Plus Beyonce’s mom Tina gets re-married! Also see which artists will be performing on television today. More »
The Roots, Yoko Ono, Yo La Tengo, Patti Smith, Charlie Haden (with Robert Wyatt), and Moby are among the initial artists announced for Ornette Coleman’s Meltdown Festival, which takes place in London from June 13-21. Coleman is also set to perform at least twice during the fest, which has been curated in the past by the likes of Massive Attack, Scott Walker, and Jarvis Cocker. [Meltdown; HT The Daily Swarm] More »
During last week’s discussion of Marmite artists–those artists that are so divisive, they force people to take sides, with no one left in the middle–Idolator commenter moomintroll wondered if we shouldn’t try and find more ways to classify popular bands through their analogues to various condiments. Since we figured the safe space in the fridge inhabited by your ketchups, your mustards, and your molding bottles of Hidden Valley Ranch was as good a way to make sense of the current musical landscape as any, we invited her to flesh out her theory for us. It’s after the jump!
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by a writer who’s contributed to many of those magazines, as well as a few others! In this installment, he looks at the new issue of Spin:
Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields will release a double-CD recording of The Coral Sea. More »
Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields will release a double-CD recording of The Coral Sea. More »
Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields will release a double-CD recording of The Coral Sea. More »
We don’t know the exact year that this clip first aired, and frankly, we’re not even sure we want to know, as the sight of Patti Smith singing “You Light Up My Life” to an audience of overjoyed kids is so wondrous and strange, we’d like to think it took place within some yet-to-be-realized… More »