Beloved NYC indie darlings get a well-deserved reissue treatment. Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips have been a romantic couple for a long time now. Long enough to make two proper full-lengths, an EP, and most recently the gorgeously crafted 13 Most Beautiful: Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Test, for which you can find them occasionally popping up to perform in art museums and gallery openings. Five years ago, though, Wareham and Phillips were putting the finishing touches on Luna, a not-quite-celebrated-enough indie pop outfit...
Yesterday a co-worker of mine was shocked, shocked I tell you, that I have 151 feeds in my Bloglines RSS reader. What can I say, I like to read the interweb. One blog I am really enjoying is the WaPo's Post Rock Blog , written by David Malitz and J. Freedom du Lac. Good blogs over at The Post aren't exactly anything new ( Wizards Insider and Soccer Insider are daily reads of mine) but it's nice to see the Post's music staff throw their hat in the ring as well. The reason I bring [...]
This is actually a vanity post pretending to be real! This is the credits from the only film I've ever been (and am ever likely to be) in the credit sequence of! My namecheck is 4 minutes and 8 seconds in if you don't wnat to watch the whole video Obviously this is from the excellent Tell Me Do You Miss Me which would make a nice xmas gift if you're stuck for pressies for loved ones... Buy Tell Me Do You Miss Me from A Shop Full of [...]