Jagger, This is Rock: Spinster Sister

18-Oct-07


Poison [MP3]
Green Field [MP3]
Jagger, This is Rock: Spinster SisterComplaining about a bad review of a gig, Mick Jagger whined a short while ago that the gig was great and that the review ruins it for the fans. Well, this is not Rock attitude. To be honest, a true rocker would have calmly ignore the reviews or yell at them loud and clear to fuck off. Maybe Rock is something that goes away with the age, although Iggy Pop seems to contradict it.
The Spinster Sister, on the other hand, are young, fresh and make wonderful Rock. It’s not hard and not soft, it’s not polite, but it’s honest. This is how Rock should be (did someone say PJ Harvey or Mötley Crüe?). If the critics don’t like it? Well, fuck ‘em. This, dear Jagger, is what you lost along the way. With an upcoming new album, titled Lucky Drill, there’s something to look forward to.
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Photo taken from the tinyways.photo collective.

Live and Cut: Neko Case - Live @ NPR

23-May-07


Intro + A Widow’s Toast [MP3]
Favorite [MP3]
If You Knew [MP3]
Fox Confessor Brings the Flood [MP3]
Set Out Running [MP3]
Outro With Bees [MP3]
Star Witness [MP3]
Dirty Knife [MP3]
I Wish I Was the Moon [MP3]
The Tigers Have Spoken [MP3]
Maybe Sparrow [MP3]
Margaret Vs. Pauline [MP3]
Buckets of Rain [MP3]
Deep Red Bells [MP3]
Hex [MP3]
That Teenage Feeling [MP3]
Furnace Room Lullaby [MP3]
Hold On, Hold On [MP3]
Wayfaring Stranger [MP3]
Look For Me (I’ll Be Around) [MP3]
John Saw That Number [MP3]
Knock Loud [MP3]
Live and Cut: Neko Case - Live @ NPRThe NPR live concerts series is a wonderful initiative, which through its life managed to host many of the best active musicians, and to do something that not many do: to share the show for free on the Internet. However, the shows are shared as podcasts, meaning as uncut sets. Here we would like to share what’s already been shared, and just cut it for you to have a wonderful record. This is here is the performance the wonderful Neko Case gave on the show.
Packaged download:
Neko Case - Live @ NPR [ZIP]
Links:
The original show page (with the download links)
Neko Case

As Seen on the Radio: A Prairie Home Companion

07-Nov-06


Tishomingo Blues [MP3]
Slow Slow Days of Summer [MP3]
Gold Watch & Chain [MP3]
Bad Jokes [MP3]
Red River Valley [MP3]
Jens Jensen’s Herring [MP3]
Frankie & Johnny [MP3]
Trailer [YouTube]
As Seen on the Radio: A Prairie Home Companion

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

Stage. Lights. Curtain up. We have been fooled, there’s no prairie here, only some worn out musicians. Lies! Deception! Oh, my lord, Christ is pure and we have deceived by the fuckin’ democrats. But wait, what is going on? It’s the prairie all right, it’s the goddamn wilderness, cowboys and lasses, Christians and nothing else, whites and no more. Oh, yea, cowboy, this is the prairie, and these rugged musicians are your guides. It’s all on the radio, no TV can transmit these pictures, for that you need a stretch out that antenna, move it a bit to get it clear, and here the prairie invading your life. Some miracles just keep on running day by day, despite TV, despite Podcasts, despite Soulseek, there were some good things, and for some reason CNN and WB forgot to wipe them out or buy them in.

She shot that bastard in the heart, And ruined his nice suit!

Links:
IMDB entry
Radio show website
Movie official website
Update 21/11/06:
On November 21st Robert Altman, the director of A Prairie Home Companion, died at the age of 81. This makes A Prairie Home Companion his bid of farewell. A grander one he couldn’t ask.

Lola Johnson: What if you die some day?
Garrison Keillor: I will die.
Lola Johnson: Don’t you want people to remember you?
Garrison Keillor: I don’t want them to be told to remember me.