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The Decemberists
September 19, 2009
Terminal 5, New York, NY
By Amanda Hatfield "The Decemberists played a special one night 'lottery show,' where the songs played were picked at random by a master of ceremonies, played by John Wesley Harding..."
Ra Ra Riot
April 4, 2009
Webster Hall, New York City, NY
By Amanda Hatfield "This show was, at the time, the biggest one Ra Ra Riot had sold out as headliners, and it was clear to me after watching it that the band is destined for even bigger and better things..."
Florence and the Machine
October 28, 2009
Bowery Ballroom, New York City, NY
By Amanda Hatfield "Florence Welsh and her backing band delighted and mesmerized a sold-out crowd at Bowery in her first official NY headlining show..."
Dirty Projectors
July 19, 2009
Williamsburg Waterfront (Brooklyn, NY)
By Amanda Hatfield "I was skeptical about how well Dirty Projectors' gorgeous, complex vocal harmonies would carry over outdoors, standing under hot sunshine..."
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OK Computer In the Future
Many books come out each year deconstructing rock music: The musicians, their albums, their songs, their showering habits, and their other habits. It’s here where we’ll take an excerpt of a book for you to check out before you make the purchase. As of now these will exclusively feature the venerable 33 1/3 series, which picks apart an album by a band or musician. In the future, we hope to include more rock books of all varieties.
Dai Griffiths is Head of the Department of Music at Oxford Brookes University.
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Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music
Just one more month, people… then everything will be back to normal. There will be more record releases than you can possibly keep track of, there will be big tours, and we can only imagine there will be all sorts of pissy music blogger wars to help us waste away our long, long days at work. For now, though, it’s still the middle of the summer, and everyone’s too busy watching Project Runway to care too much about anything else. In the meantime, I recommend making a list of your Top 10 records of the first half of the year, or maybe reading a book (I just finished Personal Days by Ed Park, and I recommend it), or, of course reading this here column, in which you’ll find news about has-been rock bands, soon-to-be-demolished baseball stadiums, racists, and fast food. Enjoy!
This Month’s Most Notable News Stories
Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Party (And the Singles Club Comes Back)
It’s a tough time for record labels, now that no one even knows if they definitely need to exist, and for the most part, I don’t really care all that much. But I’ve got a soft spot for Sub Pop. Having been born in 1978 and having been 13 years old when Nevermind was released, I was at the perfect age to delve into their back catalog. What did I find? Bleach, obviously, which was released by Sub Pop, as were about a gazillion other awesome records every year since 1988. Earlier this month in Seattle, they hosted a celebration of their 20th anniversary. The show featured performances by the label’s current roster (Fleet Foxes, CSS, Oxford Collapse) as well as their more, eh, mature acts (the Vaselines, Mudhoney).
Every Pebble On the Road, It’s By Chance We Met
A few weeks ago, I awoke to a sunny Friday morning in San Francisco. I dropped $2 on a Colombia brewed coffee, loaded into my dusty and dented purple Ford Escort, and headed out of the city for an hour drive to Sonoma to meet Paul Williams, the godfather of rock journalism.
The night before, a calm washed over me. Considering I was preparing to meet a guy who is widely considered the founder of rock ‘n’ roll criticism, underscored by the fact that I’m the new editor of the namesake he created, things felt okay. Really, they shouldn’t have.
When Bad Things Happen to Great Writers
by: Bob Hill
Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, May 1967
We’re all plagiarists these days—thieves in the night, stealing what we can off the fat of the land, then reducing it to a bite or a blurb or a blog post at best. The Twitterers, they tweet. And the Tumblrs, they text. And the world, it keeps spinning round at 160 characters per minute.
The days of free-form journalism are dead as the dog dirt, my friend. All the hip kids have packed up, moved on… sold their soul to tabloid journalism two graphs at a time.
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by: Bob Hill
published: April 24, 2009 in column: Feature Story
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