I’m usually good at titles, but I’m at a loss with this one. So I’m reaching out to you, my loyal and deeply loving fans, to name this for me. This is a demo version — there might be another recording on the album, since I just did this in my living room — but […]
Tag Archives: Music
On Leslie Feist, Briefly
Leslie Feist chooses her singles very well. I have her first album (or second, but first that anybody ever heard), and of all the songs on it, I like “Mushaboom” best. Same with “1234”, which is an incredibly lovely song. At her best — these songs — her work has a sort of wistfulness and…not […]
Red State Soundsystem on Twitter!
(Note: all RSS news will move to the band site when I’ve finished the content management system.) You can now follow Red State Soundsystem in all our glory by pointing your browser at our Twitter page. Any band news, info and updates will be cc’d over there.
Scatterlings + Refugees: Digital Single
Go here. Download freely. Feel free to use the ‘Donate’ button — I’m asking for 99 cents, but it’s definitely optional. And please, please, please: if you like it, link to it. Link to it everywhere. Digg it. Reddit it. Facebook it. MySpace it. Blog it. Everywhere you can. I want people to hear this. […]
Scatterlings And Refugees: The Production (Woot!)
Mixing “Scatterlings And Refugees”, which has — almost but not quite inexplicably — turned into South African township jive. (I say “not quite” because this song always wanted to be Paul Simon’s “The Obvious Child”, and if you know the other song, you’ll really hear it when I make this available.) It’s all big drumlines […]
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview : Rolling Stone
Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview : Rolling Stone A remarkable interview with Bono. I really don’t get why some people hate him so much — if they’d bother to listen to what he’s saying, he’s incredibly bright and incredibly committed to these goals he’s set for himself. He’s one of the people I admire most […]
UNKLE @ Vegoose
…was fucking incredible. I caught five minutes of Muse. Eh. Alright. Not great. But UNKLE was amazing. Eight piece — drummer, keyboardist, DJ, bassist, two guitarists at any time, Gavin Clark on vocals and James Lavelle mixing and singing. The Thom Yorke, Ian Astbury and Josh Homme tracks were prerecorded vocals, but Gavin and James […]
Vegoose
James from UNKLE and his management were nice enough to get me a ticket to Vegoose on Sunday, so if you’re there, look for me. I’m hard to miss.
Rockity Rock Rocky Rock Rock Rock
Somehow, I’ve managed to write a goddamn Weezer song. (The song is called “Sky Blue” and it’s probably going to be the single, because it’s a pop song. Fuck you, I can write pop rock songs too.) We’re going to record all live instrumentation + vocals at Ryan Marth’s home studio. ‘Cause he’s got a […]
Loud-Ass Guitars
Because you said we didn’t rock: a thirty second snippet of the new version of “When You Get Here”. (Notice the resemblance to Jesus & Mary Chain, MBV, Sigur Ros, et al.)