this-is-indie-rock:
Swedish group jj have released brand new mixtape ‘Kills’ as a free download for fans.
Releasing their debut single back in 2009, jj owe much of their success to the internet. Signed to a tiny Scandinavian indie label the duo – Joakim Benon and Elin Kastlander – were able to gain worldwide…
January 8, 2011
“He constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back, I know of no sadder story.”
The unfinished draft of a 1971 letter from Stanley Kubrick to an associate where he states, “I expect to make the best movie ever made.” (via lettersofnote)
Watch: Laura Marling Plays 5 New Songs Live
January 4, 2011
The meteoric rise of Laura Marling’s career following last year’s release of her brilliant second album, I Speak Because I Can, may not have peaked just yet, but the 20-year-old singer-songwriter already has another collection of Ethan Johns-produced recordings arriving “soon.” While the time frame for that release is obviously unknown, she has been previewing new material on the road in recent months. In addition to “Rest In the Bed” and “Don’t Ask Me Why”, which she debuted last spring, Marling played three more new tunes, “Night After Night”, “Who Am I?”, and “Heaven Again”, at subsequent shows.
Get a sneak peek at what might be showing up on LP3 via the collection of videos below:
White Stripes Reissue Captain Beefheart Covers/Sub Pop Singles
January 4, 2011
Sonic Youth aren’t the only ones to dust off their in-the-vault Captain Beefheart covers in light of the legendary avant garde rocker’s recent passing: Third Man Records announced the 2011 First Quarter package for their subscription service/fanclub, the Vault, today, which includes a double-LP compilation of last year’s singles (we’re talking incredible recordings from Laura Marling, Wanda Jackson, Conan, and more here, people), a 5.6.7.8’s 7-inch, and a reissue of their 2001 Sub Pop Singles Club contribution — “Party of Special Things to Do”, “China Pig,” and “Ashtray Heart” — in honor of both Don Van Vliet and Sub Pop’s Andy Kotowicz, who tragically passed away at only 37 in October.
Join The Vault before January 31 for the aforementioned goods (honestly, this is probably their best offering yet), and revisit the early Stripes take on “China Pig” after the jump:
If it wasn’t for John Lennon, we’d all be someplace very different tonight. It’s an unreasonable world, and you get asked to live with a lot of things that are just unlivable.
Bruce Springsteen on John Lennon
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2010 in review
January 2, 2011
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about *180,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 8 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 617 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 718 posts. There were 490 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 981mb. That’s about 1 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was September 2nd with 24,000 views. The most popular post that day was QOTD.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were stumbleupon.com, twitter.com, ow.ly, facebook.com
Some visitors came searching, mostly for chris coleman kings of leon, nathan followill, dexter and lumen, jared followill, and winklevoss.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
QOTD August 2010
27 comments
Pic of the Day June 2010
6 comments
QOTD July 2010
Pic of the Day July 2010
Listen to Dave August 2010
*FYI According to Stat Counter, (which has much more accurate accounting) I had 224.000 pageloads, and 181,000 unique visitors since March 2010 when I started using Stat Counter.
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