Wednesday Intermezzo: An NPR Launch
NPR has completely outdone itself this time: The media folks yesterday launched a new website promoting the best of public radio music. The diverse new site contains free streams and features on a wide variety of artists ranging from classical violin player Joshua Bell to alt-rockers The New Pornographers. But it’s Monitor Mix — a blog written by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein — that wins the award for coolest feature on the new website. Check it.
- The Week Daily addresses the state of the music industry
- Legendary house DJ/producer Kenny Dope remixes Sharon Jones and the Dap-kings’ Keep On Looking
- Now you can finally buy your own Ghostface Killa doll [via tds]
- Done deal: Universal Pictures secured the rights to use Nirvana’s music in a forthcoming biopic about Kurt Cobain
- Prince fansites fight back against the purple one’s litigious ways
- A little exhaustion is good for creativity: The White Stripes used their time off the road to record some new songs and film a video
- Gothamist interviews Pitchfork faves Tokyo Police Club
- Marco Benevento announced a January residency at Sullivan Hall in NYC
- Derek Trucks balances life between families
- HeadCount plans to register 200,000 voters at concerts
- Gogol Bordello brought Gypsy Punk to Terminal 5
- Gene Ween documented the recording of La Cucaracha [via Wilson]
And, finally, try your luck at Rolling Stone’s Almost-Impossible Rock & Roll Quiz to see if you could beat Neeko’s high score of 39…it really is almost impossible.
As a little bonus, here’s some Gene Ween solo stuff from La Cucharacha
Learnin’ To Love:
Spirit Walker:
43
damn you neeko and darren. I got a 37.
also, re: the Sharon Jones/Dap-Kings, check out the Budos Band soon making a few gigs with Sharon Jones (A Cannot Miss for any northeast music lover)
They weren’t joking around with that quiz - I did manage a 37 though.
Not exactly music related, but I like this story…the Dude, You’re Gettin’ a Dell guy now works at Tortilla Flats:
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/11/dell_dude_now_tequila_dude_at.html?gs-recent
Sweet. Dude, you’re gettin’ a sandwich!
37 here as well
Got a 40.
to be fair, i had more than one or two educated guesses… i really did not know the exact renegotiated price of tom petty’s 81 release
New Marco Benevento residency is great news. There had better be some Chamberlain/Mathis/Benevento in there…I love that trio.
The Marco residency is awesome news…Looks like this is the schedule at Sullivan Hall, which is actually gonna be the new name of the Lion’s Den:
Jan 3rd
Steven Bernstein - slide trumpet
DJ Olive - turntables
Bobby Previte - drums
Marco Benevento - circuit bent toys, piano
Jan 10th
Brad Barr (The Slip) - guitar
Aimee Curl (Thamusemeant) - upright bass
MB - piano
Jan 17th
To Be Announced
Jan 24th
Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood) - drums, percussion
Calvin Weston - drums
Skerik (Garaj A Trois, Critters Buggin.) - tenor sax
MB - piano and KeyBass
Jan 31st
Andrew Barr (The Slip) - drums
Reed Mathis (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) - bass
MB - piano
I got a 44 on the rock quiz.
YOU SCORED 44: EXPERT
Sullivan Hall - really? I don’t think the name change is going to get me in the door, though a Marco residency might. They really need to step up their bookings.
Looks as if it’s actually going to be called The Sullivan Room, not Hall. But fear not their tradition of booking tribute bands will continue.
41 - but I guessed on SO many of those!
rope……….a…………dope.
nice artist list for marco’s rez.
caught him w/ previte’s coalition prog-rock group a year or so ago.
also saw the same group minus Marco, but w/ Robert Walter, Charlie Hunter and Skerik and it was hot.
The last two weeks of his rez at the new lions den looks hot!
thanks ace.
oh, and pard my lazy ass, but who is “steven Bernstein”? (marco’s 1st residency week).
Trumpet player, and a badass one at that…Sex Mob and other projects.
carrie brownstein’s ‘monitor mix’ blog on npr.com is hilarious. thanks fer turning me on to it, scotty b…