Un souffle de liberté a emporté Paris, j'espère que tout le monde a été touché... tom waits -jockey full of bourbon- the velvet underground -temptation inside your heart- leonard cohen -don't go home with your hard-on-
En rentrant en avion de Bangkok pour Londres après un long voyage , installé dans mon siège confortable avec mon écran individuel, je me baladais alors à travers les différents programmes multimédia proposés et j'étais tombé sur un documentaire qui avait attiré mon attention : 7 Ages of Rock . Produit par la BBC , ce documentaire se découpe en 7 épisodes d'une cinquantaine de minutes chacun essayant de retracer l'histoire du rock à travers de nombreuses images d'archives et interviews. Chaque épisode se concentre sur un type de rock en particulier, se basant généralement sur deux [...]
I love toys, which is why i was excited to find this great collection of 20 album covers recreated in Lego over at The Toy Zone , and just had to share. It's a bit heavy on the Beatles, but the Norah Jones, Belle & Sebastian, and Aphex Twin album cover interpretations are spot-on. There are also covers from Pink Floyd, Velvet Underground, Muse, the Strokes, Nirvana, and plenty more. What album covers do you think should be given the toy treatment? --Alan Wiley
In the midst of all the punk-rock press excitement of New York in 1978, Lou Reed could have easily ridden the new sound to re-newed superstar status. He had, after all, been the single most important figure in the Manhattan underground rock scene for a decade already, and a number of punks were happy to point fingers in his direction (as well as toward Iggy Pop, the MC5, and the New York Dolls) when asked who had influenced this new challenge to radio-friendly pop. The songs move with an artfulness that show a musician at [...]
The initial beginnings of The Velvet Underground are rooted in the meeting of two people Lou Reed and John Cale. In late 1964, Lour Reed then a song writer for Pickwick records met John Cale. Cale a Welshman who moved to New York to study classical music, developed an interest in rock music via Reed and the two formed a group called The Primitives. Cale and Reed had similar musical connections, both willing to experiment with music. Prior to meeting Reed, Cale worked with composers John Cage and LaMonte Young who were known for their experimental musical compositions. Two Lou [...]
No this is not a travelling agency I'm writing about today, it's an interesting band that started out 2006 in Sandviken. They deliver a really nice indie pop and rock with a good sense of melodies and special vocals. So far they have produced two EP:s: "Youth and Student Travel" and "Copy Me, Copy You". Two records with quite different characters. The first one more wild, spontaneous and unpolished and the second one softer, thoughtful and with an ambience that reminds a little of the later Velvet Underground . Here you'll find three songs from [...]
Si intitola Palermo Shooting il nuovo film del regista tedesco Wim Wenders nei cinema italiani dal 21 novembre con una colonna sonora, su etichetta Cooperative Music/City Slang (con distribuzione Self ) che sarà disponibile in tutti i negozi il giorno stesso dell'uscita del film nelle sale cinematografiche. Continua a leggere Wim Wenders: il 21 novembre esce Palermo Shooting con una colonna sonora fra Velvet Underground, Calexico, Grinderman, Portishead e De Andre'... Commenta »
In those days New York City was absolutely lousy with people like me who had come to the big city and wanted to be writers. The East Village was the epicenter of this. There existed a circular at the time, just a broadsheet, printed on colored paper that listed all the poetry readings by location and time in a given month. It was called the Poetry Calendar. Maybe it was put out by the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, but I am not sure. This was our bible and neophytes like me would show up whenever there was an open reading. [...]
next to beer drive thru at payphone brice rd sweet car - w4m Reply to: pers-881546951@craigslist.org [ ? ] Date: 2008-10-16, 12:42PM EDT Hello, you looked liked a professional buisness man with a nice car standing at the pay phone between beer drive thru and laundry mat on brice rd. i was in the blk mustang we gave each other the eye but that was it, i wanted to turn around soo bad and talk to you. you were fine to the T....i wish i would have. [...]
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Good Folk of Vancouver (Raphael Borja) Today is Blog Action Day ! Bloggers all over the world, including myself, are focusing their efforts on the important topic of poverty, to change the conversation for one day. Living in Vancouver, BC I see a great deal of poverty in my day to day life. Living next to one of the many bridges in the city, I often have to tip toe under the bridge on my way [...]
En diciembre de 2006 Lou Reed dio una serie de conciertos en la St. Ann's Warehouse de su natal Brooklyn. En dichas presentaciones el músico interpretó en su totalidad su clásico álbum Berlin (1973) y otras pocas canciones de demás discos. Dichos conciertos fueron grabados por Julian Schnabel quien se encargó de producir una especie de documental que intercambia imágenes del concierto con escenas filmadas en slow motion por su hija Lola Schnabel, que le dan más vida a la música de Reed. El DVD lleva por nombre Berlin: Live [...]
Dancer vs Politician Genre: Pop / Indie From: Athens, Georgia and Berlin, Germany Dancer Vs. Politician is the pseudonym of singing saw player (!) Sanni Baumgaertner a German native who moved to Athens, Georgia in the late 90s. Sanni, the tenderoni of Tom Wait 's soundalike Don Chambers , sings in both English and German and, for [...]
Chinatown : Jake Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million? Noah Cross: Oh my, yes. Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford? Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gittes, the future. The Graduate : Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word - plastics. Benjamin Braddock: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? [...]
MUSIC NEWS - It's been thirty five years since former Velvet Underground leader, Lou Reed 's dark masterpiece Berlin album was released to the music world. At the time, critics didn't understand, but the album's storyline with paranoia, drugs and suicide became a personal soundtrack for many young people going through the difficult times of the period. Of course, it's now considered one of Reed's main masterpieces, but he never performed the album live. In 2006, Reed finally did, and a concert film of the shows, Lou Reed's Berlin (Genius Products), which [...]
The heat is on! I hope none of us had unrealistic expectations for Day 1 of our Velvet Intervention. Townsman Hrrundivbakshi deserves Mad Props for hearing us out and responding in detail and with passion. It's hard to be confronted by one's peers and asked to come clean with veiled and long-harbored disdain for a band that's not only critically acclaimed band but that's at the juncture of one of Rock's most significant points in the ongoing development of Cool . [...]
Nel contest di martedì scorso avevamo messo in sfida due singoli nostrani assolutamente evergreen. Alla fine avete scelto a maggioranza "Un'avventura" di Lucio Battisti che s'è imposta su "Sono come tu mi vuoi" di Mina. Rimaniamo all'epoca del bianco e nero e peschiamo due fantastici classici del 1967, utilizzati recentemente per degli spot. Mettiamo così in sfida " The look of love " dall'omonimo album di Dusty Springfield e " Sunday morning " dei Velvet Underground dal loro disco con Nico. Se i titoli non vi dicono molto, fate click [...]
Velvet Intervention: Day 1 Over the years Rock Town Hall's preeminent hippie hater, Townsman Hrrundivbakshi , has made numerous threats to explain what it is that makes him incapable of appreciating the artistry of a couple of more Beat-indebted rock legends, Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground. We've granted Hrrundi his hatred of The Jefferson Airplane , and we've given up on him ever fully explaining his overall dislike of hippies. After years of grilling, he's been man enough to occasionally come to terms with [...]
van morrison will be playing his astral weeks album in its entirety later this year. i'm curious to hear how he'd interpret it today, but a bit of me would rather keep the seminal 1968 version in my head as the only one i'll ever hear. it was one of those records i read about before i actually heard it, and it was the lester bangs article that moved me to buying myself a copy almost immediately. in that review he pronounced astral weeks one of the most significant records in his life, [...]
MP3 : "I'm Not Afraid Of A Fight" This Friday a trip to Corktown won't exactly make up for your inability to drop everything and take a road trip to Chicago to see My Bloody Valentine, but it'll still give you a chance to exercise your shoegaze demons. Lansing's Fields Of Industry make fuzzed out dream music that would fit perfectly on a mixtape with The Velvet Underground and Galaxy 500. Frontman Joshua Barton, when asked to expound on the notion of "the shoegaze label" said, [...]
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