Achtung Baby!

Happy 10th To Bring You My Love

"To bring you my love" Original Release Date: February 28, 1995

[ Down By The Water (live) ]

I bought this album without having heard one song on it based on the fact that Flood had produced it and U2's Manager had become her manager. I trusted Paul McGuiness to have good taste. My previous exposure to Polly was one late night viewing of the video for "Rid Of Me" on 120 minutes. It quite spooked me. Minutes after buying it, my friend who gave me a ride tuned in to the local alt rock station and they played "Down By The Water". I knew I'd made the right choice. My friend was not so sure. To me, "TBML" is like a great lost western movie starring this bad ass woman we've never heard of with her long snake moan and her endless search for love.

+ Recollections based on the album To Bring You My Love, by PJ Harvey
+ PJ Harvey Audio including Moon River as performed live by Vincent Gallo, PJ & John Frusciante
+ Video Stills from her videos.
+ Classic Albums: Rid Of Me - "The first choice as producer was Tom Waits.."

More of Fiona Apple's "Extraordinary Machine"

[ 5 Tracks off Fiona Apple's Extraordinary Machine ]

In addition to last year's "Extraordinary Machine" and "Better Version of Me" now we have "Not About Love", "Used To Love Him" and "Get Him Back". "Not About Love" is the standout to me. The more songs that are leaked the more cohesive this work of hers becomes. Mind you, it has been well over a year since Sony faked us out and started press this album. So who knows what's next.

+ For nostalgia's sake: Mark Romanek's Criminal
+ Seattle radio playing new Fiona tracks
+ Alternate link to the songs

Classic Albums: Achtung Baby

BBC RADIO - Classic Albums: Achtung Baby

Unrelated: Bjork talks about Lars Von Trier on the new issue of BUST, which also has a Tori interview. All they needed was some PJ Harvey content and they could of had the holy trinity.

Over at Copy, right?: Okkervil River "Unravel" (Bjork cover)

" The sin I want to confess is intolerance. The excuse that I was seduced by the  arrogance of science is itself a lie that plummets to the ground. Perhaps it   is true, I did try to intoxicate myself in a cloud of sophistry about the meaning   of art and the duty of the artist; that I invented ingenious theories about   the anatomy and nature of film; but, and this I openly confess, at no time was   I ever able, with this simple smoke screen, to suppress my deepest passion:  my carnal need."
- L.V.T's Manifesto

Via Filter Magazine - the new Garbage Single "Why Do You Love Me?"

+ Garbage announces first leg of North American tour

A date in Sin City

The date is official: APRIL 1st

+ New Promo Pictures
+ 7 BIG FAT SCANS from "The Big Fat Kill"!
+ UGO Article: Welcome to Sin City
+ Character to actor comparasions, wallpapers

HST - Texas style

And Today's WTF moment goes to the crummy newspaper The Austin Statesman. What kind of story is this "Before Hunter S. Thompson, Texas had its own literary outlaws" ? So tacky. When someone dies you are supposed to do a tribute, not a "we have better ones here, he didn't come up with anything" story.

" If Hunter S. Thompson hadn't existed, Texas would have had to invent him. "

+ AP Interview: Son says Thompson may have just decided it was time

Unrelated: O'Quinn Finds Belated Stardom on 'Lost

Nellie McKay circa 2005

Wow. She looks...different. Like she grew up in an instant. And by growing up I mean, she doesn't have that 50's look about her.

Nellie McKay lives a lot of her life on the road. At one point last summer she performed in 30 different places -- including a benefit for Chinese children at the Great Wall of China -- in 60 days.
On the aggressiveness of some of her followers: ''There's not that much difference between putting your hand in your pocket and pulling out a pen for me to sign something with and pulling out a gun.''
The New York Times: An Alt-Cabaret Diva

+ Nellie to perform on the same bill with Coldplay and Rilo Kiley in March
+ Nellie hangs out with The Dressden Dolls at Sundance
+ Cumming, Falco, McKay Set for New Broadway Threepenny Opera

In Stores on March 22nd: Get Away From Me on Dual Disc

DVD SIDE:
- Entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound and enhanced LPCM Stereo
- Includes an intimate live performance that captures Nellie's unique bravado
- Shot in High Definition video and includes Stereo and Dolby 5.1 Surround mixes
- Features live favorites "Ding Dong," "The Dog Song," "It's A Pose," "I Wanna Get Married" and more

SXSW 2005 Music Schedule is up

SXSW 2005 Music Schedule is up [ via seeyouinthepit ] Some Choices: Kathleen Edwards ( She's gonna be on David Letterman March 1st )  , Aqualung ( "Brighter Than Sunshine" in Windows Media ) , The Raveonettes ( You can listen to "Love In A Trashcan" , the first single from their new album - scroll down a bit ), Tegan and Sara , Bloc Party ( some say "Bloc Party is the Best Motherf*ckin Band in the World" ), more later.

+ Austin Chronicle: SXSW INTERNATIONAL BANDS

Two Will Eisner things

Two Eisner things I ran into: DC's tribute inside their comics

And this image in this article: CBLDF Joins Defense in Georgia Obscenity Case

2 songs that remind me of my high school girl

[ Doves - Walk In Fire  ]

[ Mew - Her Voice Is Beyond Her Years ]

+ More MEW
+ Doves on NME

[ Space Oddity ]

The only hero I have or can think of is the monkey cosmonaut in the Russian capsule that got excited in space and broke loose from his restrains and began smashing the control board. The flight had to be canceled. - David Wojnarowicz
[ Natalie Merchant - Space Oddity ]