Entries from February 2009

Be Your Own Elvis Costello

February 16th, 2009

That’s a nice cravat for £18.

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Studio footage of Blur recording Parklife leaks onto internets

February 13th, 2009

Producer Stephen Street has posted vintage footage of Blur in the studio recording its classic Parklife album (which he produced). The snippet shows the band working out various bits of “Magic America”, “London Loves”, and the b-side “People in Europe”, among others. The footage was shot at Maison Rouge Studios in Fulham, London in 1994. […]

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Music is my radar and Twitter is a verb

February 12th, 2009

406 bands who Twitter. Amusing to see how many bands have adopted micro-blogging as a promotional tool. It took me a while to understand the effectiveness of Twitter, much less the point. At first, I thought it was just another narcissistic cesspool like a MySpace or a Facebook, which, I suppose, on some level it is. But […]

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Paper Placentas?

February 11th, 2009

The world’s only Grammy and Oscar nominated pregnant terrorist gets featured in the NYT [photo intentionally left off of post]

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School of Seven Bells – Half Asleep

February 11th, 2009

(via GvsB)

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The Anxious Interval

February 11th, 2009

“The smartest people in the present are remembering the goldmine and sifting through its waters like a crowd of panhandlers.” Momus is either insane or brilliant. Or both.

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Trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards

February 11th, 2009

Pretty excited about this trailer, even though you have to sit through some douche bag on Entertainment Tonight in order to view it. Tarantino’s been working on this script for the better part of the decade. And since Grindhouse took a commercial nose-dive, it’ll be interesting to see how this plays out with audiences. Having […]

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