La scorsa settimana abbiamo terminato il nostro viaggio attraverso gli album più importanti del decennio che si sta concludendo. Abbiamo quindi pensato di riassumere il tutto in questo post che non è altro che la lista completa, tappa per tappa, degli album che di volta in volta abbiamo approfondito, in modo tale da avere una sorta di indice delle varie puntate. Dopo il salto trovate anche la listona di tutti gli album che di anno in anno sono stati inseriti fra "gli album da salvare". [...]
The 4-CD box set Dolly Parton (and her fans) deserve Dolly Parton's outsized personality has occasionally obscured the fact that she's one of America's all-time greatest songwriters and an exceptional vocalist who effortlessly crossed from country to pop and back again. Her early years as Porter Wagoner's girl singer and duet partner, her television fame, her climb to solo country stardom, her painful split with Wagoner (brilliantly memorialized in her parting "I Will Always Love You," a three-time hit for Parton and a worldwide chart-topper for Whitney Houston), her crossover to pop, Hollywood filmmaking [...]
From the Hideaway Saloon ... We know most of you work during the day. We also know most of you that work during the day would rather be at the Hideaway drinking a cold beer with your friends. That's why we've extended our hours. Now you can stop in at 4 PM and get your drink on. Work sucks and you know it. Your boss can get over it. Let's review their beer list (DAMN!!)... Abita Jockamo [...]
photos by Jake Forney "Kicking off Pop Montreal [Wednesday] night, NoBunny took the stage by force - a gang of musically inclined vagrants clothed in barely there Y-fronts and strategically placed rabbit accessories stormed Sala and its punk pitched transient company. Growling into the microphone numerous times, "This song is about a so and so and an eskimo" they went on to play favorites "I am a Girlfriend", "Give it to Me", and "Mess Me Up". Hunx & His Punx [...]
A wee departure from pasting up film posters on the blog. What seems like a lifetime ago, I posted the late Ian Walker's 1979 New Society article, 'Anarchy in the UK' , on the blog, and it was always my intention to post other pieces by Ian Walker that had originally appeared within the pages of the now defunct British magazine, The New Society . What happened then? Well, I moved to the States and my copy of Paul Barker's 'The Other Britain' - a collection of New [...]
Although The Bad Plus (bassist Reid Anderson, drummer David King and pianist Ethan Iverson) have spent most of 2009 touring with vocalist Wendy Lewis in support of their album For All I Care, it was back to basics, if that word can be applied to anything the trio does, for a pair of shows that were part of the Highline Ballroom's piano series. Of course, late August is a bad time for a series of anything in NYC, except for buses out of the city perhaps, which led [...]
As genius as Quentin Tarantino is at making movies I think its safe to say he's just as genius at putting together soundtracks. "When I'm writing a script," said Tarantino once, "one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence. I can't go forward until I figure out how I'm going to start - what the opening mood music will be. As I'm writing, I go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film. Looking [...]
This is Torrini's first North American tour and Montréal is her first date. OOOOOO we're her firsts!!! Yippeee!!!! Artists from Iceland can do no wrong. I've tried to prove otherwise. I have since given up. Who is this opener, Anya Marina? For once I go to an opener and I am so so pleased. A cute, blonde, and sassy Russian from Los Angeles whose voice feeds you into the euphoria that only blue cloudless skies atop of soft green grass and a nap can give. I would have been happy to have seen just [...]
Back in March at South By Southwest , our Joshua got to sit down in a downtown Austin coffeeshop and chat up the lovely and uber-talented Anya Marina , whose become a Popwreckoning favorite since the very first listen of A Slow and Steady Seduction: Phase II (still one of our most listened to albums!). Joshua, PopWreckoning: I know you wanted a fun interview, but I have to ask you at least two musical questions. Anya Marina: No problem. OK. [...]
If you came of age in the '80s, or wish you did, John Hughes gave your generation its "My Generation," directing Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 16 Candles, Weird Science, and The Breakfast Club, and producing/writing Some Kind Of Wonderful and Pretty In Pink. Hughes threw down for all the kids who fancied themselves to be like Matthew Broderick's Ferris or Molly Ringwald in PiP, but were really more like the latter's Duckie (today one of Two and a Half Men) or Allie Sheedy's creepy Breakfast Club klepto. He created a cinematic funhouse mirror that was partly what the kids of [...]
Christina Hendricks In Esquire - F-Listed Jessica Simpson's Breasts Cause A Riot - The Superficial Katharine McPhee Goes Blonde - Celebrity Smack Barbara Walters Wants To See Eric Bana Naked - Celeb News Wire Dustin Diamond Has A Book - Websters Is My Bitch Nelly Furtado Has Various Talents - Derek Hail [...]
Chris Johnson of the notorious Deep Blues Festival reminded me of these two classic R.L. Burnside articles from the Wall Sreet Journal and The New Yorker: Catching Up: R.L. Burnside's "A Ass Pocket of Whiskey" By Jim Fusilli [...]
Location Brick Lane, London Date 14 July 2009 Words and photo: Yasmin Selena Butt London's great. You could be out drinking on a date on a school night just off Brick Lane, when a sultry eyed lady cajoles you to hold a cigarette between your lips, snaps it half and then decided to flick a whip at you to pick it out. Blindfolded. No harm done, Peter Wright survived with a smile on his face to the applause of the audience. Such are the delights on [...]
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The second-ever NYLON Summer Music Tour stopped at Washington's Rock 'n' Roll Hotel on the evening of June 24. The Hotel - incidentally not a real working hotel - is a teensy weensy club in Northeast that usually hosts under-the-radar acts. All four acts on this bill - Jaguar Love , Plastiscines , Living Things , and Patrick Wolf - are considered indie, but they all have a distinctive style and aesthetic that made them stand out from one another and [...]
by Bill Pearis DOWNLOAD : Ty Segall - It #1 (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Ty Segall - The Drag (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Charlie & the Moonhearts - Cagemouth (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Most Serene Republic - Heavens to Purgatory (MP3) DOWNLOAD : Your Nature - Triangle Eyes (M4A) Ty Segall This week it's all about San Francisco, as [...]
I'd like to take a moment to thank my peers at the LimeWire Music Blog for turning me on to Patrick Wolf over the past few weeks. I've immersed myself in his catalog and was certainly excited to hear of his upcoming gig at the Highline Ballroom, appearing as part of Nylon 's summer showcase. Though his headlining performance was as fantastic as I had expected, it was a long and bumpy road along the way. The evening began with one of the very worst bands I've had the displeasure of seeing, the Portland-based Jaguar Love [...]
After weeks of contemplation, I got my hair cut yesterday. I try to get it cut every three months or so, whether I need to or not. I didn't get too much cut off as I don't like to have it too short and I prefer to show off my curls. The barber told me that he was not as busy as he used to be as people were not getting their hair cut as often. However, I might have to go back sooner that I would like as he didn't take that much off. Here are some tunes for [...]
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Music biographies either focus xclusively on gossip or are too filled with adulation to hold my attention. Stuart Berman's This Book Is Broken: A Broken Social Scene Story is happily neither. Constructed through extensive reasearch and interviews with all 18 members of the band, Berman presents a truly intimate portrait of Broken Social Scene through not only the text but also never before published photographs. In [...]
Genius. One of you assholes - some faggot using the handle "clamhead" - asked me to compile a companion list to yesterday's Friday Top Ten exposing to the world the most underrated hot chicks in the universe. Well, duh. Why didn't I think of that? Oh, right, it's because I don't watch nearly enough TV or read enough nerd websites to know many "underrated" hot actresses. Anyone I could probably think of would be too mainstream for you people. Really, I can only think of five babes that I think are "underrated" that might actually work on a list like [...]
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
The Beach House Theory of 2k10.
