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art brut vs satan vs frank black
Dear God. Everything I love about rock and roll has just combined into some kind of glorious post-modern singularity.What the hell am I talking about? Let’s see:
Art Brut, probably the funniest/smartest band going around, also loaded with
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cat-related news roundup
Thanks to Sam, our roving feline news correspondent and long-suffering cat owner/victim:
- Bush family cat dies (possibly of shame); Bush’s nickname for cat is “Kitty”.
- Cats commence takeover of worldwide news media with German putsch; weatherman demonstrates excellent comprehension
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random awesome Dylan photos
By Jerry Schatzberg, apparently.
As a Dylan obsessive and huge fan of the latter-day, grouchy old man Dylan, it’s good to have the occasional reminder of how straight-out fucking cool he was in the 1960s (especially…
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the tallest man on earth – shallow grave
Another album review: link. -
pulp – this is hardcore
More music in the usual place: link.
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tell tale signs
I’ve written another album review over at Gigomaphone, this time for the new Dylan release, Tell Tale Signs: link. -
how far out are you bowie?
I’ve written a little CD review of Heathen by David Bowie over at Karloskar’s blog, Gigomaphone: here.
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free bob
This is good – just to prove it is the greatest radio station ever, NPR is streaming the new Bob Dylan Bootleg Series album, Tell Tale Signs.There’s plenty of interesting stuff there. Highlights for me so far (apart from…
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ain’t talkin’
Today is International Talk Like Bob Dylan Day. Rejoice, and listen to dubious impersonations here.
Or reflect that, nasal tones or not, no-one can really talk like Dylan:
If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob
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someone showed me a picture and i just laughed
It’s with a mixture of fear and incredulity that I discover that Cate Blanchett is to play none other than Bob Dylan in a film about his life and times. A suitably disturbing full-sized picture is can be seen -
i’ll know my song well before i start singin’: music and personality
I’ve always wondered in a chicken-and-egg kind of way about whether we seek out music which reflects our mood and personality, or whether the music we listen to actually dictates our mood and personality to some degree.
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pixies to play adelaide (at last, perhaps)
In addition to the Pixies playing the loathsome V Festival, they have since announced they are also playing in Tasmania and Western Australia.Now a somewhat (ahem) reliable source tells me they are likely to play at Memorial Drive in…
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band reunion-a-thon continues
Hot on the heels of this comes the (alleged) news (well, a story in The Sun so the term ‘news’ is used loosely) that Led Zeppelin is looking at reforming to tour the United States.As if…
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all we have is our music, our legions of fans, our millions of dollars and our youth
In news that will interest fans of overwrought 1990s alt-rock, the Smashing Pumpkins have not only reformed but are supposedly playing a couple of shows in Germany. Will this be a triumphant return? Have the horrors of My… -
signs and portents in the sky
Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), captured over our city last night by a friend.When beggars die there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.Seen
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