Caryn Rose's Blog, page 19
December 29, 2011
my best shows of 2011
Even I am not immune to the year-end listing process. Here's my list of favorite/best shows of 2011. It's so skewed as to representative of nothing except my particular universe – but it's not like I'm pretending that 2012 isn't going to be a laundry list of Springsteen and Afghan Whigs shows.
1. Twilight Singers, San Francisco
2. Wild Flag, Bell House
3. U2, Montreal night 1
4. Big Audio Dynamite, Roseland
5. Horrible Crowes, Bowery Ballroom
6. Twilight Singers, Webster Hall
7. Gaslight Anthem...
December 22, 2011
In Search of the Joshua Tree
I care a lot about visiting the various sites of rock and roll history, whether it's the former site of the Cavern Club or the Finsbury Park Astoria or the Palladium or 213 Bowery or the bank that used to be the Fillmore East. But clearly I am close to something very much resembling insane to wake up at 6 a.m. in Las Vegas, rent a car, and head four hours into the desert to look for a dead tree.
Yes. We went looking for The Joshua Tree.
This all started a few years ago, when I brought up a B...
December 13, 2011
B-sides and Broken Hearts: recent promo
Lots of amazing things going on:
Three Imaginary Girls list B-sides in their Imaginary Gift Guide – Books for Movie and Music Fans
There's an interview with me on Another Rainy Saturday
Great review of the book in The Big Takeover (print only)
And many more, which you can read about on the book's website.
I'll also be appearing at the reading series at Pete's Candy Store (along with Rosie Schaap) on January 26, 2012.
December 9, 2011
F**k Yeah, Setlists
This week over at Fuck Yeah, Setlists I've donated five setlists from my collection: Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, R.E.M., Springsteen and the New York Dolls. If you like setlists, it's an amazing site. If you've got your own setlists, he's always looking for submissions!
December 1, 2011
Dublin, 1984.
I reminisce about rock and roll tourism, U2 style, in ye olde pre-internet days over at Scatter o' light.
November 17, 2011
Welcome to Mats City: the NYC "Color Me Obsessed" afterparty
Tonight, Gorman Bechard's Color Me Obsessed finally made it to New York City, and #1 Mats Fan Jesse Malin organized a homecoming party worthy of the movie, the band, and the fans. Highlights included Patrick Stickles from Titus Andronicus absolutely nailing "Sixteen Blue," Kevn Kinney's lovely "Here Comes A Regular," Tommy Ramone (who, you may remember, produced Tim) singing "If Only You Were Lonely," – the list goes on, and on, and on, but was capped off (in my opinion) by the video above...
Welcome to Mats Town: the NYC "Color Me Obsessed" afterparty
Tonight, Gorman Bechard's Color Me Obsessed finally made it to New York City, and #1 Mats Fan Jesse Malin organized a homecoming party worthy of the movie, the band, and the fans. Highlights included Patrick Stickles from Titus Andronicus absolutely nailing "Sixteen Blue," Kevn Kinney's lovely "Here Comes A Regular," Tommy Ramone (who, you may remember, produced Tim) singing "If Only You Were Lonely," – the list goes on, and on, and on, but was capped off (in my opinion) by the video above...
November 7, 2011
Review: "Everybody Loves Our Town," Mark Yarm
Mudhoney at the Croc, 2000
I moved to Seattle in March of 1995. I had to get out of New York City, and it was Seattle over Chicago or San Francisco because I had a friend offering me a free room in her house. I was a jaded New Yorker who knew that living in Seattle didn't mean I was going to run into Chris Cornell shopping for green beans any more that living in New York meant you ran into Lou Reed when you went out to buy milk. It was post-grunge, post-Nirvana, post-Everett True. It was two ...
November 1, 2011
Remembering Achtung Baby, 20 Years On
I remember Achtung Baby as the record where it was not just about what and who U2 were as it was about what and who they weren't. At the time, people weren't just U2 fans, you were either fans of the Joshua Tree- era U2 who didn't love what was perceived as this sudden change, or you were the people who were starting to — not so much lose interest towards the end of that particular phase (including, by all accounts, the band themselves), but might have tired of some of it just a tad, and you ...
