Is Grimes Too Punk to be a Pop Star? She started as an experimental electronic musician and drew a devoted online following. Now she wants to infiltrate the mainstream. BY KELEFA SANNEH – NewYorker.com I’ve been writing a lot of music lately, so the New Yorkers have fallen by the wayside. But I did manage …
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Written by Serge Gainsbourg, sung by France Gall who (according to the internet) was 17 at the time. This was a bit before her voice became a device that caused widespread madness. Like many female French pop stars during the sixties, she recorded and performed like a crazy woman. As in the US, they thought …
One of the best French pop songs of the sixties. OK, Sylvie has crazy teeth and this video is all cheesy sci-fi robo-bondage, but the tune endures. If I ever go on tour beyond Spokane or Walla Walla, I’m gonna figure a way to include this in the set. And yeah, I’ll sing in French. …
[Update 4/19/2012 – On his website, the family of Levon Helm has announced, “Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.” The material below was posted earlier in the week, prior to …
Longboat’s Igor Keller doesn’t like it when I use a certain G-word to describe him. The word is not “gangsta.” Igor’s fine with that. He’d love it if we all called him our original gangsta. The G-word Igor doesn’t like is “genius,” which is a word I keep coming back to whenever I hear tunes …
http://youtu.be/qAkubiZhly4 “To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest …
Longboat’s Igor Keller is, of course, a genius. This became clear last May when I beheld Beyond the Moon, a nifty song, video and nostalgia trinket of the 1960s space race. Keller’s talents also shine through his blog, Hideous Belltown, a first person blog of cosmpolitan stories and button-cute squirrel photos wherein he invites readers …
Here is a new music video from the band Longboat (Igor Keller) of their song “Beyond the Moon.” It embodies all the hopes and dreams of the post-war era. – Jim Demetre