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Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars Reviewed: An audacious, explosive rock opera

1 week ago | shorturl.at | David Fricke

Will Toledo swaps lo-fi indie rock for concept LP ambition. Car Seat Headrest★★★★MATADORIt’s an idea as old as Johnny B. Goode: rock’n’roll kids hitting the road like they’re off to join the circus. Except in The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man) – a mini-epic peak in this audacious, explosive rock opera by the US indie combo Car Seat Headrest – the band is an actual bunch of “clown troubadours” (per the libretto) touring a dead-end land.
Car Seat Headrest – The Scholars Reviewed: An audacious, explosive rock opera

1 week ago | mojo4music.com | David Fricke

Will Toledo swaps lo-fi indie rock for concept LP ambition. Car Seat Headrest★★★★MATADORIt’s an idea as old as Johnny B. Goode: rock’n’roll kids hitting the road like they’re off to join the circus. Except in The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man) – a mini-epic peak in this audacious, explosive rock opera by the US indie combo Car Seat Headrest – the band is an actual bunch of “clown troubadours” (per the libretto) touring a dead-end land.
Mein Leben in 10 Songs

3 weeks ago | msn.com | David Fricke

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Elvis Costello: Mein Leben in 10 Songs

3 weeks ago | rollingstone.de | David Fricke

„Als ich 24 war, wurde ich gebeten, eine Autobiografie zu schreiben“, sagt Elvis Costello. Er sagt es an dem Tag, an dem er sein erstes gebundenes Exemplar seiner aufschlussreichen, eindrucksvoll gestalteten und höchst unterhaltsamen neuen Memoiren, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, erhielt. „Ich sagte: ‘Könnte ich nicht einfach mein Leben leben?’“Damals fegte Elvis Costello (geboren als Declan MacManus), der Sohn eines Big-Band-Sängers, wie ein bebrillter Tornado durch den Rock ’n‘ Roll.
Graham Nash: “I miss David terribly…”

2 months ago | mojo4music.com | David Fricke

Graham Nash reveals how he and David Crosby were on the verge of reconciliation just before the latter’s death, and reflects on the volatile history of CSNY.
Television’s Unreleased Fourth Album Unveiled!

2 months ago | mojo4music.com | David Fricke

MOJO is granted an exclusive listen to new wave maestros Television’s never-before-heard final LP. With 1977’s Marquee Moon, New York enigmas Television delivered one of the greatest debut albums of all time: a revolutionary, intricate, and questing fusion of punk, jazz and guitarist/vocalist Tom Verlaine’s Beat poet lyricism.
Television’s Unreleased Fourth Album Unveiled!

2 months ago | shorturl.at | David Fricke

MOJO is granted an exclusive listen to new wave maestros Television’s never-before-heard final LP. With 1977’s Marquee Moon, New York enigmas Television delivered one of the greatest debut albums of all time: a revolutionary, intricate, and questing fusion of punk, jazz and guitarist/vocalist Tom Verlaine’s Beat poet lyricism.
A Ghost Is Born 20th Anniversary Edition

Feb 4, 2025 | mojo4music.com | David Fricke

Wilco’s post-Yankee triumph celebrates its 20th anniversary with 9-CD and 2-LP box set variations. Wilco★★★★NONESUCHWILCO WERE two months from the release and US Top 20 debut of their ambitious, embattled fourth album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, when at the end of a February 2002 interview, singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy played a CD of new music for MOJO: four songs and four improvisations recorded by Wilco the previous week at home in Chicago.
Hölle, Marsch, Metal: Wie die Amerikaner Rammstein sehen

Jan 21, 2025 | rollingstone.de | David Fricke

Hölle, Marsch, Metal: Wie die Amerikaner Rammstein sehenROLLING-STONE-Archiv: Ein Artikel aus dem Jahr 2012Am einem Abend im Februar 1984 – genaugenommen war‘s schon der frühe Morgen – stand ich gefährlich nah vor der Bühne der „Danceteria“, dem längst geschlossenen New Yorker Club, wie hypnotisiert von der rohen mechanischen Gewalt der Einstürzenden Neubauten. Es war der erste Auftritt der Berliner Band in den USA.
Jimmy Page: The Rolling Stone Interview

Dec 6, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Fricke

Jimmy Page attends a press conference to announce Led Zeppelin's new live DVD Celebration day at 8 Northumberland Avenue on September 21, 2012 in London, England. - Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty ImagesJIMMY PAGE STANDS, CALM AND smiling, on the pavement outside his management office in London. The Led Zeppelin guitarist is taking a fresh-air break from the most extensive interview he has ever given to ROLLING STONE — more than eight hours over two days.