MP3 Jonathon Coulton's website has a cool link every once in awhile. This is a cool mashup with our POTUS. Thing a week.
what is up with MMJ? Everything. They are busy busy boys. They are opening for Pearl Jam. They have a DVD coming out and They are playing for the US in the Baseball World Cup.
Black Crowes DVD.
Preview of SXSW.
myspace of Brooklyn's The Caulfield Sisters. They describe themselves best "like the wind in the trees after an ice storm--if your high.
LCD Soundsystem to Release Rarities Comp
Kati Llewellyn reports:
The spring fashion reports are in, and it appears that it's digital-onlyrelease season again. The House of DFA's first sportswear offering is Introns,a sleek, comfortable LCD Soundsystem rarities compilation, hitting digitalboutiques March 14. It will feature various B-sides and remixes, most notably"Yr City's a Sucker", the Soulwax remix of "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House",and a cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees' "Slowdive".
It's never to early for Christmas right? Anyway this is pretty funny. Secret Satan. Video.
and I think I got this from Rolling Stone magazine but I am not too sure. Update on new Dulli CD.
Twilight Singers Cut CD in N.O.
Greg Dulli's band finished album in Katrina's wake, with little power orwater Greg Dulli is no stranger to working under difficult conditions -- theTwilight Singers' second album, Blackberry Belle, was written in response tothe death of his closest friend, film director Ted Demme. But it's hard toimagine more trying circumstances than what his Twilight Singers endured inrecording the band's forthcoming Powder Burns, due May 16th. The record --which features guest vocals from singer-songwriters Ani DiFranco and JosephArthur, as well as an appearance by Dulli's ex-Afghan Whigs mate John Curley-- was completed in New Orleans just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit."It was hard to finish because the power kept going out," says Dulli. "We hadto use generators a lot of times to get the electricity going again. Therewasn't any hot water. There were rolling blackouts almost every night, andthe curfew was still in place while I was there. So it was kind of a policestate that we finished it under."
Dulli had begun the record in the Crescent City before Katrina, departed forEurope on a scheduled trip -- where he watched the destruction daily on CNN-- and returned three weeks later to finish what he had begun. Though a lotof artists might have moved on to a new locale, Dulli never viewed that as anoption.
"I had to finish it there because that's where I started it," he says simply."And New Orleans had shown me so many great times that the last thing I wasgonna do was abandon her at her hour of need. What that city needed more thananything at that time was life in it. So I was there for two months of thecurfew. It was one of the most surreal times of my life."
Along with the serious practical hardships created by the storm and theflooding, both the Twilight Singers and DiFranco, who was also recording inthe city when Katrina struck, believed their tapes might be lost. Luckily,their work was salvaged by producer Mike Napolitano, who also recordedBlackberry Belle. "Mike had to do a kamikaze-style rescue," says Dulli,"blast the roadblocks, get around the National Guard and the cops to get intothe [French] Quarter to get both my tapes and Ani's tapes."
But whatever trials Dulli endured, he says, it was nothing compared to whathe witnessed. "I went to the houses. Unless you would've seen what I saw --You could see it on television and stuff, but the 360-degree,live-on-location look of New Orleans was like Armageddon. It was the worstthing I'd ever seen."
The environment, says Dulli, "absolutely" influenced the album's sound, withfour tracks written after the disaster -- including the title track, "BonnieBrae," "Underneath the Waves" and "I Wish I Was." The latter song is a kindof tribute to the city, "sung to New Orleans as if she were a woman."
Another Powder Burns standout is the melodic, slow-grooving "Candy CaneCrawl," featuring Curley and DiFranco. Dulli says the singers came courtesyof Napolitano. "Napolitano knows everybody, and everybody loves him. So ifyou're a friend of Mike's then you're automatically friends with hisfriends."
Now a few months removed from the devastation, with a Twilight Singers tourbeginning in late May, Dulli sees Powder Burns, his eleventh album, as asnapshot of a harrowing, challenging time. "This one is a look back at arather difficult portion of my life," he says. "And probably what I take awayfrom it is, 'I can't fucking believe I'm alive.'"
Will music phones cut into iPod?
Vid from YouTube. Not safe for work. The Wet Spots "Do you take it?" It is quite hummable so be careful where you sing this one out loud.
The Faces of Meth.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth
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