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We thought after 5 years, it was about time to update the look of the blog to something slightly more modern. (Thanks, Ally Jane!) I believe that means that Ed Park’s blog is quite possibly the last blog in the entire world wide web using the “dots” template. Truly the end of an era…We will […]

Back Into the AbyssSlayer revisit their 1990 album on tour by D.X. Ferris On this summer’s American Carnage tour, two of the biggest old-school thrash bands are performing classic albums from 1990. Megadeth are playing the guitar landmark Rust in Peace, and Slayer are tearing through all of Seasons in the Abyss, an album that

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Housing Works Bookstore Café Thursday at 7 p.m., a discussion on the Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, who died in 1997, with Dan Kois, author of “Facing Future,” a book about Mr. Kamakawiwo’ole, and with Nate Chinen, who writes about jazz for The New York Times. The ukulele players Andy Kulana Wang and Jason Poole will

One of my good friends has a nephew who’s interested in music turning 16 in a little bit and she has come up with a brilliant birthday present: she has commissioned an esteemed high court of her friends (including myself) to come up with a mixtape for her nephew composed of songs for someone turning

Egg City Radio has a wonderful 30 minute phone interview with Betty Davis*, archived from an old Sound of Young America radio show. The cognitive dissonance that mounts over the course of the interview–between the soft-spoken, introverted, mom-like spoken voice of Davis today, and the over-the-top fire-spitting soulful funk of Davis’s singing in the musical

And lest we be accused of being NY-centric, here’s short notice of a great looking event happening in Detroit tomorrow evening (Friday 30th). Celebrating three recent books that look at the Detroit scene and including readings, live music, and a photography exhibit, Detroit Punk Fest is curated by Carey Loren and takes place at Book

Well, in Queens, to be precise… Joe Bonomo, author of the 33 1/3 on AC/DC’s Highway to Hell forwarded this on to me. He has an essay in the program, and there will be a reading from Bruce Eaton’s excellent 33 1/3 on Radio City. Plus a preview of the Big Star documentary mentioned a

June 25th saw the launch of Sytze Steenstra’s stellar study of the work of David Byrne – Song and Circumstance. It took place in Amsterdam’s finest music venue, Paradiso – here are a couple of photos of Sytze in action…

We’re very pleased to say that – after quite some waiting – Richard Henderson’s most excellent study of Van Dyke Parks’ remarkable Song Cycle is now on sale throughout North America. To celebrate, Richard has written a short piece exclusively for the blog, about the rare 45 that VDP released in 1970, a little while