Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 26-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. I get to the Vietnamese restaurant first, wearing a black lace dress, high heels and stockings. Sterling arrives in jeans and a [...]
Portland, Ore.-based Miles Kurosky is what old-time journalists used to call a “great quote.” He’s one of the few interview subjects you’ll find in the music biz these days who’s totally unafraid to step on a few toes to get his point across. And he’s got the musical chops to back up his shoot-from-the-hip posture. [...]
Dutch electronic artist Solex (a.k.a. Elisabeth Esselink) has joined up with husband and wife (and Boss Hog members) Cristina Martinez and Jon Spencer to create an album. The genre-defying Amsterdam Throwdown, King Street Showdown! will be out May 18 on Bronzerat Records. The video below explains how this unlikely combination all came together, in the form of [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Ryan Bingham Rerun from February 9. Rodeo bull rider turned singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham just won an Academy Award for best original song for “The Weary Kind” from the motion picture Crazy [...]
Portland, Ore.-based Miles Kurosky is what old-time journalists used to call a “great quote.” He’s one of the few interview subjects you’ll find in the music biz these days who’s totally unafraid to step on a few toes to get his point across. And he’s got the musical chops to back up his shoot-from-the-hip posture. [...]
If you’re yearning for spring—or, at least, the thought of it—then Club 8‘s Latin American-inflected “Western Hospitality” should help alleviate the winter blues while awaiting the real thing. Before recording their upcoming seventh LP, The People’s Record (Labrador), the veteran Swedes traveled to Brazil and listened to a plethora of ’70s-era West African records for inspiration, [...]
MAGNET’s Mitch Myers files his fifth round of notes from the SXSW Festival. I have to say that the sad news of Alex Chilton’s death affected some folks down here at SXSW, and I was definitely one of them. Let me go on the record to say that when I was a kid, the very [...]
Portland, Ore.-based Miles Kurosky is what old-time journalists used to call a “great quote.” He’s one of the few interview subjects you’ll find in the music biz these days who’s totally unafraid to step on a few toes to get his point across. And he’s got the musical chops to back up his shoot-from-the-hip posture. [...]
This very strange and psychedelic video for Yeasayer’s “O.N.E.” takes place in a fucked-up futuristic nightclub, with particular focus on the shape-shifting, Morpheus-like main character playing a bizarre board game while the band performs in a cage. “O.N.E.” is off the New York trio’s second album, Odd Blood, out now on Secretly Canadian. The single’s [...]
