The micro blog
I am a little bit upset. Yesterday, the day before I was to finally see my beloved Devendra Banhart (and touring band The Grogs) play live in Denver, I get an email from Ticketmaster reading,
Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert for your upcoming event: Devendra Banhart and the...
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A while back, Thor brought some attention to Beck’s Record Club, where he and various musicians meet up and reinterpret a classic album, recording the entire record in a day. Contributors have thus far included the likes of Devendra Banhart, MGMT, Wilco, Feist, and more. The first record done was The Velvet Underground’s Velvet...
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In “The Day of the Locust”, Nathanael West wrote that Los Angeles is where people come to die. Well, over three-quarters of a century later things have changed, kind of. No one should contest that LA remains one of the most unique, though strange, cities there is. It is the end of the world,...
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The anticipation of Devendra Banhart’s new record has been almost too much to bear for us long-haired children of the States. While the man with the beard hasn’t received a lot of love from the critics lately, with 2007’s Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon and his playful collaboration Megapuss both receiving unjustly poor marks, there exists...
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Record Club: Songs Of Leonard Cohen “Suzanne” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
With Record Club Beck gathers his musical pals to cover a classic album in one day, then offers tracks for download. The way I imagine it is like a typical 80’s soap opera where random musicians drop by Beck’s house, and they just...
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