April 2011
4 posts
Watt's World
A few weeks ago, while suffering an acute case of freelancer’s vapours (it happens!), I received a phone call from Mike Watt. We talked about his new album, Hieronymous Bosch, and The Wizard of Oz. Then everything was okay.
Here’s what happened:
When Mike Watt speaks, he screws his face upward, darts his eyes away, and raises his forearm to his brow, as if he’s about to close...
Sharon Van Etten Recommends the Red
For Interview, I spoke with Sharon Van Etten, who by absolutely no coincidence whatsoever is back home in Brooklyn tomorrow night to play The Music Hall of Williamsburg:
“If you want something a little funky, then try a Provence wine,” Sharon says, somewhere en route to Toronto. “Its flavor is very barnyard. But I don’t know — sometimes I just like a weird wine.”...
The Medium is the Medium
Today, the Library of Congress announced the addition of 3 Feet High and Rising, De La Soul’s debut, to the National Recording Registery. The 1989 album will share shelf space with Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man”, Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, Henri Mancini’s theme to Peter Gunn, and the Edison Orchestra’s 1908 recording of “Take Me...
Laura Tharp Writes About Stacey Levine's New Book
The book arrived on my doorstep amidst a particularly bleak spell of rain and cold and wind, just as winter seemed to be giving way to spring. The cherry blossoms, just arrived, shrugged beneath the weight of the rain and shook with the wind, resigning their newly opened buds prematurely. The sidewalks were filled with them, little pink clouds dancing in turbulent pools. I spent two days in my...