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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Kirsten Dunst to play Debbie Harry in upcoming Holywood biopic, says the NME
Andrew Weatherall news
Friday, October 12th, 2007General all-round top geezer, genius and (kind of) Mick Jones lookalike Andrew Weatherall has a blog. Read it here.
And while we’re on the subject of the man himself, here’s a personal playlist he put together for a map of how he got from teenage glam fiend to Lone Swordsman. Includes everything from the buzzing […]
If you’re looking for the cover art for the new Radiohead album
Friday, October 12th, 2007that you just downloaded - the wait is over. Here you go:
Bill
If you only have one hour of your life to listen to the Beatles…
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007…your prayers have been answered! The complete Beatles catalogue sped up 800% to fit an hour long mp3.
Details here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html
Surprisingly enough, it’s pretty tough to listen to, but, things get more interesting/better when these sped up tracks are slowed back down again. Here’s Revolution & there’s a couple of other links at the site worth […]
So, whatever happened to that baby on the cover of Nevermind?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007And that girl on the cover of the Violent Femmes first album?
Thanks to the wonders of the modern internet, we can now know. Take this link
Note: They seem to have airbrushed out the baby’s pen1s from the Nirvana album cover for some reason, too. Weird.
It’s Just Like A Cassette, But Not!
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007From here:
Remember back in the days before digital music players and MP3s?
If you do, then you probably made compilations of all your favourite music, to share with your friends and loved ones, on good old fashioned blank cassette tapes.
If you miss making mix tapes this product will inspire you again!
Haha, I’m unsure what to make […]
New Joy Division & new Mick Jones!
Thursday, August 9th, 2007From the NME (http://www.nme.com/news/30194):
Joy Division’s back catalogue is to be reissued with extra material to coincide with the release of ‘Control’, the biopic about their singer Ian Curtis.
Both the band’s studio albums, ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’, and the live album ‘Still’ will be out on September 10 featuring additional CDs of live material.
The film, directed […]
Where are my friends tonight? Again…
Thursday, July 26th, 2007Great article on the ‘melancholy greatness’ of LCD Soundsystem’s fabulous ‘All My Friends’ by Hua Hsu at Slate.
Read it here.
Big thanks go to ‘friend of nothingelseon’ James for the link.
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Talking Heads live in Rome 1980
Monday, July 23rd, 2007In more Atomic anticipation, some kind soul has uploaded the following live footage of Talking Heads to Youtube:
Talking Heads w/ Adrian Belew
December 1980
“Live in Rome”
Pro-shot live performance of Talking Heads. Another great show from the Adrian Belew era of the Talking Heads. The filming is much different than the Germany show from the same tour, […]
Hey, this ain’t my normal band … but what’s normal about a band anyway!
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Um, in the spirit of the upcoming Atomic, I offer you this: more Debbie Harry with added muppets. Now you may think that I have a thing about muppets, but I assure you not. Honest!
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