Arthur Russell Revived: Hold On To Your Dreams
Thom Donovan10.25.09
We’ve seen a major reexamination, recently, of the work of the late, esteemed, multifaceted musician Arthur Russell, through a biopic film, a record label dedicating to releasing unreleased, rare and reissued material, and a new biography in the bookstores; the poetic brilliance of Arthur Russell is alive and well for a new generation. Thom Donovan looks at the entire scope of the Russell revision on the heals of the biography by Tim Lawrence, Hold On To Your Dreams.
Bye Brendan Mullen, Fanzine Owes You, In Memoriam
Casey McKinney10.14.09
Bye Brendan Mullen, Fanzine Owes You One, In Memoriam
The Flaming Lips get Embryonic
Mark Gluth10.13.09
The Flaming Lips have a new album out today, with a title that harkens either a new beginning or return to roots. You can guess which, but the main figuring problem (if we haven’t already) is do we opt for the $40 furry super rad version, the $13 Itunes or local indie store deluxe cd version, the $8 Best Buy basic version, rip it from a friend, or like one would as a deadhead, just get a tape of one of the live shows. Mark Gluth ponders here in fact why more don’t follow this band in a caravan like those Phishheads do (the Lips have got their own carnivalesque show on, but way, way better). So read up, then listen, it’s a doozy. Here’s Embryonic.
Fanzine Speaks! Kaya Oakes and Indie Everything
Ben Bush10.05.09
Hey special thanks to Kaya Oakes for a great time last Sunday at Skylight Books and thanks to everyone who was…
Music: The Antlers – Hospice
Casey McKinney10.01.09
Now in Atlanta, trying to use my Shazam app on the iPhone to tag every bomb hip hop drop heard while driving with knees. Prob is, most of the mixes…
The Feelies Reissues
Michael Louie09.23.09
I was just talking earlier this month to Fanzine writer Pete Hausler about Hoboken and Maxwell’s club. He told me his…
Levon!: Levon Helm, The Dirt’s Gone Electric
Brian Howe09.16.09
Brian Howe raises a glass to Levon Helm of The Band, a man Howe describes as "the only genuine Southerner in a band that mythologized the American South… He was part Paul Bunyon, part Atlas." A true Southerner indeed; Helm often found himself displaced from the land that raised him, and just as often distanced by the dichotomy of his version of the South from what the South had come to represent in his time. Howe fashions a brief, but fitting tribute.
Back to School for the Bobbies: Brian Jones Revisited
Casey McKinney09.03.09
Back to School for the Bobies: Brian Jones Revisited
DJ/rupture: Mudd Up! WFMU
Ben Bush08.25.09
When I first heard DJ/rupture’s Minesweeper Suite with its brutal combination of club hip-hop, breakcore and obscure international gems, it opened a…
Music: Dead Weather
Casey McKinney08.21.09
Been a lot of bad 70’s rip off bands since Lenny Kravitz first picked up a guitar and pillaged John Lennon* (I am thinking currently of one of those…
