Ten years after they went public with their romance, brother and sister (through adoption) Richie and Margot Tenenbaum had a child that they named Prada. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Neighbors With Eudora Welty and Signed Tennis Shirts: Band Booking With Dent May
Dent May put out one of the few truly great ukulele-driven records with 2009’s The Good Feeling Music Of Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele, and then he packed the instrument away forever. His latest album, Do Things, is an exercise in the art of soulful pop music (think Philly soul and Orange Juice), and is maybe the only true party album to come out this year. I talked to Dent about the recording process, moving back to Mississippi from New York, […]
Daily Quotable: On Questionable Solo Album Cover Art
“This cover tells you everything you need to know about the ’70s ideal of languid self-indulgence: It gloriously conjures up cocaine spoons and key parties, empty promises made in hot tubs, interchangeable and indifferent bodies letting it all hang out in discos, sex in sports cars and hotel rooms while the 8-track of something like this album repeats and repeats.” – Rob Horning’s “We Were Promised Hot Tubs” at The New Inquiry discusses the cover of Bob Welch’s (who passed away last week) […]
Long Before the new MacBook Pro…
As I type this on my (now out of date) MacBook Pro, I look to my left and see an iPhone. My wife is sitting a few feet away with a very similar setup. I think this makes us “Apple People.”
Looking for Larkin on Jazz Leads Back to Larkin’s Poetry
As noted in this past weekend’s Indexing, I read through Philip Larkin’s collected jazz reviews, All What Jazz, and liked it quite a bit. After finishing up I immediately started searching out a few of the songs he talked of throughout the book, then realized there had to be some sort of one-stop playlist or boxset I could just check out if I wanted to hear the music Larkin had written about. After all, there are plenty of those sorts of CDs […]