Devendra Banhart announces new album and tour Devendra Banhart, the Houston-born purveyor of the dirty hippie beard and the proverbial figurehead of the so-called Naturalismo scene, has announced that the title of his fifth studio album will be Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, which of course leads to the assumption that either Mr. Banhart has been indulging in the literature of Gerald Vizenor, or that, well, there's no point in beating around the bush, now is there, he has been continuing to enjoy the mind-altering effects of certain psychoactive substances while composing [...]
Britt Daniel has reason to be happy: Spoon debuts in Billboard's top 10 this week! photo by Kris Krüg CRB Update: Deliberations continue between webcasters and SoundExchange , the organization that collects royalties on behalf of record labels and musicians, even as the deadline for a decision has passed. On Thursday, just three days before the CRB decided royalty rate increase was due to take effect, John Simson, the executive director of SoundExchange, offered a temporary reprieve before [...]
"Harry was a big bunny....with very sharp teeth." - Paul Williams (songwriter & friend) Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994) - Over this past weekend I had the opportunity to check out a screening of the new Harry Nilsson documentary Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About [...]
"Harry was a big bunny....with very sharp teeth." - Paul Williams (songwriter & friend) Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994) - Over this past weekend I had the opportunity to check out a screening of the new Harry Nilsson documentary Who is Harry Nilsson (And Why is Everybody Talkin' About [...]