de escasos días, un disco exclusivo en el cual diversas bandas realizan un cover de alguna de las canciones del emblemático disco que, pasados ya algunos años - 20, para ser terriblemente precisos -, cambió el lugar de la música independiente dentro del [...]
Hi, Everyone! I'm finally back from the dissertation-/conference-/baco n-hangover-induced departure from blogging, and I've decided to catch up old-school. So, in the spirit of the blog's past, here's a quick round-up of some of the things we missed while I was away. Come on in to see and hear Wye Oak, Telekinesis, St. Vincent, and more! While I was away, M83 announced their new double album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (out Oct. 18th), and released the first track "Midnight City:" Midnight City by [...]
La revista SPIN ha realizado un muy especial tributo a Nirvana , el cual se incluye en formato físico en su edición de agosto. En este disco, 13 artistas reversionan el disco en su totalidad y en su orden original. El tributo se titula Newermind y también se puede descargar de manera gratuita (por tiempo limitado) a través del facebook de la revista. Más información, en la web de la revista Acá el tracklist: MEAT PUPPETS – "Smells Like Teen Spirit" BUTCH WALKER & THE [...]
On September 24, one of the most important albums of our time will celebrate its 20th birthday. Few albums have had as much of an impact on contemporary rock music, even Indian rock, as Nevermind. To celebrate its two-decade anniversary, SPIN magazine got some popular and some not-as-popular-but-frequently- namedropped indie acts to cover all the 13 (yup, they even got singer-songwriter EMA to cover hidden track 'Endless, Nameless') tracks on the album. Artists include indie rock acts Surfer Blood , Titus Andronicus and Telekinesis, singer-songwriters Amanda Palmer and Jessica Lea Mayfield, and two acts that Nirvana frequently covered [...]
( Editor's note: I'm somewhere around 90% certain that "Spin Magazine" will sue my shit if I post the cover song that I am going to discuss in this post. As such, you get no "mp3" to "download" here. But I'm not going to get you all hot and bothered for a track and leave you hanging. If you want the whole Nirvana cover record, all you have to do is like Spin on your Faceboooks. Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. If you'd just like the Vaselines' song that is the principle focus of this post, [...]
In honor of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind , SPIN convinced some bands to cover each track from the album for a tribute record: Newermind . You can see the full tracklist and download it for the price of your email address and a "Like" at SPIN 's Facebook page . As far as the most interesting part of this project, I'm in agreement with SPIN editor Steve Kandell, as told to NPR: "The most intriguing angle was getting bands like the Meat Puppets and the Vaselines, who were [...]
SPIN magazine devotes its new issue to the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's "Nevermind" — "the album [well, one of them, anyway] that changed everything." Going beyond the usual words and pictures, though, the magazine solicited 13 artists to cover the songs on "Nevermind" for a free compilation titled "Newermind." Included are two legendary artists Kurt Cobain famously covered — the Meat Puppets (who dial down "Smells Like Teen Spirit") and the Vaselines (who dial down "Lithium"). Standouts include Butch Walker & the Black Widows (who have some fun with "In Bloom"), Titus Andronicus (who roar [...]
Download new Nirvana covers by Titus Andronicus, the Vaselines, Amanda Palmer, Surfer Blood and tons more!
This year marks the 20 th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind , which gives publications across the globe a chance to get nostalgic about the grunge era. Spin is leading the pack at present—the magazine has produced an entire covers album, in which a series of artists have been picked to rework the songs from the record. There are some impressive names involved, including a few of Kurt Cobain's peers (Meat Puppets, the Vaselines), artists who clearly owe him a sizable debt (JEFF the Brotherhood) and some intriguing newer performers (EMA, Amanda Palmer). The entire album is available to [...]
Indie-eye // re-censore (k.o.c.)
polaroid > un blog alla radio >
Super 45
Indie-eye
1146 miles
Indie For BUNNIES
The Dadada
Consequence Of Sound
Listen Before You Buy
Sound Bites
Cuchara Sónica
Shh, Listen...
noiselab
Indiecision
Citizen Dick
donewaiting.com
Buzz Bands
Cover Me
Prefixmag.com
Out This Week 2/14
Diplo - "Climax" (MP3 Stream)
Jackback Feat. David Guetta & Nicky Romero – Wild One Two
Skrillex Uses Satanic and Homosexual Influence to Win Grammys
