I still fondly remember seeing At the Drive-In at the Showbox in the fall of 2000. Delightfully anarchic and one of the great shows of the time:
Inspired by the likes of Sigur Ros and fellow Oklahomans The Flaming Lips, Stillwater’s Other Lives have not reinvented the wheel, or even work much outside the box. Instead, they’ve brought new elements with them into the box, re-arranging concepts and blurring genres to paint a distinctive, majestic sonic landscape that’s both astonishingly fresh and …
John Lennon was a closet Republican, who felt a little embarrassed by his former radicalism, at the time of his death – according to the tragic Beatles star’s last personal assistant. Full Story is here. But The Nation disputes the article’s claims, here.
Here’s how Johnny Kita describes his new tune: “I decided to write a song with the starting point being a poem written by my highschool and gradeschool classmate Kristin Roedell. She is a great poet and I really like her work. We reconnected on FB. You like to write poetry & I like to write …
Alfonso Ponticelli has been playing a weekly gig of Django Reinhardt music at the venerable Green Mill in Chicago for well over a year now. (Al Capone reportedly hung out at the Green Mill.) I recommend everyone go hear Ponticelli. Here he is in action at the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest in Madison, Wisconsin. Located …
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You can find Andrew’s review of O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth, here.
Lowell Fulson, singer, guitarist, and songwriter, was one of the giants of the West Coast Blues scene, a commercial and artistic success for over forty years. This brief clip from 1963 doesn’t just rock; it gives us an extremely rare glimpse of a major blues talent performing in a club setting before a black audience. …
http://youtu.be/aIpYpRobez4 From Nerve: “This week, Eguchi Aimi, the newest member of the all-girl Japanese pop group AKB48, was revealed to be a fake human. She was perfectly cute, but Eguchi was nothing more than a computer composite of her six band mates; she existed only in a virtual world. The bizarre, and clever, publicity stunt …
Thanks to Steve Stav for the tip. This collaboration was recorded for True Blood. Here’s more on the story from the KCRW blog.