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Archives for September 2010
WEAK FILM, TERRIFIC CLOSING CREDITS
The Other Guys, end title sequence by Picture Mill The Other Guys, end title sequence by Picture Mill … [Read more...]
PAVEMENT, FOOTNOTE EDITION (KEITH HARRIS)
Image via WikipediaOne last time: The thing about Pavement isn't that they chose diffidence, or irony, or aloof distance (or whatever other residual Gen-X cliché you're compelled to recycle) as an aesthetic posture. It's that they seemed to find themselves, like lots of us, inherently diffident, and … [Read more...]
JAMES LEVINE CHASES HIS OWN GHOST
Image via WikipediaFrom Daniel Wakin's NYTimes report on James Levine's podium return (September 17): Despite evidence that working too hard in the past has contributed to his health problems, Mr. Levine, 67, is scheduled for a nightmarish week in October. He will lead the Boston orchestra … [Read more...]
DAVID THOMSON ON THE WIZARD OF OZ
Image via WikipediaFrom David Thomson's Have You Seen...? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films:The song [Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which Louis B. Mayer had tried to cut] is in the film. It won the Oscar for Best Song that year. And I think it is the moment … [Read more...]
BEATLES VS. STONES, OLDHAM REFS
Funny, I never would have taken John Schaefer for a Stones perv. But there it is: (Or click here to listen, from podcast riley.) … [Read more...]
BIO
Tim Riley (triley60ATgmail.com) critiques music for NPR's HERE AND NOW out of WBUR Boston, and is Journalist-In-Residence at Emerson College. … [Read more...]
BOOKS
FEVER (Picador, 2005) surveys rock's gender styles through key figures like Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Girl Groups, Smokey Robinson, Pete Townshend, Rosanne Cash, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, and rock couples from Sonny and Cher through Kurt Cobain and Courtney … [Read more...]
SLEEVAGE: MINIMALIST ALBUM COVERS
Related articles by ZemantaMinimalist 1960s redesigns of classic album covers (boingboing.net)New and Notable: Hard Ton (albumartexchange.com)Paint My Album on Flickr (albumartexchange.com)Movie Posters Using Shapes Straight Lines - Minimalistically Geeky (geekpinoy.com)Noel McKay: vintage (vinyl) … [Read more...]