Nathan Larson is getting set to release the second book in his Dewey Decimal series, and has released a trailer to let people know about it — as people do when putting out a book.
The Sarah Records Story
Clare Wadd and Matt Haynes started Sarah Records around the time that The Smiths called it quits in 1987. A year later Moz gave us Viva Hate and Marr found his way back to music with Electronic, but the death of the most important English band of their generation, along with the release of the famous c86 album, helped nurture the seeds of the new generation of indie pop. With releases by bands like Another Sunny Day, The Field Mice, and Heavenly, Sarah Records […]
“I see a Darkness” Gets a Little Sunnier
The first time we heard Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s title track to his 1999 masterpiece, I See a Darkness, nobody would have thought the song would have ended up getting the cover treatment by Johnny Cash a year later on American III: Solitary Man.
Melody’s Echo Chamber Recorded in a French Beach House
Everything about the Melody’s Echo Chamber bio is good: A beach house in France, comparisons to Robert Wyatt and Spiritualized, and kaleidoscopic fusions are almost always great things.
Rosecrans Baldwin’s French Experiments
Rosecrans Baldwin moved to Paris and wrote a book about it. With Sarkozy ousted, Baldwin’s memoir Paris I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down, serves as a perfectly timed ode to the France he knew. It’s also a heartfelt and enjoyable account of an American artist living abroad in the 21st century that never feels like a tourist guide to a city that has been written about over and over a thousand times.
Books About Cricket
Here are two quotes that sum up my relationship with the game of cricket.
“The Year of the Gadlfy” Book Trailer Gets Just About Everybody Involved
Jennifer Miller’s book trailer for The Year of the Gadfly has everything: Brian Williams, Andrea Mitchell, Dan Rather, Walter Isaacson, a Pulitzer Prize winner, midgets wrestling in a kiddie pool filled with red jello, tweakers dressed up like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, and Gary Shteyngart.