Category: Miscellaneous Music

drifting with scott walker

N.B.-- According to a publicist at Scott Walker's current label, 4AD, "Due to the complicated printing process involved with the detailed nature of the packaging, the release date has been slightly delayed. Previously May 9th - it will now be released o… more »

Magic Band Member speaks of beefheart

ART TRIPP IS ED MARIMBA IS TED CACTUS more »

lou don't like shirts

a steal at $95,000,000.00

"Dora Maar With Cat," a 1941 portrait by Picasso. more »

Boo, Hoo. media indusTRY cries about "piracy' while profits top billions

MEDIA MOGULS TARGET "PIRATES" MEDIA INDUSTRY CLAIMS PIRACY HURTS BOTTOM LINE Yet, TIME WARNER’S PROFITS ARE UP 60% TIME WARNER MAKES $1,460,000,000.00 IN PROFITS BERTELSMANN, PART OWNER OF SONY/BMG, SEES PROFITS RISE more »

Meat is an instrument

FINANCIAL TIMES “The Drift, [Scott Walker's] first album since Tilt in 1995, should do his cult appeal no harm, for it distances him so far from mainstream pop that it seems to exist in a musical galaxy of its own devising. Alternately unsettling and ri… more »

Analysis of scott walker's brooding new album "The Drift"

NEW YORK MAGAZINE "Walker, who is 63, has one of the greatest voices in pop history, and in his younger days, when he battled orchestras as part of the sixties pop group the Walker Brothers, he was not afraid to use it. What he has lost—not much—in full… more »

Sweet & Hoffs Live "Under The Covers"

CHICAGO SUN TIMES "I called Matthew up about two years ago to sing with the Bangles one night at [the L.A. club] McCabes,” says Susanna Hoffs. “We were doing a fund-raiser -- and he mentioned to me during a break in rehearsal that he always wanted to pr… more »

Dick Dale Still Riding High

PIONEER PRESS "There wasn't anything called surf rock until [Dick Dale] came along," said Bob Berryhill, guitarist for the Surfaris (who did the surf classic "Wipe Out"). "Dick happened to be the one Leo Fender gave the first reverb unit to," says Berr… more »

MUNCIE WELCOMES THE FOUR FRESHMEN

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All Hail King Schreiber!

WASHINGTON POST "I think people assume I'm this huge, elitist jerk." more »

A Favorite Of Brian Wilson's, The Four Freshmen's Harmonies Still Ring Clear

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Ride The Wild Surf

REVIEW OF SURF MOVIE POSTER BOOK DUMB ANGEL MAGAZINE BLOG more »

Tapes 'N' Tapes Sign To XL

PIONEER PRESS Buzz band Tapes 'n' Tapes, who got tons of love for their self-released debut album "The Loon," have signed to hip indie label XL. Cool. more »

Van Dyke Parks Provides Notes (Both Musical And Written) For "Under The Covers Vol. 1"

“In the real world, Sid n Susie are Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs – two navigators in the pop musical current, current tense vocally and as tunesmiths with prime craft of their own write. They’ve bagged the best of the ‘60s, with uncanny insight. I… more »