MERRY XMAS TO y’ALL. but esp all ya . . HAVE NOTS !!
and you damn well KNOW !! . . who you are !!
damn, I sure as hell know . . I’m one.
I post a piece on DUKE RILEY’S . . ‘TO HAVE NOT’. and, I get wiped out ?!!
what can I say . . NOT BAD.
in the poetry department (?)
so, MERRY XMAS and here’s a little festive reading, for all your unbound brains starving for some real intel, hot off the mainstream presses of the world:
KANYE WEST is getting sued big time for ripping off . . BOUND 2.
ha ha !!
bow down before the copyright gods of the 21st century . . !!
all ye fakes, frauds, posers, and no-brains.
I mean, we get that you won’t pay for original content.
but, that doesn’t mean you can just steal .. it.
it’s great holiday reading: “KANYE WEST sued by former child soul singer, RICKY SPICER . .” / MAIL ONLINE
it’s an amazing production, RICKY SPICER was all of 12 at the time. it was way back, deep back . . in the 70’s.
the summer of love and all . . AL GREEN, anybody ?
and it’s a . . beaut.
simulated waterfalls, and all.
plus dig that concept, 2 sets of twins !! and a lead singer. damn.
definite, hit: ‘BOUND’ by THE PONDEROSA TWINS PLUS ONE
oh yeah. bound . . to fall in love.
if writing “to have Not’ gets me wiped out, hey .. you never know !!
~MERRY XMAS . . RICKY SPICER |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | December 25th, 2013, 11:00am
at COMICAL RADIO . . .
‘NEW YORK, I THOUGHT I HEARD YOUR VOICE’.
so, so .. the way I’m . . . feeling.
so NEW YORK, so the way NEW YORK can be. tough, tough. gritty, and .. gentle.
must be that melody. must be that violin . .
like they say: nothing like a violin, to tug at the heart’s .. strings.
most def, catch: MICK LEWIS and THE FINE PRINT sing “NEW YORK …” @ COMICAL RADIO
comical, NOT.
more like, bitter sweet.
you can follow: MICK LEWIS & THE FINE PRINT on facebook
~MICK LEWIS and THE FINE PRINT |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | November 7th, 2013, 9:31am
DEDICATED TO: SIMON CERIGO, our music reviewer supremo, and big art buddy ..
who sadly left us, meaning earthly life in bio form .. this past Jan 2013.
SIMON was a big fan of ARCADE FIRE, and wrote up a definitive review for us, that posted on MAY 7 of 2007.
as you can see from the essay, Simon held a lot of oral history in his big, round, often .. partied-out, but way friendly .. head.
ARCADE FIRE is a Montreal based-band, and me and Simon both grew up on those long Montreal winter-time streets, too.
read: ARCADE FIRE – by SIMON CERIGO . . . including, images of the original graphics
ARCADE FIRE is making ‘waves’ . . this weekend, it’s a nautical weekend.
what can I tell you, Manhattan is an island !! and so is .. Montreal !!
because they are playing ‘underground’ under a barley disguised ‘nom de band’ – the REFLEKTORS, at a Bushwick, Brooklyn underground arts venue – 299 Meserole St, which only opened last November 2012. apparently tickets went on sale this past Wed to fans, who had pre-ordered the new album, but opened up to the general public yesterday. Formal attire or costume .. mandatory.
some background from yesterday’s WALL STREET JOURNAL . .
“Three years ago, the ARCADE FIRE, the Grammy-winning Canadian Indie rock band, released their album ‘The Suburbs’ with much fanfare, playing to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden.
This weekend, they are taking a different approach. The band is planning to introduce New Yorkers to their new double album, ‘Reflektor’, with a pair of lightly publicized concerts, played under a false name, in a former sheet-metal and plastics factory in an industrial pocket of Brooklyn with enough room for just 3,000 people . . .”
see: The Arcade Fire, Far From the Maddening Crowd, WALL STREET JOURNAL
note: re-paste the link in your browser, if necessary.
see: 299 MESEROLE ST, BUSHWICK
check it out: ARCADE FIRE, ‘RFLEKTOR’ . . the first song, on their new album . . is posted to YouTube
interestingly, esp for ‘small’ social media sites, like this one . .
the WALL STREET JOURNAL goes on to state:
“The Arcade Fire has taken a calculated, low-key guerrilla marketing approach to promoting ‘Reflektor’ and the band’s coming world tour. Interviews with the band have been extremely limited and despite a few positive early reviews, the album – one of the most anticipated of the year – hasn’t yet leaked on the Internet.”
SIMON would have swooned over the music and driven us all crazy playing it endlessly – at top volume.
but, he also would have been crazy – for the video, and so am I.
mostly what’s so great, are the BIG IDEAS !! but also that the production is so low-key, and as Simon would have stressed: authentic.
but what really freaked me out, was the poignant subject line.
they are transporting a coffin, the dead . . to the country, and we are doing just that, this weekend !!
we are taking a road trip . . to Vermont, and finally letting go of the ghost, Simon’s ashes . . into a rushing . . autumn fast turning winter – rural stream. in fact, as we found out, Simon’s last wish, as told to each one of us – at different times.
rural, inland water . . plays a big part in this video, and so does .. dancing !!
and I guess, celebrating the dead.
so, this is a nice send-off, or what.
“just a reflector ..
we all have things to hide,
see you on the other side.”
“we’re so connected ..
but are we even friends ?
see you on the other side.”
if you knew Simon, this will be a familiar pose . . he did dance like this, with his hands in the air.
our ‘REFLEKTOR’ . . sets off on .. his next journey.
Simon would have liked the metaphor of the mirrored man, the ‘reflektor’ !! – for the artist, the musician, the soul man, the time traveler, in all of us.
he esp prided himself, not just .. on being a natural born ‘mirror man’, but on being able .. to pinpoint a ‘mirror man’, for the rest of us.
Jack Goldstein, ca 1986 . . . anybody ?
P.S.
I did, incredibly . . cross paths with Hash Halper’s brother, astrologer OMKAR LEWIS last night, who actually told me: “WATCH OUT FOR VOICES WITH NO .. BODIES” !!!
hey, you know what they say: no man is . . an island.
SIMON and KATE, at the last band concert . . .
SIMON and THEO . . note the rubber admittance .. wrist bands.
~ARCADE FIRE .. REFLEKTOR .. SIMON CERIGO |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | October 18th, 2013, 9:43am
BROOKLYN UPDATE – REPORTING BY KATE CERIGO
HUGE !! – RATHBORNE RECORD RELEASE PARTY – TO-NITE . . SAT JULY 13, 2013
KNITTING FACTORY – 361 METROPOLITAN – BROOKLYN
RATHBORNE is a BROOKLYN-BASED BAND – FEATURING . . LUKE RATHBORNE and DARREN WILL.
DOORS OPEN: 7PM
SHOW STARTS: 8PM
TIX: $12
more info, see: RATHBORNE at KNITTING FACTORY
this is the OFFICIAL RECORD RELEASE PARTY for RATHBORNE’S new album, ‘SOFT’ – out on DILETTANTE RECORDS.
PRODUCED by EMERY DOBYNS.
CO-PRODUCED by ALBERT HAMMOND Jr and GUS OBERG.
RECORDED IN NYC.
~RATHBORNE . . ‘SOFT’ PARTY TO-NITE !! |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 13th, 2013, 10:34am
BROOKLYN UPDATE – REPORTING BY: KATE CERIGO
HEADS UP: RATHBORNE PLAYS – MERCURY LOUNGE – TONIGHT – TUES JULY 2, 2013 !!!
KATE TELLS US . . .
BROOKLYN-BASED .. LUKE RATHBORNE & THE BAND . . . have upped their game . . with their new song, LAST FORGIVEN.
the video . . sure is s-w-e-e-t.
CATCH: RATHBORNE – LAST FORGIVEN . . . YouTube
and, YES !! that is our friend . . DARREN WILL, playing bass on the right !!
the song is from their new album, SOFT – which drops JULY 13 on the DILETTANTE/True Believer label. the new CD is notably produced by EMERY DOBYNS & co-produced by GUS OBERG and Strokes guitarist ALBERT HAMMOND Jr.
the CD launch party is at THE KNITTING FACTORY in BROOKLYN, on JULY 16.
~RATHBORNE . . LAST FORGIVEN |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | July 2nd, 2013, 7:34am
CINDERS PROJECTS & FLA GALLERY
PRESENT A BIG MUSIC PARTY – SAT JUNE 1, 2013 / 7PM
in CONJUNCTION WITH THEIR TRAVELING PRINT ART SHOW: DIRTY FINGERS
“OVER 50 ARTISTS – MORE THAN 130 PRINTS”
26-19 JACKSON AVE – LONG ISLAND CITY / 1 BLOCK FROM P.S. 1 / FACEBOOK INVITE
featuring: RAFT, JEREMY SMOKING, and MICHAEL COLLINS of PRINCE RAMA
note: NO, this is NOT the exact order of the performance line-up – !!!!!
RAFT – PAT NOECKER / formerly of LIARS, THESE ARE POWERS and nOthings.
experimenting in his solo project persona, RAFT since 2002 – count on “conceptual compositions that can involve hybrid guitars, cell phones & crowd sourced content”.
IMAGE: RAFT IS PAT NOECKER via CINDERS
YES !! CHECK OUT HIS TUMBLR PAGE: RAFT is PAT NOECKER
IMAGE: RAFT IS PAT NOECKER/TUMBLR
YES !! CHECK OUT: unARTigNYC PRESENTS: ASSEMBLE X – KNOCKDOWN CENTER
RAFT’S – ASSEMBLE X – PERFORMS LIVE at KNOCKDOWN CENTER, Maspeth, Queens, NYC – MAY 11, 2013
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
JEREMY SMOKING / JUSTIN FRY, the man behind Brooklyn scuzzy punkers PC WORSHIP, will play a set under the name: JEREMY SMOKING.
YES !! check out: PC WORSHIP
haha, yes !!, check out: JEREMY SMOKING at Le WALLET – (only) 11 VIEWS – when we caught it !!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
MICHAEL COLLINS of PRINCE RAMA / will also be performing solo . . .
“croons over a sonic landscape of psychedelic sequencers and synths . . DISCO GOTH !!”
most eerie, check out: Radhika-Stava by MICHAEL COLLINS
~BLOW-OUT ART + MUSIC PAR-TAY . . SAT JUNE 1 |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 31st, 2013, 1:35pm
of . . . BENNIE & THE JETS !!!!!!!!!!!
catch . . C.F. / DAILY LIFE .. doing a MOST glorious cover of .. BENNIE and the JETS !!
hahaha the alternative universe – rules !!
HIT: DAILY LIFE@DIRT PALACE 31 JUL 10
PLAY IT LOUD.
C.F. – YOU rule !!
~C.F. / DAILY LIFE . . . a cover !! |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 22nd, 2013, 2:53pm
FILE UNDER: SINGULARITY.
looks like JOSH ‘LUVVY’ HARRIS, of WE LIVE IN PUBLIC fame .. was right, in the mass info digital age, singularity .. rules.
RAY MANZAREK, 74. died yesterday, MAY 20, 2013 – the legendary keyboardist/founding member of THE DOORS.
catch: THE DOORS – RIDERS ON THE STORM, the intro being his most famous riff.
” . . into this house we are born.
. . into this world we are thrown.”
the classic American icon / ‘still’: the singular car . . on the singular, and lonely highway.
IMAGE: THE DOORS – RIDERS ON THE STORM
in other SINGULARITY NEWS:
DAVID KARP, the NYC kid who just sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 Billion . . used to work at TEKSERVE !!
see: ‘DAVID KARP – Tumbling on success’ . . from 2012.
DAVID KARP . . IMAGE: FINANCIAL POST – MAY 20, 2013
DAVID KARP, ILLUSTRATION: JOAO MAIO PINTO – ADWEEK, JUNE 6, 2011
EESHA KARE . . IMAGE: DAILY TECH
EESHA KARE, 18 – a high school student out of SARATOGA, FLORIDA – won the recent / 2013 / $50,000 INTEL FOUNDATION YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD – for a flexible, and super fast .. battery charger !!
note: artlovers made the tech leap .. we are juiced !!
next up . .
JOE BRADLEY – LOTUS BEATERS . . PIX FROM THE OPENING – POSTING: WED MAY 22, 2013.
~KILLERS ON THE STORM . . |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | May 21st, 2013, 8:08am
. . . will the REAL . . . NICK CAVE – PLEASE STAND UP !!
FILE UNDER:
he’s a god, he’s a man, he’s a ghost, he’s a guru
you’ll see him in your nightmares
you’ll see him in your dreams,
but he’s not what he seems . . .
watch: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS .. RED RIGHT HAND
this seems to be the original 1994 soundtrack – I know because, it was the sound track to my life . . . for a long long time. it’s the true, driving .. birth.
yes, I was living off the Bowery, at the time.
listen to the man: “Play it LOUD”.
this is also a GREAT GREAT TAKE, just more recent & live !!
it’s slightly slowed down, and more to the edge of sexy, than deathly.
like … when the musicians push against the drive, and .. tease ya.
but it’s also better tech-wise – so, you can get it to go really loud.
watch: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS / live
DEDICATED TO YOU KNOW WHO . . . ghostman, SIMON.
some people have their dark sides, but then some people have their really, REALLY dark .. sides.
some people are called .. crack, for being right .. on.
right on the razor’s edge, the red right hand. aka .. crash smart.
some people ride the white death train ..
and don’t come back.
~NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 30th, 2013, 10:58am
the WALL STREET JOURNAL also likes .. ANTONY HEGARTY .. of ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS.
ANDY BETA mentions him in that recent DEVENDRA BANHART interview, writing . . .
re DEVENDRA: “In 2002, around the time his debut album was released, he moved to New York and became a figurehead in the ‘freak-folk’ movement, along with other outre musicians like harpist JOANNA NEWSOM and cabaret vocalist ANTONY HEGARTY.”
and a few weeks back – ANTONY got a huge shout-out on the WSJ FALL FASHION WEEK 2013 OVER-VIEW – at the top of the HIGHLIGHTS.
under ‘BEST SHOW’, and a most magical runway image, from PARIS, the caption reads:
“It seemed to be THOM BROWNE’s corpse-in-the-snowy-woods scene in New York — until GIVENCHY stole Paris fashion Week with a poetic collection that came with a passionate performance by New York band Antony and the Johnsons and a full orchestra. Was it the music and the scene ? Possibly. But Mr. TISCHI’S romantic clothing (and the torrid look shared by model NATALIA VODIANOVA on the runway and her LVMH scion boyfriend ANTOINE ARNAULT in the front row) cinched the deal.”
WALL STREET JOURNAL – ‘Fall Fashion, If You Dare’, March 7, 2013.
SIMON CERIGO’S VERY first music review for this site, back in MAY 2005 – was .. ANTONY and THE JOHNSONS’ second album, I AM A BIRD, of which Simon wrote: this CD . . . “is a wonder to behold.”
see: SIMON CERIGO REVIEWS .. ANTONY and THE JOHNSONS – I AM A BIRD.
ANTONY HEGARTY, of ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS – NYC. DEC 10, 2004.
PHOTO BY & COPYRIGHT OF: NANCY SMITH
I always thought it was funny, as in poignant/hard … that Antony recorded for a small indie record label called, SECRETLY CANADIAN, as I was .. secretly Canadian, for real !!
until my kids were able to sponsor me just recently.
I got here in the early 80s, when there were few issues, and then the immigration laws, just got harder and harder. esp for artists.
ANTONY would often pop up at downtown art openings back in the early 2000’s. so would DEVENDRA. in fact it was a banner few years for artists and musicians .. to mix and match. usually it was the (folk) musicians who were equally talented artists, and who were showing their art in small indie venues in the Lower East Side. and if not the musicians themselves, it was their small circle of friends, the people who did the unique art work for their highly individual CDs.
one big hub/small storefront space .. for this kind of activity was the long gone AFF / ART FIEND FOUNDATION run by a moveable collective headed by LEIF RITCHEY and TOOYA. located at 123 Ludlow St, just north of Delancey – it was to give rise to the fast-shooting-star emergence .. of the now famous, Paris-based sister artist/musicians .. CocoRosie. if you ever heard the soundtrack to THE FIFTH ELEMENT … well this the real deal.
(in a nutshell.)
in fact, the photo of ANTONY, above .. was taken at an opening of drawings by MATTEAH BAIM and LEIF RITCHEY, at AFF. it was very organic. very revelatory, and very grounded, all at the same time.
‘sound fragments’ .. at the opening were provided by RED BONE SLIM and HONEY CHILE.
RED BONE SLIM being .. BIANCA ‘COCO’ of CocoRosie.
this was the slim paper invite to the show, it measures 4-1/2 x 4 in:
GREEN . New, works, drawings & Sculptures
Matteah Baim & Leif Ritchey
Friday, December 10 / 7-10 pm
ART FIEND FOUNDATION
123 LUDLOW STREET
212.420.1033
Sound Fragments by Red Bone Slim & Honey Chile
that’s . . December 2004.
and yes . . that’s a phone no. (!!) landline, too – on the card. just even a few short years ago, ok .. 8 !! there were .. NO, NONE !! – gallery ‘websites’ !!
card courtesy: ARCHIVAL COLLECTION NANCY SMITH, NYC.
see: ANTONY and THE JOHNSONS – OFFICIAL WEBSITE
WATCH/LISTEN: ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS – ‘Cut The World’ . . . with WILLEM DAFOE, MARINA ABRAMOVIC & CARICE VAN HOUTEN
~ANTONY |
Posted in Indie Music Reviews, The Bomb | By Nancy Smith | March 19th, 2013, 9:30am
