July 2011
11 posts
$50K for Pulp →
perpetua:
According to this booking company, it would cost approximately $50,000 to book Pulp for a concert at a college in the United States, but only in November of 2011. This would seem to indicate that Pulp indeed have plans to play shows in North America later this year! (More commentary/context from Maria and Heather.)
So who’s starting the Kickstarter?
"The whole point of Beavis and Butt-Head's video... →
maura:
Assigning Jess Harvell a piece on Beavis and Butt-Head: Another thing to check off the “to do in life” list.
A great piece, and this bit about the subject of B&B’s “viewing,” for lack of a better word, makes total sense. I guess this puts the link between Beavis and Butt-Head and something like The Soup a lot closer than I ever considered.
I think this is one of those things where Maura... →
perpetua:
“At first, she was talented enough to get by. Live performances, although slightly edgy, were strong enough to forgive the fact that she’d obviously had a few before she went on stage. But eventually, even this all proved too much for her adoring fans and just a few months ago, the quality of her performance was so poor she was booed off stage in Serbia. There are so many parallels here...
2 tags
1 tag
Watch“Holy Holy” - Wye Oak on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
I saw Wye Oak last Friday night (in a tiny theatre room in an art museum!) and they were terrific. If anything, they were a little loud for the room, but this is a band that gets such a complex sound out of two players, not to mention writes some really exceptional tunes.
I didn’t make it up last night to watch them on Late...
1 tag
Mobile app won't let me reblog the entire post, so... →
I am thrilled to be there tonight.
How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down: People sometimes... →
People sometimes refer to this era as my “early years,” which is always pretty funny to me. When I began playing solo and heading toward the making of this album, I was pushing 30 and had been at it since my teens. I went through the 90s wringer with Chisel, and (at the risk of being too emo)…