Tag Archives: music
links for 2007-12-08: Strummer’s memorabilia
Clash man’s widow plans book | UK | Reuters Joe Strummer’s personal memorabilia stash unearthed, now to be turned into a book in collaboration with… Damien Hirst. Yeah, that’s what I thought. (tags: Joe-Strummer, Lucinda-Mellor, Damien-Hirst, Clash, punk, music, commerce, … more…
links for 2007-12-07: string vests, punch bags, robot violinist, henge tunneling, lyrical terrorist
eBay Seller: crystal passion dezigns ltd: Men’s Clothing, Men’s Accessories items on eBay.co.uk String vests not becoming historical garb, despite the Guardian’s daft story. I do not own a string vest, alas. (tags: string-vest ebay BBC daft) Store withdraws man-shaped … more…
links for 2007-12-06: Mysterious maps, Morrissey
Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers | Reuters Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he able to draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a … more…
links for 2007-12-04: Burial, electoral fraudsters
Burial interview by Emmy Hennings at Cyclic Defrost Magazine. (I know I was rather lukewarm about the first album, but the new one really is excellent) (tags: music dubstep Burial) Bush tells Putin of poll concern Pot, kettle, black. (tags: … more…
Nor shall my sword sleep at my side (just a day late)
It didn’t occur to me until today, the morning after William Blake’s 250th anniversary, to post, by way of celebration, Mark Stewart’s version of Jerusalem* with the Maffia, now 25-years-old itself, and sounding, if anything, more contemporary than it did … more…
links for 2007-11-23: Kissinger, Arthur
LRB ยท Greg Grandin: Sucking up to P A brief history of Henry Kissinger (tags: Kissinger US-foreign-policy politics globospheric) Arthur No. 27 contains an interview with Sun City Girls’ Sir Richard Bishop, written by Erik Davis and illustrated by John … more…
links for 2007-11-20: indie pop, dalai lama
Twee as Fuck The annals of indie pop, which would be capitalised as Indie Pop were it not contrary to the spirit of indie pop. (via kimdotdammit) (tags: music indie-pop pitchfork) BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Dalai Lama … more…
links for 2007-11-17: wondermark, beatles
Beatles online soon says Sir Paul Old folks say the darnedest things department. (tags: beatles mp3 music old-folks) Wondermark: #354; In which This Dude may not be Strictly Licensed Can’t recall whether I’ve linked to David Malki’s Wondermark before, or … more…
Hot Rodders Battle Rock and Roll
Ruby Short and his Dragsters – Hot Rodders Battle Rock and Roll WFMU’s 365 day Project this year has mostly offered tracks that were too desperately strange to promise much enduring appeal, to me at any rate. But I had … more…
Peel-blogging
It’s now three years since we lost him. To commemorate, here’s a run-down of some of the blogs inspired by John Peel’s singular example, in no particular order. Kat’s Karavan Recently awakened from a few months’ hiatus. This is one … more…