Brian Eno is 60

Here is an interview with Brian Eno in the Independent (UK).

Crowded House 2008 North American tour coverage

May 15 review of concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco on KTVU. Set list for that show on the Mercury News blog site.


Review in the Chicago Tribune, May 12

Review of Toronto show, Danforth Music Hall, May 7 in Freshdaily and Jam Showbiz and Fazer.

Boston Globe and Boston Herald reviews, May 5

Washington Post review, May 4

The Spaghetti Incident posts the set list from the April 29 show at the Fillmore/Irving Plaza in New York.

Angelina Jolie in teenage sex music video for an Italian cover of “Don’t Dream It’s Over” story in London Metro.

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Vinyl Fanboy

Tomorrow is Record Store Day. Here is a story in the New York Times and here is a map of some of the stores that are still here and some that have gone away during the last 5 years.  Any fule kno that the picture is of the Hollywood Amoeba Records.

Roxy Music moment

Here's a couple of fun things from the best Roxy Music website, These Vintage Years.

A long interview with Bryan Ferry in the Sunday Telegraph magazine, Seven.

The coming attraction for the movie "Flashbacks of a Fool" which features the song "If There Is Something." "Virginia Plain" is also on the movie soundtrack along with a couple of David Bowie tracks.

Roxy Music, Hammersmith Odeon late 1970s

photo: Adrian Bryan-Brown

Vinyl Fanboy

Here are two neat links. One, courtesy of the New York Times, to a story about one of the finest record stores in the United States.

Our Towns
In Princeton, an Offline Haven for Music Shoppers Thrives
By PETER APPLEBOME
Published: April 10, 2008
A holdout record store is still selling vinyl, offering the visceral experience of poring through album bins in person.

and the other, kindly exposed at Hidden Track:

Hard Rock Park, located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Very silly.

Cars of the Stars

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Split Enz interview

Split Enz have reformed to play some dates in New Zealand. Here is a long interview with Tim Finn and Noel Crombie about the band in the NZ Press.

Easter Special

3 pop culture phenoms to think about today

A CELEBRATION OF PEEPS

CBS Sunday Morning ran a piece on Peeps this morning.  Here is a transcript.

ELVIS COSTELLO, FAMILY MAN

An interview with Elvis Costello about fatherhood, not releasing CDs, etc. which appeared in shorter form in the April issue of The Word Magazine.

CARRY ON, 50 YEARS ON

Carry On films celebrate a 50th Anniversary this year.  Here is an article in The Times and commentary in the Daily Telegraph by Jim White.  I never knew until now that there was talk of "Carry on Doctor Who" in the early 1990s, which would have no doubt really put the last nail in the coffin of the long-running sci-fi franchise.

Cars of the Stars

And here is a link to video of the sighting.

Where Do the Children Play? Coney Island

Here is a link to a compilation of blogs and photos about Coney Island, and here is a recent photo-essay by Robert Polidori from the New Yorker website about Astroland off-season.  Here is a Jake Mooney Dispatches column from The New York Times about The Parachute Jump.

The Greatest Record Collection in the World

Valued at $50 million the collection just sold on eBay for a little over $3 million. Roughly 3 million 78s, LPS, CDs and Singles. Thank you for the Hidden Track blog for posting the story. Here is a actual eBay sale and a Pittsburgh newspaper report on the collection.

French Bulldog Shameless Exploitation

Picabia's Femme au Bulldog from an exhibit currently in London at the Tate Modern reviewed in the London Evening Standard here.

Roxy Music moment

This is the cover of a promo Roxy Music record with remixes of Editions of You (Phones Mix) and Virginia Plain (Headman Re-mix). The New Yorker comments on the new Roxy Music compilation DVD here.

From the arts pages, a cool advertisement

All Gone

Vinyl Mania. A fixture in various locations on Carmine Street for the past 20 years. Promo albums $2.99 and the first place I ever got CD singles -- like the singles off U2's The Joshua Tree.

Landmarks of Columbia County, NY

The Ancram waterfall

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Bubbles takes a bath

from the summer of 2006

Doctor Who moment

Tom Baker sighted on London's South Bank filming Doctor Who sometime between 1974 and 1981. Probably taken with a Kodak Instamatic camera.

It Is Balloon

Broadway rats

They're Just Like Us

New York Times reporter Susan Dominus on people who live off selling used books to the Strand bookstore. Link here.

Another New York Times piece. A Jake Mooney Dispatches column about selling off record collections! Link here.

Crowded House update

Crowded House has an Austin City Limits concert airing on PBS this week. Here is a link to a performance of "Don't Dream It's Over" and an interview with all five band members, if you can't watch the tv broadcast.

liveDaily has details of the upcoming Tim Finn US tour.

The Voice of Hudson

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Really Bad Ideas in Food

Dry, powdery, too strong, and not crunchy enough. A massive disappointment.

Crowded House Back in the UK

CROWDED HOUSE, NOTTINGHAM ARENA This is Nottingham, UK - If you've ever been irritated by someone with a mobile phone at a gig, there is a solution: turn out the lights and watch thousands of tiny white screens ...

Crowded House Times Online, UK - It was a problem that Crowded House circumvented a long time ago – well before the extended hiatus that ended with the release of this year’s Time on Earth. ...

CROWDED HOUSE Scotsman, United Kingdom - IT SEEMS that nobody can resist the lure of reformation. Eleven years after Crowded House called it a day, they're back with a new album and tour. ...

A tingly fusion of crowd and Crowded House Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - It was death that brought Crowded House back to life: the suicide in 2005 of the group's drummer and prankster-in-chief Paul Hester was a catalyst behind ...

French Bulldogs in the Press

Lauren Taschen with her dog Sans Souci from the New York Times Holiday 2007 Style Magazine. Photograph by Maciek Kobielski.