I went into 2013 knowing that a new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album was on the way, and the prospect of Push the Sky Away — featuring Barry Adamson back with the Bad Seeds for the first time since the 80s, but without Mick Harvey — was an intriguing one. Like past Nick Cave-related albums, it’s so hard for me to not be biased since I’m such a huge fan of his work, and the work of the […]
The Paris Review teamed up with 92Y as part of a collaborative interview series between the two venerable institutions. The results are as wonderful as you’d expect, including this 1990 conversation between James Atlas and Iris Murdoch that we really like.
There is more than enough David Lynch worship to go around, but talking about current styles that look like they could be pulled from his television series and movie about the murder of Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks, Washington, and the city’s unusual inhabitants after reading a 1990 issue of Sassy Magazine you had lying around, that’s certainly something a little better. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.
I’m curious to see whether music critics will hail Haim’s Days Are Gone as a triumph when they issue their 2013 best of lists, or if they’ll use their big moment in the winter sun to proudly flip the band a middle finger from behind their computers because they don’t think the trio is deserving of the tag “indie” (and, technically speaking, they aren’t actually indie), and they don’t believe the group is worth the hype. I’d like to hope […]
John Cheever’s first story, thoughts on Mike Tyson’s memoir, an essay by Scott Pinkmountain, juke joint visits, and much more.
Potluck Supper With Meeting to Follow Andy Sturdevant Coffee House Press; 239 p. I have my own set of personal Minnesota stories and memories, and I have put together a history of the Twin Cites based on hearsay and books read. F. Scott Fitzgerald turned his back on the place, not interested in “the lost Swede towns” of his home state, making Saint Paul all the more intriguing in the writer’s stories (both fiction and autobiographical), because what Fitzgerald didn’t […]
I drove back home to New York yesterday, and listened to all four of the Velvet Underground’s proper–I say “proper” because I don’t consider Squeeze, without any of the original members appearing, an actual Velvet Underground product–albums, and then Lou Reed’s Transformer and Coney Island Baby. This in itself isn’t strange, considering I could probably do some sort of calculation and come up with some grand total of hours spent listening to albums by the band and their post-Velvets solo […]
The funny thing about New York is that so many of us dream of getting here, then we do and either end up stuck here, or give up and leave leave. Those that leave either do so because they found something better elsewhere, or they just can’t deal with the high rent, over-priced everything, smelly summers, and shitty neighbors. I should mention that I chose to use the word “stuck” for the rest of us only because no matter how […]