As The New York Times reports today (registration required) BET has a new set of animated promotions that bring to mind MTV in it’s late 80′s heyday of mixing music video programming with self-referential and sometimes even avant-garde promos. The question being raised is whether the satire “Read a Book” is racist? I’ll let you [...]
Here’s a sneak preview of Black Francis’ fantastic new album Bluefinger due out September 3rd on Cooking Vinyl. Yes Frank Black has reverted to his Pixies nom de rock and served up some fresh rock that recalls his halcyon days in that pioneering alt-rock band and his first two solo albums. The song is called [...]
The hottest thread on ILM (that’s I Love Music for the uninitiated) right now concerns Bikini Kill / Le Tigre riot grrl and feminist music icon Kathleen Hanna. Hanna is said to be teaching a graduate course in art at NYU this fall. One poster wonders if she is going to be the life model [...]
Maya Arulpragasm (aka M.I.A.) dressed for some night jogging Sri Lankan rapper/singer M.I.A. (pronounced like “maya“) is connoisseur of rhythm, a veritable beat specialist. Like James Brown, she’s never met a groove or a polyrhythm she didn’t want to ride and on her new album Kala she serves up the results on a gleaming silver [...]
Rawk out for the lord! I found this awesome site today Show and Tell Music . There is still some construction going on so pardon their appearance but it’s loaded with cool thrift store record cover art and info. Site mastermind Will (no last name) describes the site as “first & foremost as an archive/orphange [...]
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