Archive for November, 2010
Lucinda Williams Readies Blessed
Lucinda Williams will release Blessed, the followup to 2008′s Little Honey, on March 1, 2011. The album was produced by Don Was, and features some of Williams’ strongest writing to date. A deluxe edition of Blessed will come with a bonus disc of demos of each track, recorded on the day she wrote them, dubbed [...]
Boom Chick: Show Pony
Boom Chick Show Pony Rating: So the band’s name is Boom Chick, which suggests both an emphasis on clanky, rock and roll drumbeats and the possibility that there’s a girl in the band. Both are true, as it turns out—Brooklyn guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Frank Hoier approached Moselle Spiller, a local visual artist, with the prospect of a [...]
Great Quotations: Justin Townes Earle
“I’m very much a cocktail napkin writer. I wrote pretty much the whole record [Harlem River Blues] on the memo pad in my iPhone. Dylan tried to cram as many words as he could in a line. My goal is to put as few words into a line as I can. Life just isn’t that [...]
New Bright Eyes Album Due In February
After two excellent solo albums, Conor Oberst is ready to resurrect Bright Eyes, the moniker that made him famous. The band’s seventh studio album, The People’s Key, the followup to 2007′s Cassadaga, will hit stores February 15 via Saddle Creek. The album was produced by Mike Mogis (Oberst’s longtime producer and fellow Monsters of Folk [...]
No More Auction Block: Bob Dylan’s “Times They Are A-Changin’” Lyrics Hit Sotheby’s
Deep-pocketed Dylan fans, keep an eye on Sotheby’s. The original lyric sheet for “The Times They Are A-Changin’” will go up for auction next month, expecting to fetch a price of $200-300,000. Handwritten edits show the process behind crafting the classic protest song. The 46-year-old sheets of notebook paper also include the lyrics to “North [...]
PJ Harvey Readies New Album
PJ Harvey is set to release her eighth studio album on February 14 on Island Records. Let England Shake follows the 2009 collaboration with John Parish A Woman A Man Walked By. Recorded in a 19th century church, the LP was co-produced by Harvey, Parish, Flood, and Mick Harvey. The experimental icon previewed the autoharp-heavy [...]
Paul McCartney & Wings: Band on the Run
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run MPL/Hear/Concord Rating: Whether this recent re-mastering of Paul McCartney and Wings’ Band on the Run CD (along with bonus tracks, DVD, and “enhanced packaging”) is simply a meretricious attempt to return Sir Paul’s bank balance to its pre-Heather Mills glory is anybody’s guess. What really matters, though, [...]
The Killers Get In The Christmas Spirit
The Killers may be on hiatus, but they will still be releasing their annual Christmas song. “Boots” drops digitally on November 30, with proceeds going to AIDS charity (RED). The Las Vegas band’s Christmas series has included memorable tracks such as “A Great Big Sled” and “Don’t Shoot Me Santa.” “Our Christmas single with (RED) [...]
Tannoy Reveal 501a Monitors
Tannoy Reveal 501a LIST PRICE: $229.00 www.tannoy.com Tannoy’s top-end monitors are so well regarded that one would be hard pressed to find a high-end studio that didn’t have a pair to use for master sessions. Back in the ’90s, Tannoy brought their prestige and good name within reach of the more budget conscience project studios [...]
Great Quotations: Josh Kelley
“After every show we have been getting together and writing songs and drinking. We’ve got about 20 half-finished songs and 20 fully finished bottles of whiskey. One day maybe we can flip that around.” – Josh Kelley, whose new EP, Georgia Clay, is out November 30, on touring with Miranda Lambert and Eric Church.
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