'I had a moment of unexpected compassion for him'
Wednesday 15 April 2015
Coming October 6th
M Train is a journey through eighteen “stations.” It begins in
the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black
coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and
writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts
fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape
of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul
in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer’s society in Berlin; from
the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith
buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath,
Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer’s
craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including
her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose
untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the
consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this
exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white
Polaroids taken by Smith herself
The Apartments - Twenty One
I can just tell that this is going to be very high in the song o'the year charts come December here at Exile Towers
Tuesday 14 April 2015
Ryan Adams and The Shining - Live @Coachella (12/4/15)
01. Let It Ride
02. Banter (Galaga)
03. Stay With Me
04. This House Is Not For Sale
05. Dirty Rain
06. Banter (Dirty Rain, Band Intros)
07. Blue Light
08. Magnolia Mountain
09. Banter (That's Music)
10. When the Stars Go Blue
11. Banter (17 Minute Guitar Solo)
12. Oh My Sweet Carolina
13. Banter (Thank You's)
14. Come Pick Me Up > Outro
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Man - Bananas (Live @The Roundhouse 12/76)
Here's a photo of one of my oldest friends, ex Fall manager Richard Thomas 'interviewing' Deke Leonard & Terry Williams at his Laugharne Festival last weekend. The session was filmed for BBC Wales so hopefully it will surface in the not too distant future
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Sunday 12 April 2015
Dave & Stewart Wise: The End of Music (1978)
I still have the 1983 edition of this but the link above is to the full original text. Review by Stewart Home here
Mark Stewart - As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade / The Resistance of the Cell / Hysteria (Ramsgate 10/4/15)
Mark Stewart, Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald and Friends, Live Mix by Adrian Sherwood. Voice offstage provided by Jenni BelleStar
Saturday 11 April 2015
The Normal - Warm Leatherette (The Car Crash Stretch Version)
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Here are cover versions of 'Warm Leatherette' by J.G. Thirwell, Suzy Quatro, Grace Jones, Velocity Star (ft Rose McDowall) and more
Friday 10 April 2015
FIRST LOOK - True Detective: Season 2 (Tease)
True Detective starring Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch premieres June 2 (HBO)
Thursday 9 April 2015
Tuesday 7 April 2015
Monday 6 April 2015
Wednesday 1 April 2015
The winner of the 2015 April Fool's prank award goes to...
But you gotta love this one too, especially as people are still falling for it hours later
Monday 30 March 2015
Sunday 29 March 2015
Saturday 28 March 2015
Submerged VS Bill Laswell - The Driven
The Driven describes the people running loose in the interior of the mental health section of the prison. "Auto-PILOT" - as fellow resident Semyon Bumagin called them. We were never sure if the Russian really had Alzheimer's, was faking in hopes of a reduced sentence, or was gaming us so well that us being unable to tell was all a part of his master plan.
Submerged - beats / synthesizers
Bill Laswell - bass guitar / bass noise
Balázs Pándi - live drums
Matt Labozza - effectron II / guitars / noise
SHVLFCE - artwork
Summoned by Submerged at Black Site Studio
Submerged vs. Bill Laswell "The Driven"
taken from the forthcoming album
After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?
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