“How the Velvet Underground and Václav Havel built a blueprint for toppling totalitarians and other censors.” – Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie at Reason.com David Remnick put together a Václav Havel reading list. Daniel Pinchbeck, Lenny Kravitz’s daughter, and a Gossip Girl star throw a posh Occupy Wall Street party. The best historical fiction of 2011 from NPR Books. The Chicago Tribune picks its favorite Windy City works from 2011. Captured Tracks has a new Shoegaze Archives series they’re working on. […]
Band Booking: Dustin Wong
Posted by Jason Diamond Dustin Wong is one of the great guitar geniuses of our time, and on his first solo album since the hiatus–or whatever the kids are calling it these days–of his former band, Ponytail, he delivers big time. Infinite Love is an expansive work of heady, spazzy, and textured instrumentals that sounds something like surf rock for the Silver Surfer. A lot of it sounds improvised (and frankly, it probably is), and some of it sounds like […]