Tag Archives: Alternative Rock

Wow, you know it's good when it's over too soon.

Billboard relates Pat DiNizio’s subscription plan: New Jersey-based artist Pat DiNizio, lead singer/songwriter of the Smithereens, has founded Patrons & Artists Together, a boutique entertainment partnership meant to fund his recording and touring projects and reward participants with a unique music experience, as well as provide free music via the …

Nice little bio of Cat Power in NY Times Magazine – she has a new CD reviewed here by our Jim Carruthers. like most every other song on Cat Power’s new album, ”You Are Free,” is about inquietude, balkiness, dread. Since its release in late February, ”You Are Free” has …

Pearl Jam speaks out on the impale-Bush-mask-at-concert incident: There were close to 12,000 people at the April 1st Denver show. It’s possible two dozen left during encore but it was not noticeable amongst the 11,976 who were loudly applauding and enjoying the evening’s music. It just made a better headline …

Brian wrote very interesting and powerful testimony into the mindset of the Christian fundamentalism in which he was raised, or at least schooled. He also extrapolates that experience onto President Bush, which I would caution against as an exercise in projection. The fire and brimstone imagery of Christian fundamentalism is …

I woke up today smiling, which is very unusual because I am a “morning person” only in the sense that I am a person and there is such thing as morning. Ususally it seems as though there is some force-field that oppresses me when it’s time to get up no …

That’s March in Ohio for you: I walked out the door into a stiff, damp wind-slap of about 35 degrees this afternoon and it was hard to believe that this was the same planet as last night. We’ve had a pretty crazy time of it lately: the war has weighed …

After a period of confusion where musicians mostly babbled about the war, now the actual SONGS are starting to flow fast and furious. Our James Russell has a nice roundup of anti-war songs here from the Beasties, Zach and DJ Shadow, John Mellonhead, the Billies: Bragg and Joe Armstrong. To …

The best tribute album I have heard in a very long time (better than Making God Smile, even) is dedicated to …. Lee Hazlewood. Lee whom, you may well ask? Producer, songwriter, artist, label owner, Hazlewood was an original Cosmic Cowboy, best known for his work with Duane Eddy and …

Poor Bryan, another wife has furrowed an unauthorized hoe: Rock star Bryan Ferry and his wife, Lucy, were divorced Friday after 21 years of marriage. The High Court Family Division granted Ferry, 56, and the former Lucy Helmore, 42, an uncontested divorce. The couple, who married in June 1982 and …