Tagged: old

Joe writes: Wayne was the guitarist in the MC5. Wild America is from the nineties, when he was signed to Epitaph Records. I'm not sure why I was reminded of it but it is a great tune with real bite. It's not on YouTube or iTunes but it is on MySpace which is something to be said for MySpace I suppose.

It's been a couple of years in the making but Glasgow four-piece Three Blind Wolves are finally set to release their debut album,  Hallelujah For The Old Machine, on May 27th. Compared in the past to the likes of Modest Mouse and Bright Eyes , the four-piece take those influences and throw a weight of rollicking Scottish-folk in to the mix, creating a big and bold record that's completely of its own making. A couple of weeks ahead of its release, we're very [...]

• Three Blind Wolves - Sing Hallelujah for the Old Machine

For its one-year anniversary, Maison Kitsuné celebrates its Big Apple boutique's birthday, with far more than a candles dotted apple pie! Located in the NoMad hotel, on Broadway, the 1000 sq. foot store, conceived by co-founder of the brand and architect Masaya Kuroki, was conceptualized as an engaging experience in fashion, music, design and lifestyle. One [...]

I've heard this a lot recently. Although he didn't write it, and recorded it late in his career, it's up there with his classics as far as I'm concerned.

A great country singer has died. I first heard this track covered by Elvis Costello - very well, I thought. But this sounds majestic and the two voices go well together. He did write a lot of the songs he recorded but this was written by Jerry Chesnut.

Joe writes: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blue isn't one of my favourite Bob Dylan songs, or wasn't until I heard Nina's restrained version of it. It's my new favourite Dylan cover and one of my two favourite Nina Simone tracks. Here's my other Nina favourite, Little Girl Blue, which borrows from Good King Wenceslas: and while I'm on the subject of classic tracks that borrow from Christmas carols, here's Joni Mitchell's River with its debt to Jingle Bells:

Joe writes: While looking through old possessions in my mum's house, I came across these Bran Van 3000 beer mats which reminded me about their awesome but odd debut single Drinking In LA. Odd because there's a DJ talking over the intro about giving away Bran Van 3000 tickets. Awesome because it's such a tune, with that fabulously loose groove, a singalong chorus to rival Tubthumping, and a lyric which captures the mindset of wasting time getting drunk when you could be getting famous. Bran Van 3000 are Canadian and they're still touring apparently but the rest of their career [...]

Detroit rapper Danny Brown 's forthcoming Old album is one of the LP's due out this year that I'm most looking forward too. His last album XXX was probably my favourite hip-hop album of 2011 and I get the feeling that, Old is going to send him stellar. Last weekend, Brown performed at Coachella music festival, debuting new tune, Dope Song , as part [...]

Joe writes: For years I've been racking my brains trying to remember which American indie record from the '90s inspired MGMT so much. Of course it was this.

Old church doors in #neworleans #louisiana #nola #church #old #doors #vintage

Joe writes: This is one of my favourite Euro dance tracks. I love the build up to the vocal (which doesn't come in until 1.17). I love how simple the lyric is; they were right to resist the temptation to write any more. Basically it's perfect. I once experienced a big moment when Judge Jules played this at El Divino in Ibiza. Judge Jules is now an entertainment lawyer. I wonder what DJ Jurgen and the rest of Alice Deejay are doing now? Wikipedia suggests Jurgen might still be a [...]

Joe writes: NME declared Prince's Parade as the album of 1986 , back before they were obsessed with white indie rock. Years later I borrowed it from my local library, copied it on to cassette and remember being moved to tears by Sometimes It Snows In April as I walked home from school along Cemetery Road. It might have been April, it might have been snowing, probably not though. Prince has an army of lawyers keeping his music off YouTube so here it is on Spotify:

For its one-year anniversary, Maison Kitsuné celebrates its Big Apple boutique's birthday, with far more than a candles dotted apple pie! Located in the NoMad hotel, on Broadway, the 1000 sq. foot store, conceived by co-founder of the brand and architect Masaya Kuroki, was conceptualized as an engaging experience in fashion, music, design and lifestyle. One [...]

• Kitsune Maison - Kitsuné AMERICA 2 MiniMix by Jerry Bouthier

Joe writes: I just spent a long flight listening to Bob Dylan and reading Rolling Stone's Special Collectors Edition of 40 years of Dylan interviews. They also asked a panel of Dylan experts to create a list of his 100 greatest songs. The top ten is here . Like A Rolling Stone is no. 1 - fair enough. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is a rather surprising no. 2. As well as being one of my favourite albums of all-time, Blood On The Tracks is surely the best Dylan album from beginning to end, and nine [...]

Danny Brown’s “Kush Coma” sounds like anything but. I suppose “Hallucinogenic Episode Resulting In A Hospital Stay And A Thorazine Prescription” isn’t as catchy a title, but it would be [...] The post Danny Brown - “Kush Coma” appeared first on The Smoking Section .

• Xdannyxbrownx - Kush Coma produced by Skywlkr

Phil writes: With all the Beatles stuff there's been in the past year, I was wondering why they hardly feature on WGM. The reason must be that their music, which is clearly amongst the world's greatest, is so well known that we assume readers of the blog will already know almost anything we might post. However, a great many of their songs have been covered and there are some excellent versions which may not be that well-known. This is one:

Joe writes: My dad bought The Band's 1993 album Jericho at the time of release. This was its highlight and the first time I'd heard this gloriously simple song, recorded by Harry Belafonte but made famous by Don Williams. Country Boy was a posthumous inclusion on The Band's album - Richard Manuel who performs it had committed suicide in 1986. I learnt from Wikipedia that the song was co-written by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers who was credited under the alias Fred Brooks because he'd been blacklisted in the McCarthy era.

You're so old. And drunk.

The coolest concept store in the world colette celebrates its sixteenth birthday in a girlie festival of festivity! To mark the occasion, the boutique acts as a true american teenager, by having its own Sweet Sixteen, meaning the feast where you celebrate emancipation and driving license with namby-pamby paillettes and prom dresses, in the most US [...]

When I first heard Breathe Out a couple of years ago it felt like a revelation. Which, I'm sure they'll forgive me for saying, isn't really an expected reaction to the kind of music they make. Straight-up scuzzy, slightly mucky, DIY guitar pop is their thing and they do it relatively simply (albeit brilliantly) - but something about their self-titled EP just clicked for me. More than that; it hit me. Straight in the gut. Lord knows why music has that effect on us, but I'm so so glad it does. Fast forward to the present [...]