I’m a travellin’ man
Movin’ through places, space and time
Gotta lotta things i got to do
But God willin’ I’m comin’ back to you
Mos Def probably didn’t have Henry Rollins in mind when he wrote the lyrics to his ‘Travellin’ Man,’ but they still fit the writer/rocker/DJ/activist like a glove. Rollins really is the constant traveler, driven [...]
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Brooklyn-based rock outfit Yeasayer, whose second album Odd Blood officially drops next Tuesday the 9th (it leaked in early December), will be in town to perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg the same night. After 2007’s All Hour Cymbals almost any follow up album would be a let down, but the band’s steep [...]
A storm has seized the streets of Brooklyn. Vanderbilt Avenue through Prospect Heights is a ghost town—windows shutter and awnings snap in the epic gusts. But Walter Martin, bassist and organist of the band The Walkmen, lights into a quiet coffee shop the very picture of serenity. His waxed-cotton biker jacket shows hardly a drop of [...]
The most striking element of White Hinterland’s latest album, Kairos (Dead Oceans), is its focus on the human voice, the strongest and most unique instrument that any on person can utilize. White Hinterland’s (Casey Dienel and Shawn Creeden) instrumentation is light and carefully inserted into each song, and not utilized as a means of overcompensateing for a [...]
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If Dan Boeckner and Alexi Perry have any shame about indulging in just about every cliché from the rock and roll handbook, they sure do a nice job of hiding it. As Handsome Furs, the married duo essentially lives out every angst-ridden teenagers’ dream. That is, to start a band, run away from home with [...]
Our friend Jill’s band, Open Ocean, was featured Monday on Urban Outfitters’ Music Monday blog. They will be playing Monkeytown tonight, and we were going to tell you to go, but word on the street is that it’s sold out. They’re playing alongside Bull Thieves song for song and Shadrach Lindo is providing the visuals. Seeing [...]
Patti Smith seems to be everywhere these days. She’s got a new book Just Kids, an upcoming tour, and just opened an exhibition of drawings, photographs and personal things: Patti Smith and Steven Sebring: Objects of Life.
There were some great faces in Chelsea’s Robert Smith Gallery during the opening night: Michael Stipe turned up to [...]
Some background info from Savonarola: This is Adriano Celentano. He defined this 1972 track as “the seed of Italian rap”. He used to host a hyper-popular Lottery-related show in the 1980s in which he famously got most of the country to switch off their TV sets, would pause inexplicably, and go on rants about animal [...]
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