The Cuba Prostitution Documentary.
(Source: notyouraveragewhiteboy)
Patti Smith, New York City 1976. Photo Lynn Goldsmith.“Patti liked people to think she was androgynous. She liked them to think she was bisexual. She liked them to think she did drugs. She was one of the straightest people I knew. She’d make sure her boyfriend’s laundry was done before she did a show. All she ever really wanted was a guy who she believed was an angel, then she’d support him with every ounce of energy she had.”
- Lynn Goldsmith
Why Kathleen Hanna is an institution in Rock.
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60 playsThe Black Belles Debut Record
http://soundcloud.com/consequenceofsound/sets/the-black-belles-the-black/s-CiuIQ
Its here. Above is a link to listen to the girls new record on soundcloud.
It’s a comprehensive album. Starting with “Leave you with a letter” which is a sing-songy type of affair and opens the road into the album, which itself is a queer affair if ever I’ve heard one.
The guitars are simultaneously muddy, dirty, sludgy and as if they are being played in an abandoned funhouse. At night. Underwater. The vocals are warbled, wrangled, hysterical, growled and sometimes sung. The production goes from big and clear to cloudy and scruffy accordingly. Surf, goth, rockabilly, as hard as QOTSA.
The songs are listenable, more as a whole album than individually ( I think that is the desired effect for a band like this) but have a fire in the belly and are rebellious yet keep something of the lady about them.
The Black Belles have expanded in every area on their sound from when we first heard of them with “Lies” a couple of years ago. Solo’s are stronger, drumming is bolder and the overall sound is more collected and.. Third Man. “Pushing Up Daisies” could be an extra track on the Dead Weather’s “Sea of Cowards”.
The Black Belles does have the Jack White fingerprint, but these girls came with their own style and they have definitely maintained it and the only thing that Jack has done is written over their pencil outlines in big black marker. (It’s everything else he did outside the music that has me scratching my head) A really good rock album.
http://soundcloud.com/consequenceofsound/sets/the-black-belles-the-black/s-CiuIQ
The Black Belles - The Black Belles 7/10
Stand out tracks: Leave You With a Letter, The Tease, Pushing Up Daisies
We Adore Her, Old Laura
iamkatiemcloughlinandyouarenot:
So I spent last night sat at the front of the Anglican Cathedral singing along to Laura Marling. It was unbelieveable.
I also went to see her on Wednesday 26th Central Hall, LDN. She was wearing this same top with a long skirt. Previous poster is correct - it was unbelievable, and you do really have to be there to appreciate just how special she sounds. (If you’re like me and you trawl through the youtube looking to feign the live-Laura experience, it’s good, but nowhere near as mindblowing as the band sounds in real.)
I have to admit, me, hardnut Londoner though I am, had the dam burst on me and was in tears after 5mins and full floods by the end. Partly because of how far she’s come and the way she really tried to sing her heart out like I’ve never seen her do before, partly because she seemed so small and nervous and sad somewhere in her soul that night, and mostly because her music moves me simply to the core, and to hear it surround-sound-full-band-church-backdrop was too much for my levees to take.
Stand out tracks: Ghosts, Night Terror, Night after Night, The Beast
I know a few people have reblogged this before, but am I the only one that thinks that this guy is sexier with the tatts?
And also, why has he only tattooed as far as his forehead and not the whole skull? Must be some kind of a religious thing..
