Archive for July, 2010
Writer Of The Week: Mountain Man
Mountain Man are neither men nor mountains. Instead, they’re three women who sing beguiling indie-folk songs, often a capella. Their debut LP, Made The Harbor, has wowed critics and landed them an invite to perform at Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival. We talked to Mountain Man member Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, the one who’s into Fleetwood Mac and [...]
Jerry Garcia Biopic Coming To The Big Screen
Jerry Garcia’s life is coming to the big screen. While it hasn’t been determined who will play the late Grateful Dead leader (Zach Galifianakis? Jeff Bridges?), director Amir Bar-Lev has been selected to direct a biopic based on Robert Greenfield’s Dark Star: An Oral Biography on Jerry Garcia. The film will focus on Garcia’s formative [...]
YouTube Relaunches Music Homepage
YouTube has relaunched the landing page for their music portal, the Google-owned video site announced today. The new design seems to invite exploring and discovering artists, with Category genre links at the top of the page, such as Blues, Classical, Country & Folk, Electronic and Jazz. The launch also puts an emphasis on music playlists. [...]
Great Quotations: Taylor Swift
“My advice to first-time songwriters would be you know the person you are writing the songs about,” she says. “First know that. Then write a letter to them, what you would say if you could. That’s why I listen to music. It says how I feel better than I could. And it says what I [...]
Lindsay Lohan Turns To Songwriting To Ease The Pain Of Jail
Get ready for Lindsay Lohan, Live From Folsom Prison style. The troubled starlet, who’s currently serving time behind bars for violating her probation, is apparently spending her time in the clink wisely. “Lindsay is going to spend her time in jail writing new songs that she will record the second she gets out,” a source [...]
Comment Of The Week: Use Somebody
We like this comment, just for the well-set up diss. Reader Jerry comments on our Kings Of Leon (one of our favorites, by the way) Shutter post: The members of Kings of Leon must get good cell reception because they phone everything in. Show some emotion on stage please. This band is starting to bore [...]
NPR To Stream The Newport Folk Festival Live
NPR and folk music — it seems like a natural fit. On July 31, NPR Music will offer a live webcast of the Newport Folk Festival. In addition, NPR Music and WFUV New York, FolkAlley.com (WKSU) Kent, Ohio, and mvyradio in Martha’s Vineyard and Newport will broadcast select sets from the Fest — air times [...]
New Music Seminar Wraps Up in New York
Founder Tony Silverman at the 2009 NMS Conference in New York. [Photo courtesy of www.newmusicseminar.com] The internet has been aflutter with the musings of the music digerati over the last few days, with the recent unveiling of new products at the New Music Seminar in New York, which ended on Wednesday. The New Music Seminar, [...]
Give The Drummer Some: A Q&A With Radiohead’s Philip Selway
Philip Selway drums for a little band called Radiohead (you might have heard of them). But his debut solo album, Familial, isn’t OK Computer part 2. Instead, it’s a folky, layered, acoustic offering that splits the difference between Nick Drake and and Will Oldham. On it, Selway trades his drum kit for a guitar, and [...]
Jack White Sings “Mother Nature’s Son” For Obama And McCartney
Check out this video clip from the upcoming PBS special on the White House tribute to Paul McCartney, airing July 28. In it, the ever intrepid Jack White performs the White Album classic “Mother Nature’s Son” in front of a star-studded audience, including McCartney and the President of the United States, as well as the [...]
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