Sorry for the bleak title, but today's theme is about death.
SONIC DEATH:
Thanks to Cristina who passed this along, but the big shocker comes from Huff Po reporting that Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have separated after being married for twenty-seven years.
The news is a bit of a shock to me, I first came to Sonic Youth with Goo and Dirty and continued to follow the band (even though they were a wee bit too experimental and weird sometime for my music taste).
Just out of pure speculation, I am assuming this also spells the death of Sonic Youth, because, at least to me, Sonic Youth would not be the same without both Gordon and Moore.
NEEDLE OF DEATH:
Speaking of death, influential folk music, Bert Jansch, passed away earlier this week (October 5th). He was 67. It is not made clear what he had died of, but since he had both heart and lung surgeries (2005 and 2009 respectively), I would hazard a guess that he was in poor health.
Johnny Marr, of the legendary The Smiths, is quoted as saying how Jansch was "one of the most influential and intriguing musicians to have come out of the British music scene".
Jansch influenced a ton of musicians, including Paul Simon, Donovan, Neil Young, Bernard Butler (Suede), Graham Coxon (Blur), and recently Fleet Foxes and Marco Mahler.
RE-ISSUE, RE-PACKAGE, RE-PACKAGE:
Speaking of Johnny Marr, one of the best Smiths song is called "Paint a Vulgar Picture", which is about a death of a singer and the "sycophantic slags" executives are celebrating and scheming to release a best-of, most-of release.
The good news is that I just read that Marr remastered the entire Smiths catalog called Smiths Complete at a reasonable price ($55), that's less than if you bought each Smiths album individually. However, for the true collectors, you may want to splash out for the vinyl release (which is about $190).
Even though I already own all the albums (in both 12" and CD), I will actually buy this new release, just because I want to hear the new remastered sound. I've always thought that their first album's audio production was completely terrible, so I'm hoping to fall in love with it on the new re-release.
Read the two-page article:
DEAD LEAF ECHO:
As with previous articles this week, we're spotlighting a CMJ band. And this one fits the bill: Dead Leaf Echo.
The band just finished their debut album, scheduled for early 2012. Look for their lead-single "Kingmaker" on 7" vinyl this fall on Custom Made Music.
More details on www.deadleafechonyc.com. Here is their CMJ shows, plus other dates:
SONIC DEATH:
Thanks to Cristina who passed this along, but the big shocker comes from Huff Po reporting that Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have separated after being married for twenty-seven years.
The news is a bit of a shock to me, I first came to Sonic Youth with Goo and Dirty and continued to follow the band (even though they were a wee bit too experimental and weird sometime for my music taste).
Just out of pure speculation, I am assuming this also spells the death of Sonic Youth, because, at least to me, Sonic Youth would not be the same without both Gordon and Moore.
Speaking of death, influential folk music, Bert Jansch, passed away earlier this week (October 5th). He was 67. It is not made clear what he had died of, but since he had both heart and lung surgeries (2005 and 2009 respectively), I would hazard a guess that he was in poor health.
Johnny Marr, of the legendary The Smiths, is quoted as saying how Jansch was "one of the most influential and intriguing musicians to have come out of the British music scene".
Jansch influenced a ton of musicians, including Paul Simon, Donovan, Neil Young, Bernard Butler (Suede), Graham Coxon (Blur), and recently Fleet Foxes and Marco Mahler.
Speaking of Johnny Marr, one of the best Smiths song is called "Paint a Vulgar Picture", which is about a death of a singer and the "sycophantic slags" executives are celebrating and scheming to release a best-of, most-of release.
The good news is that I just read that Marr remastered the entire Smiths catalog called Smiths Complete at a reasonable price ($55), that's less than if you bought each Smiths album individually. However, for the true collectors, you may want to splash out for the vinyl release (which is about $190).
Even though I already own all the albums (in both 12" and CD), I will actually buy this new release, just because I want to hear the new remastered sound. I've always thought that their first album's audio production was completely terrible, so I'm hoping to fall in love with it on the new re-release.
Read the two-page article:
As with previous articles this week, we're spotlighting a CMJ band. And this one fits the bill: Dead Leaf Echo.
The band just finished their debut album, scheduled for early 2012. Look for their lead-single "Kingmaker" on 7" vinyl this fall on Custom Made Music.
More details on www.deadleafechonyc.com. Here is their CMJ shows, plus other dates:
CMJ- Saturday Oct. 22nd Vaudeville Park 7PM
Perfect Prescription- Shea Stadium/Brooklyn Thursday Oct. 27th w/The Morning After Girls
Washington DC. Gold Leaf Studios- Saturday Nov. 5th
Perfect Prescription- Shea Stadium/Brooklyn Thursday Oct. 27th w/The Morning After Girls
Washington DC. Gold Leaf Studios- Saturday Nov. 5th
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