Jeez, what’s up with the suggestive album title, Joanna Newsom?
Whatever. I definitely need this one. Every audiophile’s favorite harpist releases her third full-length masterpiece, Have One On Me, on February 23. It’s already on Art Dudley’s 2011 “Records To Die For” list.
Oh: It’s going to be a three LP package. You can listen to a track called “’81” at the Drag City website. It’s very good. Joanna's having a little party in the Garden of Eden, and she's naked as a trout.
The album's initial vinyl pressing all but sold out on the band's first tour and has been only available in scant numbers or from ebay-based price gougers ever since.
We are happy to be able to offer this music to you, the fan, on vinyl again at a reasonable price. Pressed on a 140-gram…
From 1957-65, W. Eugene Smith, who had been one of America’s most successful photojournalists, retreated to a 4th-floor walk-up on 6th Avenue and 28th Street in Manhattan and took pictures from his window—over 1,000 rolls worth—of life’s spontaneous carnival out on the street.
Next door, the composer Hall Overton was running a late-night rehearsal studio for jazz musicians. Smith started photographing them…
Directed by Focus Creeps.
Yes. If you have a television, you might have also heard this song in a certain Radio Shack commericial. There was a time in my life when that kind of thing would have bothered me. I'm okay with it now. (I gotta say, though, this Acura ad is killing me.)
The triple-LP is scheduled to be released on February 23, and can be pre-ordered from Drag City now.
69 Love Songs, however, is something else. “If it were reissued on vinyl,” I thought to myself, “I’d just have to buy it…
While kicking around the Merge website, I learned about the upcoming album, Volume Two, from She & Him. M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel make some beautiful music together, and Zooey hypnotizes me with her voice and her big blue eyes. The album is scheduled to be released on March 23, and is available for pre-order now.
Here's a video for "Mote," from the 1990 album, Goo. "Mote" is one of my all-time favorite SY songs and the one that defined my appreciation for Lee's work.
And here's the band performing "Mote" live, just a few years ago, somehow still with as much fire as when they first released it.
His new album with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Portrait in Seven Shades, lays out musical equivalents of paintings by Monet, Dali, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Chagall, and Pollock—a conventional lot (MoMA 101, you might call it), but that makes his task more challenging because most people know these paintings, they know how they feel when they look at them, so they’ll know very quickly how Nash stacks up.
It’s good to see Nash…