Stefano Giovannini An album that begins with the lyric and Blade Runner reference I want more life, fucker and ends with The world vanished in a gentle breeze just might describe some pretty high-stakes scenarios. And boy does…
Released late last November, the Joni Mitchell box set Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to be Danced (Rhino) is an achronological, eccentric offering. Compiled by Mitchell herself, the box eschews many (but not all) of her…
A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man By Holly George-Warren (Viking Books) As cult rock icons go, few were more inscrutable than Alex Chilton. He was a…
Nowadays, the likes of Dan Zanes, the Wiggles and certain They Might Be Giants albums provide music for kids that wont necessarily drive Mom and Dad bonkers. Wonderkid, the fourth novel from local writer/musician Wesley Stace, conjures an alternate reality…
On Thanksgiving Day 1976, The Band put on The Last Waltz concert, with guests like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and many others. Martin Scorsese made a movie out of it. The show was a self-stylized farewell concert masterminded…
Neal Santos Neal Santos Neal Santos On any given day, Wesley Stace might be biking along Kelly Drive. Or he might be taking his family to the Franklin Institute. Or he might be inaugurating the reopening of the Boot and…
Emily Shur When she released her first masterpiece, Furnace Room Lullaby, in 2000, a few things stood out about Neko Case. There was that voice, for one. And there was a fidelity to her style of country, a kind of…
Atta boy, Mike Its fair to wonder what a solo show from Michael Nesmith the most enigmatic of former Monkees would be like. Is there loping country-rock? Is there conceptualizing befitting the music video and cult film (he…
Thirteen years after Paul Thomas Andersons Magnolia, Aimee Mann has found another simpatico filmmaker: Tom Scharpling, host of The Best Show on WFMU. Scharplings videos for songs from Manns latest album, Charmer (SuperEgo), delight in testing the resolve of her…
ARTS . Art O Brother, Where Art Thou? Joe Pernice switches gears from songwriting to novel-writing and back again. by Michael Pelusi print email reply rss feed Published: Aug 5, 2009 [ reading/signing/soundtrack ] Yami Ellis-Yasko OFF THE RECORD:…
