Songwriting and Music Production
Thurston and I didn’t look at each other once, and when the song was done, I turned my shoulders to the audience so no one in the audience or the band could see my face, though it had little effect. Everything I did and said was broadcast from one of the two 40ft-high on-stage video…
“The whole thing was a dream” I bet.
https://youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8 In the song, Kirsty MacColl sings the lines, “You scumbag, you maggot/ You cheap lousy faggot/ Happy Christmas, your arse/ I pray God it’s our last,” “The word was used by the character because it fitted with the way she would speak and with her character. She is not supposed to be a nice…
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Dusting ‘Em Off is a rotating, free-form feature that revisits a classic album, film, or moment in pop-culture history. This week, Editorial Director Matt Melis disobediently revisits D.A. Pennebaker’s documentary Dont Look Back 50 years later. “You seem to be relating to a handful of cronies behind the scenes now – rather than the rest of us…
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Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards tells us about the group’s upcoming U.S. stadium tour and plans for their first album since 2005. Danny Payne/Shutterstock Keith Richards seems genuinely moved that, after 57 years as a band, the Rolling Stones will be playing to stadium crowds this spring in the U.S. – the country he calls…
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What strikes you when you watch True Stories now? [Laughs]. I can’t look at it with an objective eye. I see the mistakes, where I feel like, “Oh, that’s a little forced,” or, “That lyric could have been better.” I’m looking at it with a critical eye. At the same time, I feel like it…
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And because I didn’t know it was there, here is a link to my Art Tracks in the form of a YouTube page called a Topic page. I am a Topic now. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwL8zxgkuNCum2S3GI4toNw By Nicholas Salomone February 27, 2018 What is an Art Track on YouTube? One of the most common areas of confusion…
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Great series of interviews. Lots of Thurston Moore playing / noise making on guitar and Iggy improving on his living room floor. What could be better?
“We had a little rager with Wolfmother last night,” says Dandy Warhols bandleader Courtney Taylor-Taylor, as he clears empty wine glasses from the large dining table. His bandmate Zia McCabe suns on the sidewalk, smoking a cigarette in the unseasonably hot March sun as a symphony of construction fills the air. The Odditorium, the band’s longtime…
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