October 12, 2004
We're Coming Back
Posted by nerdling | October 12, 2004 12:03 PM
It's a British Re-invasion: Brett and Bernard have patched things up and Suede is getting back together! (As is the ska powerhouse known as Madness.) {Via largehearted boy}
Much like the Merge comp earlier this year, Matador has turned fifteen and is celebrating with a 3-disc comp which includes music from Interpol, AC Newman, The New Pornographers, Mission of Burma, Yo La Tengo and Guided By Voices.
Though the first disc of the set is touted as the "greatest hits" portion of the collection, one has to wonder that the songs included on the comp only span the past five years—not the fifteen year tenure that Matador is celebrating. Where are Pavement, Pizzicato Five, Silkworm, Chavez, Liz Phair, Teenage Fanclub, The Frogs or Superchunk? Where are the bands and songs that made Matador over the past fifteen years?
I have news for you Matador: I didn't buy that Pretty Girls Make Graves album the first time you released it. I'm sure as hell not going to pay for it in the guise of this purported "best of" compilation.
Legendary tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler is being recogized posthumously with a 9-disc box set of recordings from 1962–70, titled Holy Ghost. Ayler was a contemporary of such jazz greats as Ornette Coleman, Peter Brotzmann and Cecil Taylor, and the box set includes an essay on Ayler by Amiri Baraka.
Woohoo! Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl has been released for your viewing (and listening) pleasure.
Solarized, the new album from Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown, will be released stateside this February, complete with his collaboration with *sigh* Noel Gallagher.
Pursuant to an agreement signed in 1966, Loretta Lynn has filed a lawsuit to be freed from her original contract with Sure-Fire Music, thus allowing her to regain control of her most famous hits.
If you've always wanted to own a limited edition pictoral history of The Flaming Lips, you are in luck.
Surprise, surprise: yet another interview with Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers. (T-minus one week until they play LA.) {Via largehearted boy}
Living Color and Public Enemy are going on tour together this fall.
It sounds like Universal is setting up to take over Roc-A-Fella Records. This isn't really that exciting within the world of mainstream hip hop, as there really isn't much that could be done to make rap any worse. Long live Def Jux!
