THURSDAY SHORTS- As much as I admired
Hunter S. Thompson, I really wish I was familiar with more of his writing. Perhaps his death will be the unfortunate push I needed to read more of his work. I have to agree with
M.Matos - lots has been written about HST this week, and Tom Wolfe's
Wall Street Journal piece (via
Geeta) and
Yancey's piece are amongst the best I've seen.
-
Joanna Newsom is going to be on the
Jimmy Kimmel show tonight at midnight on ABC.
-
Gang of Four will be at Irving Plaza on May 17 and 18. Very cool! No details on tickets yet. [via
Brooklyn Vegan]
- Two listens in, I'm really digging the new self-titled album from
Jesu. It's way heavy and very thick, but slow and epic with great melodies - imagine a shoegazey cross between
Helmet and
GY!BE. The guitars are killer on headphones so I imagine they'd knock me over live. Alas, no word on a US tour yet - just these
UK dates with
Isis - but
20 Jazz Funk Greats has album opener "Your Path To Divinity" available for download. Check it out.
- Billboard
talks to Ira Kaplan of
Yo La Tengo about
Prisoners of Love, their best-of 2CD set due out on March 22 on Matador [via
Coolfer]. I already have my advance order in with Matador for the deluxe version, which will have an extra disc with 16 outtakes and rarities (tracklist
here). Ira mentions that YLT wrote soundtracks to two films that just played at Sundance -
Game 6 and
Junebug. Hopefully we'll get to hear both in time. In the meantime, tickets are
available now for YLT's woefully underpublicized performance of
The Sounds of the Sounds of Science - their excellent instrumental score to Jean Painleve's underwater documentaries - on May 18 at the Rose Theater.
- This has nothing to do with music but is too great to not pass on -
an archive of every Calvin and Hobbes strip. [via
PSNYC]
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