The Stone Roses
I Wanna Be AdoredThe Stone Roses- 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition 1989 via Silvertone
First Hat Trick Show of 2010!
Beck is all over the new Charlotte Gainsbourg album, titled IRM (French for MRI) and out in January via Because/Elektra. Mr. Hansen wrote the album's music, co-wrote the lyrics, produced, and even mixed the whole thing. But it's still a Charlotte Gainsbourg LP-- a fact that becomes clear after listening to the title track, now available as a free download on her website. "IRM" is a shambolic psych-out based on Gainsbourg's frequent MRI trips after she suffered a brain hemorrhage following a 2007 water-skiing accident.
3/12/10 opening for Joanna Newson at Ladies Literary Club
The Magnetic Fields’ main man Stephin Merritt claims that Realism is the clear-headed answer to the purposefully excessive fuzz of 2008’s Distortion. Sonically, that’s true. But thematically, Realism’s Big Idea involves expressing adult concerns over music fit for children, then reveling in the disconnect.
The duo wrote and recorded Molina and Johnson during a 10-day respite in Johnson's home base of Denton, Texas, where they drank, smoked, and reportedly shot BB guns.
The brainchild of session musician Martin Dumas Jr., Rasputin's Stash was a '70s soul/funk ensemble from the Windy City of Chicago, IL.