Catching up after a couple of light days... Looks like Trent Reznor's been busy. Maybe it's a Halloween thing. Lots of Wilco/Tweedy stuff too...
NIN, QOTSA Bring Voodoo Back To OrleansThe Money Shot: But in mid-October, after a call from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and former N.O. resident Trent Reznor, promoters announced that for one day only — Saturday, October 29 — Voodoo would return home, with another show taking place in Memphis on Sunday.
NIN Digs the PartridgesThe Money Shot - My dad told me that I was always putting on Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced?, but I don't really remember that. I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's greatest hits. I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.
Wilco Getting Stupid for 2006The Money Shot: Two of the tunes from this first batch of material, "I'm Talking to Myself About You" and the tentatively titled "On and On and On and On," have been receiving stage time during recent shows. Tweedy says the former is "about as straightforward and as dumb as anything I've ever written, but musically it's really exciting and fun to play."
Gimme a little Tweedy on the Side, pleaseThe Money Shot: Meanwhile, Tweedy is planning to regroup at some point in the near future with the Jayhawks' Gary Louris and Soul Asylum's Dan Murphy for a new album under the moniker Golden Smog. The group's last effort was 1998's "Weird Tales."
But wait... there's more Wilco: Live DVD CancelledThe Money Shot: First Kicking Television was pushed back to November 15. Then the DVD was shit-canned. Tweedy explained the DVD's fate in the Reader, stating, "Some of the reasons were technical, some of it had to do with the way it was shot. The footage ended up being really claustrophobic. Basically, it gets down to my feeling that the audience should be a part of any live document. You should get a sense of the audience, a sense of the time and place. And the footage didn't do that."
Snow Patrol's New CDThe Money Shot: "The whole thing is bigger and bolder except the quiet ones which are as fragile as sugar paper."
The Constantines Follow Their HeartsThe Money Shot: "But we get this thing all the time that the record is not as intense as the live show. And I don't know if that's really our goal, 'cause listening to a record is a very different thing than going to see a band play. And it's interesting to play to the strengths of those forms. You can obviously translate a lot more subtlety on a record than you can playing in a bar, and I think we tried to do some of that."
Echo & The Bunnymen Don't Know What They're Singing About The Money Shot: "I don't know what a lot of the songs are completely about and it's that mystery, the intrigue of it, that I like. Some of the phrasing and things, the combination of words that just sort of put a little image in your head — that's what I like about Mac's lyrics more than anything. There's one of the songs we're doing, 'Scissors In The Sand' and one of the lyrics says 'There's something on the roof.' I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky. 'Scissors In The Sand' — what's that all about? God knows, but it's got a dangerous kind of image to it somehow."
They play Ben Lee on the radio...The Money Shot: "It's unbelievable," he says. "It's just been an incredible journey I've gone through this year. I've been recording for so many years and it's great to get some recognition. It's like the cherry on top."
Moby = Punk?The Money Shot: "Over the last year I've written lots and lots of punk rock songs, and now I'm going to record them with [drummer] Scott [Frassetto]."
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