Archive for July, 2011
America Keeps Logging The Miles
It’s hard to believe, but we’re coming up on the 40th anniversary of the release of America’s debut single “Horse With No Name,” a song that was derided for relatively meaningless lyrics but still rose to the top of the charts. But America proved to be more than a one-trick pony, winning a Grammy, selling [...]
Great Quotations: They Might Be Giants
I would say the best stuff we’ve done is when you can get carried away by the music and you feel like, “I’m inventing music for the first time ever!” It can be a real splash of cold water to realize that you’re just ripping yourself off. – They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell (via [...]
Artists Pay Tribute To The Strokes’ Is This It On New Album
10 years ago, a raggedy bunch of New York kids released a grubby and glorious first record that exploded in the landscape of the post-punk revival and reminded us all what we love about rock ‘n’ roll. In honor of the 10-year anniversary of The Strokes’ debut, Stereogum presents STROKED: A Tribute To Is This [...]
New Deals Site Offers Fashion And Music Packages
Singer-songwriter Will Hoge offered a deal through the website 1Band 1Brand. With the rise of deals on the Internet, one company is finding a niche exploring the connection between fashion and music. Kyle York, along with his brother Travis and two friends, visited the music and technology conference, South By Southwest, in 2010 and noticed [...]
Keith Urban: The Most Rocking Man In Country Music?
Our critic-at-large reviews Keith Urban’s show at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 7/22/11 Keith Urban is the rock star of country music. Singing with an Aussie accent instead of a Bible Belt twang, he plays the sort of guitar-driven Southern epics that owe more to Dire Straits and John Mellencamp than contemporary [...]
Is It Okay, Or Wrong To Hate The Eagles?
One of our favorite rock writers, Steven Hyden of the AV Club, tackles The Eagles’ Greatest Hits in his ongoing “We’re No. 1″ series. Hyden rightfully points out that many self-professed Eagles haters — and there are many — are merely quoting one of the greatest movies of all time, The Big Lebowski, when they [...]
Watch: Nikki Lane, “Gone, Gone, Gone”
Newcomer Nikki Lane has just released this video for the song “Gone, Gone, Gone” from her forcoming IAMSOUND (Salem, Fool’s Gold, Men) record, Walk Of Shame. As my colleague Sean L. Maloney astutely points out, the nearest aural signifier to Lane’s music might be the cowboy psychedelia of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, those purveyors [...]
Nirvana’s Nevermind Gets The Deluxe Treatment
Get ready: a multi-format reissue of Nirvana’s watershed album Nevermind is set to drop September 27. The reissue will be available in standard, 2-CD Deluxe and 4-CD/1 DVD Super Deluxe editions through Universal Music Enterprises. The Deluxe edition features the remastered album with both live and studio B-sides, previously unreleased BBC recordings, boombox recordings of [...]
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