Here’s a video of Low performing at Station To Station in Minneapolis. Below is a link to Pitchfork and lots more videos.
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Monthly Archives: September 2013
Watch: Volcano Choir In Madison
Watch: Pixies’ “What Goes Boom”
This week the Pixies performed “What Goes Boom” on “Later… with Jools Holland.”
Deconstructing Station To Station “Nomadic Happening”
Earlier this week, while lunching at a steakhouse in Barstow, CA, Los Angeles artist and Station To Station mastermind Doug Aitken said his art project “is kind of a living organism… I like encounters; I like randomness and physicality.”
In a a strong feature in the New York Times today, writer Melena Ryzik does a great job of getting at the heart of what Station To Station is all about. The three week traveling art and music exhibit which ends today at Oakland’s 16th Station with, among other things, performances by No Age and Savages.
Read Ryzik’s story in the Times.
Watch: Superchuck Rock Jimmy Fallon Show
Last night (Sept. 27, 2013) on the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” Superchunk lit into “Void” off the new album, I Hate Music. Group members seemed to get a kick out of hearing Fallon say the name of the album after they finished playing. Pretty funny to see the group deliver a balls-out rock performance for a song off an album called…
Anyway, check it out:
While you’re at it check out “Me & You & Jackie Mittoo,” also off the new album.
And don’t forget that Arcade Fire will be on “Saturday Night Live” tonight (Sept. 28, 2013) after which their half hour concert special will air.
Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Moved To Prison Hospital
Five days into her hunger strike, Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who is serving a two-year sentence at the Russian prison camp, Penal Colony No. 14, was today (Friday, Sept. 27, 2013) transferred to the penitentiary’s hospital, according to her husband, Pyotr Versilov, who posted the news on Twitter.
Versilov said a prison doctor had described his wife’s condition as “terrible,” according to Agence France-Presse.
“Nadya is now in hospital, but they’re refusing to provide documents about that, or to meet the defence [team], he said. “A blockade has begun.”
Tolokonnikova’s lawyer, Dmitry Dinze was quoted in Russian media as saying she is very weak with low blood pressure and low blood sugar.
In an open letter made public at the beginning of this week, Tolokonnikova said she was going on a hunger strike to protest what she described as “slavery-like conditions” at the camp including “16 or 17 hour” work days.
On Wednesday, two days after she started her hunger strike, Tolokonnikova was put in solitary confinement.
“The prison administration claimed that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova had been placed in isolation for her own protection, but we are concerned this could be yet another punishment for demanding that her own rights and the rights of other inmates are respected,” Sergei Nikitin, Director of Amnesty International’s office in Moscow, said in a statement on the Amnesty website. ”What authorities should do is investigate the allegations she made.”
On Thursday Tolokonnikova alleged that she was being denied drinking water and that a guard had grabbed her arms and shoulders. She said it was the first use of physical force against her at the work camp.
Prison officials refute Tolokonnikova’s allegations. They also deny that there is anything unusual or abusive about conditions at the camp.
Tolokonnikova has been serving a two-year sentence since August of 2012 after being convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” She is due for release in March 2014.
For more on this story go to the Huffington Post.
Watch: Arcade Fire Hit The Airwaves Saturday Night
Arcade Fire will score a doubleheader Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 when they guest on “Saturday Night Live,” and then have their own 30 minute concert special afterwords, also on NBC. The group is going higher profile in advance of their new album, Reflektor, which will be released October 29.
Here’s a trailer for the concert:
MSN Shutters Rock Critic Robert Christgau’s Blog
- Photo by Carola Dibbell.
Robert Christgau, self-described “Dean of Rock Criticism, has had his music blog, Expert Witness, cancelled by Microsoft’s MSN.
At Christgau’s website he wrote on Sept. 20, 2013:
“Just woke up so I won’t go into too much detail at the moment, but now I can make it official. As rumored, Expert Witness will be no more at MSN as of October 1. As I understand it, Microsoft is shutting down the entire MSN freelance arts operation at that time, including its film coverage, where the estimable Glenn Kenny has done so much good work, as well as my music colleagues Maura Johnston, Alan Light, and the other bloggers. I got this news 12 days ago, at which time I’d stockpiled enough reviews to get me through my last scheduled post on September 27, and since I do write for money stopped all CG-style writing at that time. I’ll have more to say in the hours and days to come, but that’s the nub of it. Thanks to all who comment here and all who lurk and all who never look at the comments because in the online world that’s usually such a waste of time, as it has never been here.”
For more of the story, head to Consequence of Sound.
Listen: Lee Ranaldo Premiers Trippy “Ambulancer”
Lee Ranaldo’s second post-Sonic Youth album, Last Night On Earth, will be released October 8 on Matador. Meanwhile he’s given us a second preview with the release of “Ambulancer,” a track that shows off the album’s psychedelic sound.
“When this song started out, on acoustic guitar, the riff that I began with reminded me of Neil Young’s ‘Ambulance Blues’ in some way – which is a song I love dearly,” Ranaldo told Rolling Stone. “It’s turned out nothing like that but that initial spark carried over into the finished lyrics.”
Rejected Hemingway Story Finally Published
An early short story by Ernest Hemingway, “My Life in the Bull Ring with Donald Ogden Stewart,” was rejected by Vanity Fair in 1925. The story, a humorous recounting of a Hemingway adventure in Spain, is now online.
You can read it here.
And The Guardian has published a fascinating story about Hemingway’s story which you can read here.