When Ryan Adams first announced that he would be releasing a cover of Taylor Swift's 1989, he said it would be recorded in the style of Bruce Springsteen and the Smiths. (And if that wasn't enough to pique the interest of apoplectic rockists everywhere, he then used a T-shirt design that reimagined 1989 as the cover of Sonic Youth's classic 1990 album, Goo, as album art.) Today Adams finally debuted the full album of covers to much fanfare, and while it does cite his intended influences at times, the idea of emulating iconic sounds while covering Taylor Swift could have gone to much more extreme places. Enter Father John Misty. Not to be outdone by Adams's big attempt to unite poptimists and rockists everywhere, the folk-rock troubadour also known as Josh Tillman has released his own pair of covers from 1989 — "Welcome to New York" and "Blank Space" — recorded in...
- 9/21/2015
- by Lauretta Charlton
- Vulture
This writer is going to use this moment to reveal something he's long kept a secret from many people: I'm a Rufus Wainwright fan. That's right, this cantankerous, snarky writer can't help but get caught up in the musician's larger-than-life pop songs and is probably the only person around these parts looking forward to his new album Out Of The Game. And Montreal's proud son has snagged a pretty great actress to star is the first video off the album.
Helena Bonham Carter pins up her hair and puts on some glasses to play a librarian with a bit of a kinky side in the video. Wainwright himself stars as three different people who visit the library....and oh shit, is he wearing a t-shirt for Sonic Youth's Goo? Memories...Anyway, check it out below. The Mark Ronson-produced album lands on May 1st. [Vulture]...
Helena Bonham Carter pins up her hair and puts on some glasses to play a librarian with a bit of a kinky side in the video. Wainwright himself stars as three different people who visit the library....and oh shit, is he wearing a t-shirt for Sonic Youth's Goo? Memories...Anyway, check it out below. The Mark Ronson-produced album lands on May 1st. [Vulture]...
- 4/3/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The Brooklyn photographer's latest book, Redheaded Peckerwood, is strange and beautiful despite its subject – an epic killing spree that has haunted America since 1958
In January 1958, Charles Starkweather, a 20 year-old from Lincoln in Nebraska, and Caril Fugate, his 14-year-old girlfriend, embarked on a two-month killing spree that would result in the deaths of 10 people. Starkweather's first victims were Fugate's mother, stepfather and two-year-old sister. The couple hid the bodies, then holed up in Fugate's family home, discouraging visitors with a note pinned to the door that read: "Stay a Way Every Body is sick with the Flue."
When a relative grew suspicious and called the police, the couple fled – so beginning a deadly adventure that by turns mesmerised and appalled the American media and public. They were eventually captured in Douglas, Wyoming. Starkweather went to the electric chair in 1959 and Fugate began an 18-year sentence in Nebraska Correctional Centre for Women.
In January 1958, Charles Starkweather, a 20 year-old from Lincoln in Nebraska, and Caril Fugate, his 14-year-old girlfriend, embarked on a two-month killing spree that would result in the deaths of 10 people. Starkweather's first victims were Fugate's mother, stepfather and two-year-old sister. The couple hid the bodies, then holed up in Fugate's family home, discouraging visitors with a note pinned to the door that read: "Stay a Way Every Body is sick with the Flue."
When a relative grew suspicious and called the police, the couple fled – so beginning a deadly adventure that by turns mesmerised and appalled the American media and public. They were eventually captured in Douglas, Wyoming. Starkweather went to the electric chair in 1959 and Fugate began an 18-year sentence in Nebraska Correctional Centre for Women.
- 12/1/2011
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
"Twenty years ago," blogs the New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones today, "I spent an afternoon shuffling around Rocks In Your Head, a record store that once did business on Prince Street. (It closed in 2006.) My friend Jim worked the counter, and we were listening to a new album, over and over: Nirvana's Nevermind. At some point, Vernon Reid — the guitar player and founder of Living Colour — came in. He listened to four songs, nodded approvingly, and approached the counter. 'Metallica plus R.E.M. That's really smart.' He bought a copy and left."
Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills, who formally announced the amicable dissolution of R.E.M. yesterday, will surely be hoping their band will be remembered as more than half the formula for another band ten years their junior (and, for what it's worth, I personally believe they will be), but if this anecdote is the first...
Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills, who formally announced the amicable dissolution of R.E.M. yesterday, will surely be hoping their band will be remembered as more than half the formula for another band ten years their junior (and, for what it's worth, I personally believe they will be), but if this anecdote is the first...
- 9/22/2011
- MUBI
Of all the bands who scored big during the alternative rock revolution of the early 1990s, no group went more mainstream with a more abrasive, complicated sound than Sonic Youth (well, except maybe Mudhoney). Their sound, which melds together downtown New York noise rock with bits of punk, jazz, metal and psychedelia, should never have been considered populist enough for major label exposure, and yet the band signed an extremely lucrative long-term deal with Dgc records in 1990 (even before Kurt Cobain kicked off the grunge revolution). Their first major label effort, 1990's Goo, was certainly more accessible, but the band made a true bid for the mainstream with Dirty, which came out on this day in 1992.
Dirty was produced by alt-rock go-to guy Butch Vig (who had previously made a name for himself producing Nirvana's Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish) and featured some of the band's tightest, punchiest and shortest tunes.
Dirty was produced by alt-rock go-to guy Butch Vig (who had previously made a name for himself producing Nirvana's Nevermind and Smashing Pumpkins' Gish) and featured some of the band's tightest, punchiest and shortest tunes.
- 7/21/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
If you happen to be in Northampton, Massachusetts today, you should remember a few things. First, it's going to be cold and a little rainy, so bring a jacket and an umbrella. Second, the best lunch spot in town is Jake's on King Street. Also, Dynamite Records mysteriously closed, which is heartbreaking in ways that can barely be expressed. Finally, if you happen to spot local luminary Kim Gordon at Raven Used Books, make sure you wish her a happy birthday.
The Sonic Youth bassist turns 57 years old today, and she can feel good about not only being a part of one of the greatest bands in history but also about being a part of one of the coolest families in the universe. Gordon married bandmate Thurston Moore in 1984, and the couple had daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore 10 years later. Though Sonic Youth made a name for themselves in New...
The Sonic Youth bassist turns 57 years old today, and she can feel good about not only being a part of one of the greatest bands in history but also about being a part of one of the coolest families in the universe. Gordon married bandmate Thurston Moore in 1984, and the couple had daughter Coco Hayley Gordon Moore 10 years later. Though Sonic Youth made a name for themselves in New...
- 4/28/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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