Pains of being pure at heart- "idem" LP 2009

Our s/t debut on Slumberland Records (us) + Fortuna Pop (uk) will be released in Feb. 2009 on CD/LP/MP3.

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THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART

Meet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, a New York four-piece who plays dreamy, noisy pop with boy/girl vocals, blissful melodies and blistering drums. Despite only having been together for the best part of a year, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are fast becoming the most name-dropped band in underground circles on both sides of the Atlantic. Their debut album will be released on Fortuna POP! in February 2009.

“Sunshiney C86 pop with jangly guitars and a slightly fuzzy underbelly, coming across like early My Bloody Valentine meeting the Smiths.” (SoundsXP)

http://www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart
http://www.thepainsofbeingpureatheart.com

Mojo Febrero 2009

In this issue

FREE CD: MOTOWN NUGGETS! This month MOJO celebrates Motown's 50th anniversary with 15 of the finest tracks from soul's greatest label. Feast on gems from Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Martha and The Vandellas, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Supremes and many more!

THE 100 GREATEST MOTOWN TRACKS: Honouring Motown's golden birthday celebrations in style, MOJO chronicles the Detroit hit factory's remarkable history with a rundown of their 100 greatest tracks chosen by the likes of Iggy Pop, Mark E Smith, MC5, Gnarls Barkley, The Clash, Paul Weller and many more. PLUS! Exclusive interviews with Motown's main players including Berry Gordy, Holland-Dozier-Holland and Martha Reeves!
TODD RUNDGREN: The master of the three-minute pop song has turned his back on left-field eclecticism for another stab at arena rock. In this month's MOJO Interview the studio wizard explains to Peter Doggett why, this time, he can't afford to repeat himself.

FRANZ FERDINAND: The Scottish alt-rockers have returned from a three-year hiatus and are now ready to reclaim their place among the upper echelon of British pop greats with a new album dripping in late night hedonism. "We're allowed to do what the fuck we want this time," they tell MOJO.

MITCH MITCHELL: As the driving force behind Jimi Hendrix's rhythm section, Mitchell's jazz flourishes formed an integral part of the '60s most influential rock trio. MOJO's Mat Snow looks back at the drummer's career and delves into the kaleidoscopic world of the Experience's last epic, Electric Ladyland.

9 FOR '09: Behold! From star-studded mash-ups to neo-classical ska-pop, MOJO picks the best new acts guaranteed to brighten the year ahead.

REVIEWED!: Antony and the Johnsons soar towards new terrain / Franz Ferdinand take us nightclubbing / Kraut-folk newcomers The Phantom Band / Guns N' Roses / Doug Paisley / Justice / Hawkwind retrospectives / The Factory box set / Pavement

PLUS! Mick Fleetwood / Seasick Steve at the MOJO Club / Peter Gabriel / XTC / Manic Street Preachers / Captain Sensible / Gary Lightbody / Ultravox / Farewell, Mama Afrika.

AND FINALLY… Our Weird Record Club sees a bewildered Jonny Trunk trying to pack in a few filthy habits with the help of charismatic failure Reveen.
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Joanie Summers: The Pepsi Girl

Joanie Sommers (born February 24, 1941) is an American singer and actress.

In the early 1960s, she sang It's Pepsi, For Those Who Think Young in commercials and came to be referred to as 'The Pepsi Girl'. Years later, uncredited, she sang Now You See It, Now You Don't, Oh, Diet Pepsi for the sugar-free companion product.

Her 1965 track Don't Pity Me (Warner Bros. 5629 - Don't Pity Me / My Block) became a huge Northern Soul hit in the UK and still fills the dance floors whenever played

Lecturas: los coleccionistas de discos en el blog de la escuela moderna

Pues si, el Kiko Amat dedica un montón de posts -lleva ya 20- a ese raro especimen humano que tanta literatura ha causado y que -a mi también- fascina cada vez más.

Naturalmente el coleccionista de por si es un ser con una indiscutible tara que no le hace ver en la vida más allá de sus objetos preciados. Ello provoca situaciones divertidas a la par que grotescas y en la escuela moderna hay hasta 20 casos de estos, tanto nacionales como extranjeros. Uno de los más divertidos es el caso de un ex miembro de The Membranes que actualmente codirige la tienda Intoxica en Londres. Ahí va un par de anécdotas del hombre. (Más en http://www.laescuelamoderna.blogspot.com/

- Fui a la casa de dos hermanos que me prometieron que tenían miles de LPs. Los tenían. Incluso el lavabo estaba hasta arriba de discos. Llegué a las 9:00 de la mañana y me fuí de allí a las 18:00 de la tarde con el coche lleno hasta los topes. Mientras yo buscaba por entre sus cajas, los dos hermanos habían pasado el día sentados delante de la televisión, viendo hardcore porno, bebiendo birras y debatiendo por qué sus mujeres los habían abandonado. Sé que los $5000 dólares que les pagué por su colección se invirtió en las mejores putas de Pennsicola.

- Volví a una tienda que había visitado un año antes, y allí me mostraron el artículo que había aparecido hacía un año en un periódico local sobre un misterioso inglés (yo) que se había dejado una pasta en discos raros en la tienda. ¡Con fotos incluidas!

Bob Stanley’s siesta-themed playlist

Aquí http://www.chickfactor.com/2008/12/top-ten-lists.html Gail nos ha hecho un regalo estupendo. Sobre todo este top 10 de Bob Stanley sobre sus canciones favoritas para la siesta... Algunas ya las conocoía pero hay un par de revelaciones de las que me he quedado prendado: Priscilla Paris y Clydie King

Bob Stanley’s siesta-themed playlist

1. Love Letters - Ketty Lester2. Wondrous Place - Billy Fury 3. He Noticed Me - Priscilla Paris 4. Missin' My Baby - Clydie King5. All I Wanna Do (from Sunflower, not 20/20)- The Beach Boys6. Try - John Barry7. Chanson d'O - Francoise Hardy8. Sara - Fleetwood Mac9. Oh My Love - John Lennon10. Amore Come Dolore - Ennio Morricone

David Candy, Paul Jones, el film "Privilege" y él

En el mini lp que le editaron Siesta/jet Set/If en el 2001 a David Candy (el que fuera miembro de Nation of Ulysses y The Make Up), hay una bonita canción titulada "Bad Bad Boy" que luego ha resultado ser una versión. La original la interpreta Paul Jones (cantante de Manfred Mann) en la película de culto inglesa "Privilege" (ver http://blog.allmovie.com/2008/08/21/744/) con el título de "I´ve had a bad bad boy". Está claro que él está detrás de esto.

"London" – Frida Hyvönen

Bonita canción folkie de esta sueca amiga de The Concretes.

La canción está disponible en: http://unpopular.typepad.com/unpopular/2008/12/london.html

Ahora estoy con la discografía (completa) de Broadcast

HOJA PROMOCIONAL DE HAHA SOUND POR BOB STANLEY

Walking into Rough Trade in covent garden some seven years ago, instead of the regulation dub or atonal screech-rock, i heard the oddest space lullaby, a mechanical melancholy waltz. peeking at the record deck, the hand-stamped label told me it was ‘accidentals’, the first single by broadcast. i bought two copies, just in case.
i was intrigued enough to go and see them on their home ground, at the unpromisingly named jug of ale in birmingham the following week. it didn’t live up to its name. with lights and a film show to shame anyone i’d seen in the last five years, it felt more like i’d walked into the party scene in midnight cowboy. this may not have been entirely accidental. broadcast looked incredible. beatnik technicians, fierce concentration. clearly, they cared a lot about their music. and it turned out ‘accidentals’ wasn’t even close to being their best song. pretty soon, i realised they were the group i’d always dreamt about.
the music was bent on fighting the forces of reaction - more radiophonic than radio clash, lalo schifrin instead of led zeppelin. music that tried to break out, burst free into utopia using electronica, twisted samples, perverse rhythms and otherworldly wordless vocals. music that suggested a million new directions, none of them pointing to memphis or moseley shoals. broadcast made further leaps forward, signing to warp and releasing work and non work (a collection of early singles) then the noise made by people in spring 2000.
this was where their pop sensibilities and experimental urges became fully assimilated: ‘papercuts’, ‘come on let’s go’, ‘you can fall’, which director lynne ramsay used as a pivotal song in the film morvern callar.
hardening their aesthetic, they worked their way through three different producers before realising the unspoken understanding that ran between them meant that they were the only people capable of finishing what they’d started. the reviews tripped over themselves with gushing adjectives.
with haha sound even outside studios have been forsaken - it was all recorded in james’ house bar the drums, which were taped in a church hall across the road. the influences are again cinematic (trish references milos forman’s loves of a blonde, hans richter’s dreams that money can buy, and the beautiful czech horror/fairytale valerie and her week of wonders) as much as musical. karl orff’s musica poetica is also cited – "absolutely amazing tunes," says trish, "little christmas songs for kids to sing at school." james plumps for eccentric british jazzman, basil kirchin. they worry that french singers like zouzou and clothilde are too obvious to mention, when they are clearly not. "steve from tommy boy used to laugh because we’d talk about joseph byrd (of electronica pioneers united states of america) as if he was john lennon, like he was the most famous person in america!"
broadcast are not the kind of group who bash you over the head with some coarse gimmick. haha sound steals into your mind, gently drenches it with found sounds and the sweetest melodies. like cindy sherman’s self-portraits, they are beautiful and unsettling - hints of ancient folk song dipped in a world of echo. they are still my favourite group.
~ bob stanley

SHIVERS INSIDE PART 43 Broadcast – The Noise Made By People – LP BY JOHN CARNEY

It was a bit sneaky the way I managed to get the song used. We were all being humoured and given a chance to get involved. I know my best mate at work thought it was fantastic to get Joy Division’s Atmosphere featured, but that’s not exactly way out these days is it? They’re very classic rock now Joy Division aren’t they? It did work brilliantly though. Very sobering. But Broadcast were less obvious. So when they were in a bit of a rush to put a montage together of Sven’s travels during the half-time of the France v Portugal match, somehow everyone thought the insouciance and unattainability of Trish sort of fitted. I think a few knew it was a bit of a left field pop thing, some thought it was a bit Carpenters or Saint Etienne, and it was that pop sheen that got it through.

I thought it was really funny afterwards when people were reading all sorts of meaning into the way the song was used. The line about “what’s the point in wasting time on people you’ll never know …”. People were tapping way on their blogs about how that was a cunning condemnation of Sven’s selections. Was it heck! We just needed a song to use quickly that was going to be a bit different, and that was the one I was playing most on my iPod. People were too preoccupied by Ronaldo to worry too much about a bit of music. But the response was so good that it got used again to soundtrack Italy’s route to the final. I was so proud of that.

It wasn’t even as though I was the world’s greatest Broadcast fan. I’ve got a few of their records. Love the poppy bits. Hate the twiddly bits. And I don’t think they’ve bettered those few songs on The Noise Made By People. Unchanging Window. Come On Let’s Go. Papercuts. Really lovely. There’s a great bit in Papercuts where Trish sings about writing a page about me in your diary, and the word diary is streched out into three syllables, and that’s really sexy like Rihanna extending her umber-ella. Just everything seemed to fall together on those songs for me. They stepped out of Stereolab’s shadow and stole the show. I had a bit of a crush on the singer too. She had that Sandie Shaw or Francoise Hardy thing going on with her fringe which I’m a sucker for.

The irony is, and this is where I feel a bit of a fraud but hey ho, that Broadcast are about as contemporary as I get. As work gets more pressing, more pressured, and families and things become more important, music takes a bit of a back seat. So I can’t really take credit for being super hip. But the World Cup owes me in a way, so fair’s fair.

Betty Blake sings in a tender mood LP 1960

Vocalist Betty Blake made one fine recording for Bethlehem in 1960, Betty Blake Sings in a Tender Mood. On the strength of it, she deserved more opportunities and exposure.

(De allmusic)

BETTY BLAKE

Here’s another singer who started out with big bands. Betty Blake sang with Buddy Morrow from 1955 to 1957. But after leaving Morrow she seemed to drop below radar until 1961 when her Bethlehem LP ("Tender Mood") was released. The album contained a large number of Alec Wilder songs. And one side of a 45 Blake made for the Golden Crest label, “The Lady Sings the Blues,” was also written by Wilder. Blake also appeared as a guest artist on a Golden Crest LP. But after her Bethlehem effort, nothing is known of any other professional activity until her death of cancer at age 63 on September 19, 2001. Something of a mystery, for the Blake’s lone album is a good one and received some nice reviews. The musicians include Teddy Charles, Zoot Sims, Kenny Burrell and Mal Waldron.

(Tracks: Let There Be Love, Love is Just Around the Corner)

de http://people-vs-drchilledair.blogspot.com/2006/12/one-shot-wonders-part-7.html

El cancionero de Bacharach & David visto por...

The Dells Sing Dionne Warwick's Greatest Hits - 1972

Forget Dionne Warwick, and think Burt Bacharach -- because on this sublime little set, The Dells are singing some of Burt's greatest tunes ever -- all set to impeccable arrangements by the legendary Charles Stepney! The album's more wonderful than you might even expect -- a true high point in the career of all parties involved -- and a tremendous recasting of Bacharach's original brilliance -- taking his key compositions into the most sophisticated styles of the Chicago soul scene in the 70s! There's a sense of timing and phrasing here that's quite unique -- hardly simple covers of Dionne Warwick's approach to these hits -- and Stepney's backings feature his own Fender Rhodes, guitar from Phil Upchurch, percussion from members of The Pharoahs, and some fuller horns, harp, and strings. The Dells are equally great too -- and serve up some of the best vocals of their career -- really magnificent harmonies, and soaring solo parts that seem to even go beyond their best-known hits. Titles include "Walk On By", "Trains & Boats & Planes", "I Say A Little Prayer", "Wives & Lovers", "Close To You", "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself", "This Guy's In Love With You", "Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head", and "A House Is Not A Home".

Anita Kerr Singer Reflect on the Hits of Burt Bacharach and Hal David 1967

Any lover of 70s tunes, especially Bacharach, will love this double album set of Anita Kerr singers. The quartet's harmony and arranging is superb and the talented foursome provides its own introspection on some of Bacharach's more meaningful songs, i.e Alfie, Windows of the World, etc. This is not Ray Conniff by any means. Sublime vocals and a disc you'll never tire of listening to.

Best Songs of 2008: A Take The Pills! Compilation

el blog take the pills ha colgado (aquí: Download ) sus 29 canciones favoritas del año. Además hacen su lista de mejores lps y eps del 2008 (http://takethepills.blogspot.com/2008/12/various-artists-best-songs-of-2008-take.html )

Jeanne Moreau - "The Inmortal"

él Records edita esta recopilación de la actriz francesa. "La Vie Cocagne" es el hit. Fuera de este cd me he encontrado también otro gran tema fechado en 1965 titulado "Quelle Merveille Ton Coeur".

Released 20/10/08.

If there was a single actor who captured the very essence of the French New Wave, it was Jeanne Moreau. In Truffaut's groundbreaking Jules et Jim she achieved global recognition, giving a performance of spellbinding intensity as the mercurial Catherine, who becomes tragically entwined in the lives of two friends who both love her. During the film, she was required to perform the song, Tourbillon de La Vie (Whirlpool of Life), which Truffaut felt encapsulated the spirit of his masterpiece. Her recording went on to become a massive radio hit and prompted the idea of recording a full LP under the auspices of producer Jacques Canetti.

The award-winning albums that transpired in 1963 and 1966 comprise this edition and feature songs written by Cyrus Bassiak (Serge Rezvani). The debut in collaboration with George Delerue and the legendary Ward Swingle, its elaborate orchestrations giving way on the sequel to more intimate and sensuous settings with guitar and bass. A Jules & Jim apart, cinematic highlight include Chimes at Midnight and The Immortal Story for Orson Welles; Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Bunuel) and for Louis Malle The Lift to The Scaffold and Viva Maria in which she co-starred with Brigitte Bardot Jeanne Moreau is global in her appeal.

Jamais Je Ne T'Ai Dit Que Je T'aimerai Toujours / Tout Morose J'Avais Un Ami / Les Mots De rien / Anonyme / Adieu Ma vie / Tu M'Agaces / Tantôt rouge, Tantôt bleu / Ou Vas-Tu Mathilde / Les Wagons Longs De Lit / Angora Rose / Les Mains Sur Les Tempes / J'Ai La Mémoire Qui Flanche / La Vie S'Envole / La Peau Léon / Rien N'Arrive Plus / Moi Je Préfère / Le Blues Indolent / La Vie De Cocagne / L'Homme D'Amour / L'Horloger / Ni Trop Tôt, Ni Trop Tard / Les Mensonges / L'Amour Flou

Kiki Dee on Dusty (Time out London 10-04-2008)

The Three Wise Men - "Thanks for Christmas" 1983

Este single es -junto a The Pogues (with Kirsty McColl) "Fairytale of New York"- mi canción navideña favorita. En realidad no son más que XTC con pseudónimo. Lo más curioso es que las canciones del single vienen firmadas como Kaspar, Melchoir and Balthazar... NOTE: Recorded by XTC and released under The Three Wise Men. Both sides are non-album tracks. Produced by XTC and David Lord (credited as The Three Wise Men and the Good Lord). Recorded at Crescent Studios, Bath, Avon, October 1983."Countdown to Christmas Party Time" features backing vocals by Erica Wexler. Andy originally intended to invite some office girls from Virgin Records to sing on the record and call them the Virgin Marys.Although authorship of both songs is credited to Kaspar, Melchoir, and Balthazar, they were actually written by Andy. It was never decided who was Kaspar, Melchoir, or Balthazar among the XTC members.

May also be found on the album Rag & Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts & Leftovers (comp.)

Unpopular songs of the year

Alistair Fitchett está colgando en su blog sus canciones favoritas del año. Además del mp3, hay comentario y foto de cada una de ellas: http://unpopular.typepad.com/unpopular/

Russ Garcia - "I Lead a Charmed Life" de "Sounds of The Night" 1957

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Released 27/11/08. Regarded to be one of the best vocal group albums ever recorded, Sounds In the Night combines the hauntingly delicate arrangements of Russ Garcia with the extraordinary wordless vocals of the soprano, Marni Nixon, whose voice reached millions through such movies as The King and I, My Fair Lady and West Side Story, for which she ghosted the vocals of Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood. (She also stepped in to provide the high notes for Marilyn Monroe's rendition of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend).

This edition also features Marni Nixon performing Dennis Farnon’s Mother Magoo Suite, which with its magical, hovering orchestration and gently rocking chords, taps into a vein of mystical wonder reminiscent of Walter Schumann's soundtrack for the classic 1955 film Night of the Hunter.

Roy Budd - "Diamonds" 1975

Investigando los favoritos de Mike Alway me he topado con esta maravilla. Es la canción que da título a una de las muchas bandas sonoras que compuso el inglés Roy Budd. Cantan el trío vocal -sonido Philadelphia- The Three Degrees. 100 % Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick

(From Blaxploitation.com): Only issued in Italy (as 'Colpa Da Un Miliardo Di Dollari', shown here) and the UK, this is without doubt Budd's finest soundtrack. Elements of his earlier work can be clearly heard in the Middle Eastern segments of the LP and use of distinctive instrumentation. The album features music from a surprisingly good heist movie starring Richard Roundtree, shot in Israel. Many of the best tracks were not included in the movie. The album contains raw funk ('The Thief'), jazz ('Party Piece'), an easy listening-with-wah bossa nova ('Brauty And The Bass') and a sentimental soulful theme by the Three Degrees in addition to some excellent atmospheric Eastern-influenced tracks. Look out for Budd's trademark use of deep bass to underpin his dark, menacing funk themes. Quite superb.

(from http://www.cherryred.co.uk/el/artists/roybudd.htm: Roy Budd is best known for his brilliant score for the Michael Caine gangster movie 'Get Carter' one of the most popular British films of modern times and one that is regularly shown on television and spoken of both as Caine's best. Roy Budd was a virtuoso pianist often seen on British television in the sixties/early seventies when Budd was a major figure at the centre of the London jazz/mod scene. Like the voices of Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield, Budd's piano is one of the distinctive sounds of the sixties and this album should be classified soundtrack first, then pop/lounge, then jazz.

No son Orange Juice, aunque lo parezca - TWIG "Ciao Ciao Bomb" (El primer single de vinilo de Cloudberry

VER VÍDEO CLIP aquí: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=43375794

Mike Alway en The Guardian

http://c86indiepoparchive.blogspot.com/2008/12/mike-alway-en-guardian-music-to-watch.html

Your Heart Out, el nuevo fanzine de Kevin Pearce

Gracias a Jumped-Up Pantry Boy, me entero de que Kevin Pearce ha vuelto a hacer fanzines.

http://pantry.wordpress.com/2008/11/22/something-beginning-with…-y/ :

A friend of ours is at it again, some twenty years after last venturing out in fanzine format. Click here to download … your heart out, and read thoughts – always entertaining and often preconception-destroying – about the mod revival, Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida, the Fallen Leaves, jazz singers of the fifties and sixties, Charles Stepney, Bacharach and David, travels in MySpace, YouTube gems, Raw Records, Betrand Burgalat and Robert Wyatt, bossa nova, and Marina Van-Rooy and Peter Coyle. And, of course, spinning off at tangents in all directions.

Hasta ahora he leído la mitad (estoy por su majestuoso artículo de las chicas jazz de los 50 y 60) y es realmente fantástico, descubriendo, al menos para mi, cosas nuevas que desconocía totalmente (aunque The Fallen Leaves me parecen horribles y los grupos neomod de los 80 un tanto cuestionables, pero todo es opinable e incluso leerle es una gozada por el entusiasmo que transmite).

Por si fuera poco en Caught by The River -el blog de Heavenly Records- me he encontrado también escritos suyos (http://caughtbytheriver.net/?s=kevin+pearce ) y también he descubierto que mi adorado John Carney, es realidad es él (http://antirockblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/john-carney.html )

La foto de este post, corresponde a una de las chicas jazz de las que habla en Your Heart Out. Al buscar-encontrar estos discos me he topado con una gozada no sólo musical, sino también de diseños y portadas. Es sólo una muestra de la riqueza iconográfica de la época.

Mike Alway (que a traves de él-Cherry red está reeditando también cosas en esta onda), Bob Stanley, Joe Forster y Kevin Pearce son los verdaderos gurus de descubrir los tesoros del pasado...

Lecturas: Joe Forster (por Alan Mcgee) y el sello de moda, Slumberland Records

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/nov/25/joe-foster-creation-slaughter-joe

http://finestkiss.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/slumberland-records-interview/

Brogues blog - Single of the Year

Track of the year para indie-mp3.co.uk

El Gran single navideño de The Wedding Present (¡featuring Simone White!)

WEDDING PRESENT CHRISTMAS DOWNLOAD SINGLE OUT NOW

The Wedding Present’s 2008 Christmas EP is available now for download.

“HOLLY JOLLY HOLLYWOOD” is a festive duet in the classic tradition where David Gedge shares the vocal duties with much-admired American songstress Simone White. David, who wrote the song with Wedding Present bass player Terry de Castro while living in Los Angeles says: “I’ve wanted to release a proper, bona fide, Christmas song for years, so this is something of an ambition fulfilled.” There is also an acoustic version of the song where the female vocals are provided by Terry. The third track on the EP is the band’s beautiful version of WHITE CHRISTMAS.

Pam Berry DJ

En el zine Wrap your troubles hay una deliciosa entrevista con la ex Glo Worm, Black Tambourine y ahora en The Pines, Pam Berry. Aunque asegura que ahora está muy ocupada con sus dos hijos y con sus manualiades y antiguedades (http://craft-ho.blogspot.com/), ocasionalmente hace de dj y pincha "country crooners, ladies singing Bacharach, some old stuff like Opal, Revolving Paint Dream y The Weather Prophets."

Por cierto en Chickfactor dicen que acaba de cumplir 10 años de casada. http://www.chickfactor.com/2008/11/happy-decade-pam-mike.html felicidades

(FOTOS

de los blogs de heavens is above, think small y del propio de Pam Berry

El paraíso de Bob Wratten

en el zine wrap your troubles el líder de Trembling Blue Stars dice que este es "The loveliest place" en el que ha estado. Se trata de unas islas llamadas Sethlands (son un grupo de islas del Atántico Norte situadas entre las Feroe, el suroeste de Noruega y UK. Más info: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Shetland)

En concreto puntualiza un paraje llamado Bressay Lighthouse (más info: http://shetlopedia.com/Bressay_Lighthouse ) "It´s everything I could ever want from a place", dice

Rock de lux de Diciembre

Portada: Marianne Faithfull

Lee Hazlewood (2 páginas)

Robyn Hitchcock (2 pags)

50 años de bossa nova (4 pags)

Jabalina records (3 pgas y cd de regalo; ¡incluye zipi y zape!)

DVD pop del mes: el documental de Joy Division de Grant Gee (parece que lo han editado en España). Guillot dice: "Imprescindible" (film documentary directed by Grant Gee and written by Jon Savage

Lp del mes: Jolie Holland

El Kiko este mes: entrevista a Oxford Collapse y" y hace la crítica del lp de Euros Child al que califica de "lindo". También la de un libro de Robert Abella: "Revival Mod 1974-1988. Historia de un renacer" del que dice que "no es el libro definitivo sobre el revival mod".