Afternoon Bites: Thurston Moore’s New Band, Pie Chart “2666,” Endless Boogie, and More

  “Endless Boogie gets one over on other longform rock outfits like Wooden Shjips because they don’t make it look easy. Some of these other jammy/think-they’re-rockin’ outfits are content to just ride a groove until they think no one’s listening anymore. Endless Boogie goes a lot deeper.” Doug Mosurock on Endless Boogie’s Long Island. Joyland’s podcast, Truth & Fiction, features Emily Schultz in conversation with Emily St. John Mandel. A while back, we wrote about Survival Knife, featuring a few former […]

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Thurston Moore’s “Benediction” on NPR

Posted by Jason Diamond Two of the three albums in Thurston Moore’s solo canon are masterpieces (I can’t vouch for the 1999 record, Vouch, because I haven’t listened to it, also because it’s such a massive collaborative effort, that I feel weird calling it ‘solo’).  Psychic Hearts and Trees Outside the Academy are records that are nearly as crucial as any of his work in Sonic Youth (please note the stress on the word “nearly”), and are both full of […]

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Thurston Hearts Poetry

Over at Arthur, Thurston Moore and Bryan Coley discuss (among other things) poetry. Whatever generation it is now of the St. Marks Poetry Project New York School is beyond us, we stopped counting as soon as we saw Anselm Berrigan running the joint, remembering him as a kid banging around the folding chairs at the Project really not that long ago. Time flies in real time and in poet time and the last decade of young poets around that scene […]

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Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal #10

Over at Arthur, some news about Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal: “Issue #10 of Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal will be published and presented at White Columns as an expanded event/exhibition. A stapled issue will be created during the show. Pages from each of the ten journals will be exhibited as enlarged wall pieces, including the heretofore unpublished issue #9, [in keeping with the journals every-third-issue a theme issue, i.e., #3 was themed “cunnilingus,” #6 was “punk,”—with #9’s theme “pot”].” […]

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Best Song Right Now: “Feelin’ Fine”, by MV + EE

I used to think that most MV & EE stuff was too hit-or-miss for me to bother picking up, but then 2009 happened to them, and it changed my perception.  Earlier in the year, there was the fantastic Drone Trailer, and now their latest offering on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, Bara Nova, gets pretty close to making me think I’m  listening to Neil Young jam with Royal Trux. MV + EE, “Feelin’ Fine“

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Bites: Winston Churchill’s Valuable Complaints, Searls Edits Walden, Brownstein Questions Thurston Moore, and more

Sometimes halting eloquence doesn’t fare well when you’re trying to make a complaint.  Winston Churchill faced such a problem at this Scottish hotel, where his letter of misgivings is proudly mounted for guests to see.  I’m hoping that, in addition to showcasing Churchill’s disappointments, they not only addressed their bug problem but started serving lunch food as well.  After all, what distinguished person eats pancakes at mid-day?  For crying out loud, Scotland. Lit. & The Internet Bolaño explains life, naturally […]

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