Posted on 13 October 2009
When we posted the video for Fever Ray’s “Seven,” I included a stream of her (and Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid’s) take on Vashti Bunyan’s “Here Before.” As mentioned then, it shows up on a two-song tour 7″ along with a cover of Nick Cave’s “Stranger Than Kindness.” (Maybe you picked a copy up when she stopped by Webster Hall?) As far as the lineage, “Stranger”’s from Cave & The Bad Seed’s 1986 fourth album Your Funeral… My Trial. Cave’s then girlfriend/muse/collaborator/etc Anita Lane wrote the lyrics. Bad Seed/Einstürzende Neubautener Blixa Bargeld wrote the music and played guitar on the original. Dark period, dark stuff. This is what Karin Dreijer does with it.
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Posted on 13 October 2009
Canada’s known for indie rock, so makes sense you’ll find plenty of homegrown talent (BSS, Stars) and international musicians (Wilco, Iron & Wine, Joan As Policewoman) near the slopes at Vancouver’s Winter Olympics. More names at CoS.
Posted on 13 October 2009
“Green Eyed Love” is the downbeat album-closer from Michigan soul singer Mayer Hawthorne’s Stones Throw debut LP, A Strange Arrangement. On first blush its lyrics seem to suggest he’s got a thing with a tempestuous, ill-advised green-eyed girlfriend. Or with weed. The twist is that Mayer’s green comes not via girls or herb, but through slotted spoons and sugarcubes. A fix of absinthe later, Hawthorne’s watching lips grow out of bathroom tiles and girls get multiplied and colorized; not your average look for soul-rooted music, coming from a guy who’s not your average look for a soul-rooted artist.
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