[A couple full-album downloads for your Thursday:] A little synchronicity from a recent trip to my native Midwest: Stopping by the Firebird club in St. Louis to take in a solo set by Adam Franklin, I caught the opening set from St. Louis trio Glass Waves. Their languid, shoegazey rock went down like a cold […]
[Birthday cheers today for Emmylou Harris, who, via her website, points well-wishers to her favorite charity, the Keeta Fund …] It’s a massive evening for shows, starting with biggies like Lily Allen at the Wiltern and Will Oldham, as Bonnie “Prince” Billy, at the El Rey Theatre. … It’s almost criminal that Billy is playing […]
[Afternoon quickies while I listen to the rain and the nice new album by Elvis Perkins in Dearland … and if you need some accompaniment whilst reading this, here’s a stream of” Jason Bentley’s take on West Indian Girl’s “All My Friends,” one of a series of remixes the band just completed. WIG plays the […]
[Good things come in threes?] Neko Case and Anti- Records are giving it away — on two fronts. She is offering “People Got a Lotta Nerve” — the first single from her forthcoming album, “Middle Cyclone” — for free download. And then, for each blog that hosts the download, the artist and her label will […]
[Quick notes for a Friday morning … ] ‣ I’ll miss the puppets too. L.A. three-piece the Spores, who combined brash electro-rock with a wildly theatrical stage presentation that included edgy and fanciful puppet characters, have called it quits after five years. ‣ The Blur reunion seems to have everybody atwitter — and wouldn’t their […]
