Songwriting and Production
Source: Yes, Iggy Pop is 70. And yes, he obliterated his set at FYF Fest – LA Times In skintight pants that could have been painted on, Iggy Pop planted his feet on the lip of the stage Sunday afternoon, lunging forward as if he were about to surf over the sea of fist-pumping hands….
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NICK Lowe once penned a song called When I Write The Book. Thirty-odd years later, we’re still waiting. Elvis Costello may have recently… Source: Nick Lowe: An elegant elder statesman of rock (From HeraldScotland) His energies are required elsewhere. Fatherhood, rather late in the day, and a settled second marriage have played havoc with his…
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“this is spooky, wonderful, amazing, > empowering! so many of us are asleep, all it takes to WAKE UP is to remember the truth of who we are. Energetic pieces of the same mysterious infinite ocean of love. Reminding others who we are, helps us remind ourselves! Thank you for such a powerful reminder.”
Source: ‘I joined a cult for 4 years and lost $1m. But maybe, in the end, I won.’ – Music Business Worldwide ‘I joined a cult for 4 years and lost $1m. But maybe, in the end, I won.’ –Desmond Child WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST BREAK AS A SONGWRITER OR PERFORMER? When I was at…
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I had a friend who met Iggy once and the description sounds very similar to Rollins description off the video. Iggy sounds like a man-cactus: all thorny outside with a squishy centre. I’m not sure if anyone really wants to meet Iggy; they just have this idea that if they could meet him some of…
When you consider that critics have been writing about him for over 60 years, it can seem as if there’s nothing left to say about Sonny Rollins. But there is – because over the decades, the “Saxophone Colossus” has never stopped growing or adding to his sound. More than once, Rollins has stepped away from…
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Source: William Gibson & The Summer of Love Next to Burroughs, Miller, Kerouac and others, Gibson is my personal favourite author.
In American Sign Language, it means “I love you.” It is also very similar to the motion Spider-man is known to make in movies and his comics to activate his powers, and is featured on the album cover for THE BEATLES‘ 1966 single, “Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby”, which showed John Lennon making the gesture nearly a…
Iggy and the Stooges made money mostly from tours and gigs. Iggy Pop says: “We make an album, everybody complains for the first five years. And after about 10 years, people say, hey, you know, that’s pretty good. The money kicks in about 20 years later.” Source: Why Iggy Pop declined joining the Doors as…
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Former Stooges singer recalls wild tales ahead of new oral history book ‘Total Chaos’ Iggy Pop discusses touring, music and history of Stooges in forthcoming book ‘Total Chaos’ out November 15th via Third Man Books.Patrick Pantano
Six months after Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature at a ceremony he did not attend, the songwriter has fulfilled the award’s criteria by delivering a lecture on the topic to the Swedish Academy. Ahead of Nobel Prize ceremony, we explore how Dylan wrote not just songs or poetry, but history Recorded June 4th in…
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On “Wall of Glass,” which pairs a vintage Oasis attack with modern production sheen, Gallagher criticizes hypocrisy and mob mentality. “You believe in fascinations/ And designer vaccinations, love,” he belts. “You get along/ You were sold a one direction/ I believe the resurrection’s on, and you were wrong.”
http://www.cbc.ca/…/lou-reed-wild-side-university-guelph-st… — “There were also plenty of rumoured relationships with men, leading some fans to name Reed as the first “out” rock star. But why bother remembering any of this when you can invent some outrage, in return for a little validation that your opinions are worth something? That’s what students at the University of…
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Source: Inside Real World Studios, Peter Gabriels recording sanctuary Incredible slide show. Literally more equipment than God.
When asked why knowing every Beatles’ kit, drum piece, and hardware matters, Astridge answers plainly, “I feel The Beatles’ legacy will go on for centuries. My whole take on this and the reason why I collected drums and gear specific for his my whole life was to help bring Ringo’s kits back to life.” Source:…
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