Posts Tagged ‘ indie rock ’
So the 00’s come to an end with a whimper, not a bang. These 25 albums were all great but I’d be lying if I told you that there was another 25 I was anguished about leaving off the list. Even so Dylan, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Raekwon, Monsters of Folk, Talbot Tagora and M. [ READ MORE ]
Merritt shows off three dog-droppingly different shades of brown… Tucked amongst the advertising folderol and nude Freaky Friday pics of this week’s New York magazine fashion issue was a piece on precious New Yorkers who only wear one color. And in no case was that color black. Turns out Magnetic Fields maestro Stephin Merritt has a wardrobe [ READ MORE ]
Electrelane: Watch out for that chandelier Awesomely cool all-femme brit band Electrelane has decided to call it quits for now. In a statement on their website they write: “We have decided that the upcoming gigs will be our last for the foreseeable future. After ten years of much fun and hard work, we have realised that [ READ MORE ]
Pavement: “Let’s try playing more ‘black’, fellas…” The article that’s been heating up the musical parts of Blogachusetts this week is Sasha Frere-Jones’ New Yorker piece entitled “A Paler Shade of White”. On the surface the argument appears to be a bold attack on a very early nineties music-crit trope: white people stole rock from black [ READ MORE ]
Black Francis — “Logging” some time in the studio, he “wood” “branch” out and “leaf” his old name behind…heh heh..uh yeah I know that’s so lame. After breaking up the Pixies via fax machine in the early 90’s Black Francis commenced his solo career as Frank Black. As Frank Black, Charles Thompson (as his parents named [ READ MORE ]