Nov
11th
Fri
11th
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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Jay Z, Jack White and Beyoncé
Oct
21st
Fri
21st
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy on Fox News
I love interviews of great artists on terrible news shows. They are always just so surreal and hillarious. These are a couple of my favorites.
Bill Callahan on WGN News
Oct
7th
Fri
7th
Off the Shelf by Patti Smith
Oh God, this was heartbreaking. I really relate to this since I always coveted encyclopedias when I was growing up in the pre-internet 80s. I imagine that for a lot of us, encyclopedias were tickets to the outside world. My parents seemed to only own religious books, so I was always insanely jealous of friends who had sets of encylopedias in their houses. I couldn’t imagine having that much information in my home where I could learn without being forced to like I was in school. It seems funny thinking about it now since the internet has made sets of encyclopedias obsolete. But reading this great story by Patti Smith totally brings me back to that time when I desperately craved information and had a really difficult time finding it.
Sep
26th
Mon
26th
Video: Radiohead on SNL, 2011 / 2000
Radiohead returned to Saturday Night Live moments ago for the first time since their 2000 tour de force performance of Kid A’s “Idiotheque” and “The National Anthem.” While Thom Yorke broke out plenty of dance moves for their set over a decade ago, tonight he graced the 30 Rock stage with maracas and a few of those fresh steps we saw in the “Lotus Flower” video back in February. Guest drummer Clive Deamer rejoined the band for the second segment: a take on post-The King of Limbs tune “Staircase.”
Below, you can revisit Radiohead’s 11-year transition with videos from both tonight’s Alec Baldwin-hosted SNL premiere and their first appearance:
I was pretty blown away seeing Radiohead on SNL for the first time in over ten years. Even though SNL isn’t the greatest stage for a performance, there’s something about seeing a great band in a conventional space just to see what they do with it. Watching this last night, I had my breath taken away several times. The same thing happened when I watched them on SNL in 2000 playing a couple songs off the just-released Kid A. I just rewatched those performances, thanks to 24Bit, and was still just as blown away. They play like a band possessed and it’s quite something to see. I’ve seen them live in person twice, but both times were pretty huge disasters, not because of the band, but because of the terrible venues they got stuck playing. So until I can see them in an ideal space, I’ll have to settle for their live TV performances. Speaking of, they’re on the Colbert Report tonight, which I assume will be amazing.
Sep
22nd
Thu
22nd
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion video
R.E.M. - What’s The Frequency, Kenneth? video
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts video
