New York Magazine - A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers sat down in a Brooklyn coffee shop with Rebecca Milzoff and discussed music, marriage and life in New York.
The New York Times - Matt Weiland discusses Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which just turned fifty.
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Newman says he immediately felt more at home here than he ever did in Vancouver. He’s particularly excited about joining the local music scene—much more so, it seems, than he was about belonging to the Great Canadian Band Invasion. Though he calls groups like Arcade Fire a source of “patriotic pride,” he looks forward to hanging out more with the Hold Steady, whom he calls “lovable, well-read, thirtysomething semi-alcoholics.”Bright Stupid Confetti - Chris posted the art of Chris Ryniak, Anne Austin Pearce and Christian Northeast, who painted Flying Fortress Boy.
The New York Times - Matt Weiland discusses Jack Kerouac's On the Road, which just turned fifty.
Above all, “On the Road” matters for its music: its plaintive, restless hum. In it, Kerouac perfected a melancholy optimism and a yearning for solace a thousand times richer and subtler than the mournful sap that drips down from so many contemporary American films and novels. It’s the lovely ache in the writing of Sherwood Anderson and Arthur Miller, in the cracked voices of Jeff Tweedy and Paul Westerberg. This is the great, lasting appeal of “On the Road,” the reason it will continue to matter to readers for another half-century and more. It’s the reason I’m glad I’ve got another copy, its pages already creased and its spine broken — and it’s the reason I won’t be giving this one away.Hero Hill - Brian interviews Orenda Fink from Art in Manila.
HH:: What inspires you to write music?Gogol Bordello played All Songs Considered and the concert is available via their podcast.
OF:: Writing music is cathartic for me. Other than that, I don't know. It is just something I have to do. I have been saying for years that I am going to stop, but I never can. I had a long talk with my friend, Shannon Wright, about this subject. I guess we likened it to an ex-lover that you can't stop going back to.
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