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June 27, 2013
perpetua:
What if there were Facebook event pages for famous...
What if there were Facebook event pages for famous music videos? I really love this post by Sarah Kasulke.
June 26, 2013
"I was listening to some old Birthday Party for a while. I’ve been into really old stuff right..."
Nirvana and the Boredoms, 1993.
Nirvana and the Boredoms, 1993.
rollingstone:
From “Alive" to “Do the Evolution," Stone Gossard...
From “Alive" to “Do the Evolution," Stone Gossard has engineered some of Pearl Jam’s biggest riffs. How does he recognize a great one? “It’s usually about sort of stumbling," he says. “My methodology is not knowing what I’m doing and making that work for me. You pick up a guitar and the first thing you do is maybe you throw a capo on it, but you don’t throw it across all of the strings, and you D-tune that string, and then you strum on that for a second, and then maybe you tune u...
Attention, Ireland! I’m excited to announce that I will be...
Attention, Ireland! I’m excited to announce that I will be discussing my book Everybody Loves Our Town and all things grunge with Irish Times music writer Jim Carrollat theKilkenny Arts Festivalon Saturday, 10 August. Click here for more info on this event, part of the Banter salon series.
Hear Mark Lanegan cover John Cale’s “I’m Not...
Hear Mark Lanegan cover John Cale’s “I’m Not the Loving Kind." It’s from his "crooner-ish" covers album, Imitations, out September 17. check out the tracklist, which includes songs by Nick Cave and Hall & Oates:
01. “Flatlands” (Chelsea Wolfe)
02. “She’s Gone” (Hall & Oates)
03. “Deepest Shade”
04. “You Only Live Twice” (Nancy Sinatra)
05. “Pretty Colors” (Frank Sinatra)
06. “Brompton Oratory” (Nick Cave)
07. “Solitaire”
08. “Mack The Knife” (Bobby Darin)
09. “I’m Not The Loving Kind” (John Cale)
10. “...
June 25, 2013
guerrillacandy:
Regular Guerrilla Candy readers will remember...
Regular Guerrilla Candy readers will remember thatI interviewed Stoneback in April whenhe was doing promotionto advance the album. And while Evil Little Goats is still very much in its infancy, we decided to go big for episode 3 which is simply titledThe Stone Gossard Interview.
Yes, that’s right, you can hear my interview with Stone during this episode. Not only does he talk about the status of the new Pearl Jam album and whether the band plans to perform a concert in Seattle a...
