http://youtu.be/qAkubiZhly4 “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest …
This is amazing, the most subtle, visionary use of bluegrass instrumentation which I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard a good deal. – EPB Oh Jesus. These guys were all toddlers when I was a punk/indie DJ in Charlottesville 20 years ago, and WNRN didn’t exist. The world keeps renewing itself. – Grant Cogswell (www.underthevolcanobooks.com) Haunting …
. Chavela Vargas is something of a legend in Mexico City where I live. She’s still making records at 91. Muse to both the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar and the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (and reputedly also her lover), her endurance, depth of passion, outsized personality, and gorgeously fierce voice make here one-of-a-kind. She was …
We have to find an intelligence, once again, to hang at our center, and call us to sense, from the faintest distances, to carry us through and let us reimagine this for where we are now. It won’t be anything we’ve seen before. – Grant Cogswell (www.underthevolcanobooks.com) Cascadia Film Collective Website Grassroots, the film, website …