Asheville. Wow. I think I need to buy this guitar…. before someone does who takes it a little too seriously.
That circuit board sitting on the desk is Zia’s keyboard. Really. We’re at Moog HQ and they’re tricking out its little guts for her.
This band Hopewell is amazing. Giant two-drummer thing going on with art school vaguely jonestowny other thing. They’re very Janes Addiction-y too. Would make the most badass movie soundtrack ever.
COURTNEY TAYLOR-TAYLOR
Who would’ve known that a lot of my favorite architecture is in Baltimore.
Rented a car and drove around today. This city really has something.
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Philly by tata. I didn’t notice this cool building last time I came out of the train station here. I think I really like it.
Had a hellaciously fun gig at Webster Hall NYC last night and the little club in Brooklyn was great the night before. I think we’re kinda on fire right now (knock on my wooden head)
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Just got into NYC. Crap weather, of course.
Boston show last night was superfun. I haven’t been drinking or smoking either so that I can have the stamina to sing my little heart out on this rigorous schedule. Got the night off here so with 12 hrs of sleep the vocal chords should be tip-top for tomorrow.
Canadian and Canadien gigs were awesome as well. I guess I should probably just count on not being party tourguy from here on out.
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PETER HOLMSTROM
From the popular SPIN Magazine:
Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Anya Marina, who turned heads with her 2009 album, Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II, and landed in SPIN’s Breaking Out section, is back November 15 with a new EP called Spirit School. Like Seduction, it boasts collabos with some of her rockin’ pals, including Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor — hear their song “Whatsit” below!
GOTHMAN
TheRFW.com is giving a way tickets to The Dandy Warhols North American tour. To enter, replace your Facebook photo with any Dandy Warhols album cover, sign up at therfw.com/contests and make a wall post on facebook.com/TheRFW on the day of the show in your city. TheRFW.com will select a random winner to go to that night’s performance by The Dandy Warhols.
CITIES IN EFFECT
11/3 – Boston
11/6 – New York
11/10 – Asheville
11/11 – Atlanta
11/14 – Austin
12/03 – Seattle
12/10 – Los Angeles
12/11 – San Francisco
GOTHMAN
Here is something I found today that I liked.
CLIPPED …More than anything, their 2 hour set brought about a sense of rich perspective on the band’s best works, which are definitely something to be proud of. “Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth” and “We Used to Be Friends” appeared quite early on and garnered a great camaraderie amongst Dandies fans. “I Love You” was ripe with a keener sense of lust and Taylor sang “Holiday” in its most stripped down form by himself after excusing the band and quipping that they all needed to take a break and use the restroom. “Boys Better,” “Bohemian Like You,” and “Get Off” came later and felt epically catchy. Another highlight, “Good Morning” provided such a rich melancholy that one couldn’t help but close her/his eyes just to feel the pleasurable waves pass through the thick air hovering about….
ZIA MCCABE
Well now if you’re a writer who aspires to be clever I can tell you firsthand that “The Gunseller” will most likely make you want to quit. It did in my case.
This guy’s control over his effusive cleverness is uncommon to say the least. I laugh out loud around twice a page. And I don’t mean the nauseating little abbreviation that people put next to the equally nauseating sideways smiley face when they’ve texted you something that they feel is inappropriate, completely not-funny or both. I actually mean that I actually laugh out loud.
Incidentally, the plot just happens to rock as hard as a Ludlum novel (which of course he wryly alludes to early on) and not once do you feel like you’re reading a “first novel”. If you’ve read “Don’t Point That Thing at Me” and dug it, this is quite similar and I feel that it’s just as good.
“Soon I Will Be Invincible” has a great first couple pages but quickly becomes quite the opposite. This book makes me want to write the book that the cover makes me wish that he wrote. The story is basically a comic book story very similar to X-Men but told from the point of view of one of the supervillains and includes his entire life story. This isn’t a novel idea in the world of graphic novels but it apparently is novel in the world of novel novels.
The guy is a good writer but I can’t help thinking that his editor could or should have made this book a more consistently enjoyable experience for me but just working a little bit harder. I struggled through some Mojave Desert dryness and gave up for a while. I’ll letcha know if it gets any better when I try it again.
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