From the soundtrack for the film “Montage of Heck,” Kurt Cobain does a solo acoustic performance of The Beatles song. Continue reading
Drop whatever you’re doing, there’s a new PBS Blank on Blank animation, and this time it features an interview with Tom Waits. The interview was conducted by Chris Roberts in 1988, and is appropriately titled “Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing.” The bit about the moles at Stonehenge is pure… Continue reading
Artist Helen Green created a GIF displaying her drawings of 50 years of David Bowie hairstyles. She posted the GIF to her Tumblr – on January 8th, 2015, the musician and icon’s 68th birthday – and it quickly went viral. Bowie is famous for reinvention, both in his musical style… Continue reading
The cute/creepy/annoying (depending your perspective) singing toys Sing-a-ma-jigs were first made YouTube famous by young adult author and video blogger John Green, who made them harmonize in his video “Making Adorable Music.” While that was a fun and somewhat impressive video, YouTuber eknightmusic has taken the Sing-a-ma-jigs choir idea to… Continue reading
Documentary film by Nick Broomfield investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Kurt Cobain, and allegations he was murdered. Continue reading
Roz and the Rice Cakes Perform “Push and Pull” Providence, Rhode Island’s Roz and the Rice Cakes have toured extensively this summer, taking their atmospheric, jazzy indie rock all over the country. While on the road, they stopped into 1809 Studios, in Macedon, New York, to record a live, session version… Continue reading
André Benjamin as Hendrix in All By My Side The first bit of footage of André Benjamin, aka OutKast’s André 3000, portraying Jimi Hendrix for the recently premiered biopic All Is By My Side has finally seen the light of day. From the looks of it, fans should be pretty… Continue reading
John Lurie has one of those careers that makes a quick and easy summation difficult. It’s possible you know him from his work as a film actor, most notably in The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese), Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders), Down By Law and Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch). Or… Continue reading
The Australian psychedelic indie rock band Tame Impala has taken to their Facebook page to ask fans if they should allow their music to be licensed for a commercial. They wrote: “got offered $100,000 for a song to be on a mobile phone ad. What should i do fans????” At… Continue reading
Henry Rollins doesn’t suffer fools well. Actually, he doesn’t suffer them at all. So much so that sometimes he seems to go on the offensive and cross over into dickishness. Yet, even then, you get the sense that he is at least in part right, and is making a broader,… Continue reading
