Thom Yorke performed with his new, yet to be named band, at a few shows in LA over the weekend. At the shows they played Yorke’s solo album, The Erasure, in it’s entirety as well as debuting four brand spankin’ new songs on his own. It has yet to be determined whether these songs are [...]
Thom Yorke’s New Band
One thing is for sure, Thom Yorke keeps the music industry and fans on their heels. Everything that he does seems to be clouded in mystery, whether it be releasing or not releasing a new EP via a cryptic message contained in a new track or sneaking around LA rehearsing with a new band featuring [...]
Sun Kil Moon. Sun Kil vampires, too.
Earlier today I interrogated Patrick about these seven words in his “Culture Clash” post: “to the dismay of indie music lovers.” Context: Yesterday the track list to Twilight: New Moon was released to the enjoyment of millions of tweens that oh so want to be a vampire in love and to the dismay of indie [...]
“And I feel them drown my name/so easy to know/and forget with this kiss that I’m not afraid to go”
Your history with Jeff Buckley is probably similar to mine. It was late 1997, early 1998. That great and mysterious door that opens once every ten centuries was closing with a slow, terrible moan. Chronic fear of death by computer glitch or accidental ICBM launch. Or intentional ICBM launch: both Kashmiri nations test nuclear weapons. [...]
If you haven’t already heard
We missed this one by several days, but I’m filing it under New Music Tuesdays anyway. Weirdo hottie Natasha Khan dba Bat for Lashes has released her second LP, Two Suns. Her Myspace page quotes Thom Yorke as having said “I love the harpsichord and the sexual ghost voices and bowed saws. This song seems [...]
Volkov Nietzsche, page by page
Blogging Shostakovich and Stalin turned out to be a non-starter. There’s not much there for the music listener; mostly footnoted spats with other historians. Pure minutia. So we turn from a music book to the music book: The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Nietzsche. The Birth of Tragedy was [...]
