Congrats Prince! Purple Rain has topped Vanity Fair’s list of the 50 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time. While the full list won’t be revealed until next month, here’s a preview of what their Top 10 looks like:
1. Purple Rain
2. A Hard Day’s Night
3. The Harder They Come
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Graduate
6. Superfly
7. Trainspotting
8. Saturday Night Fever
9. American Graffiti
10. The Big Chill
It’s a pretty solid Top 10, but what do you think they overlooked? Don’t answer Garden State unless you’re Zach Braff…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an exhibition entitled “Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart,” which pairs the artwork of Paul Klee with the drawings and music of freak folkster Devendra Banhart. Exploring the relationship between music and visual art, the exhibit features more than a dozen of Klee’s works on paper along with thirteen of Banhart’s drawings he created alongside his latest album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
“Music was a consistent source of inspiration for Klee (1879–1940),…[who] came from a family of musicians and, prior to turning his attention to painting, drawing, and printmaking, was an accomplished violinist who often performed in concerts. [Banhart's] relationship to music, like Klee’s, is interdependent on his visual art practice: “I sing what I can’t draw and draw what I can’t sing,” he explains.”
Though Klee and Banhart were born a century apart, looking at Klee’s “Angelus Novus” (above image on left) and Banhart’s piece (above right) one gets the sense that the two really are kindred spirits.
Now that CMJ has ended, there’s all kinds of sweet residue from the festival surfacing across the internets. For example, check out this ace live set that The Hold Steady played for KEXP’s podcast. Not only is it a great performance, leadsinger Craig Finn ends the show by making the exciting announcement that a new album is coming in the spring or summer of 2008. Alright!!!
Described by Hypeful friend Chris as “twee as f#ck,” the feedback on Tullycraft’s “If You Take Away the Make-Up (Then The Vampires They Will Die)” was extremely positive. So, I anticipate Hypeful readers will dig the new Tullycraft video for “Georgette Plays A Goth.” It’s a tasty track and the video is, you guessed it - “twee as f#ck.” Enjoy and thanks to YANP for the heads up!
VIDEO:
Just in time for Halloween, Spinner counts down the 20 craziest costumed acts who recognize that sometimes what you wear is just as important as how you sound.
Better luck on making the list next year, chain mail-clad Ryan Adams…although your metal-inspired garb is likely to haunt our dreams well through Halloween.
In between performing at ACL and penning tunes for hit TV medical dramas, Ian Ball of Gomez managed to find some time in his schedule to pen a solo album - Who Goes There
MP3s:
Ian Ball - “Elephant Pharmacy”
Ian Ball - “I Knew You Were Trouble”
While I’m very curious about the Todd Haynes-directed Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There hitting theaters in November, I’m just as interested in the 2-disc soundtrack
MP3s:
Jeff Tweedy - “Simple Twist of Fate”
Sufjan Stevens - “Ring Them Bells”
STREAM:
Calexico & Jim James - “Goin’ to Acapulco”
Cat Power - “Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again”
Kate Nash recently dropped by the Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge and treated listeners with a cover of Arctic Monkeys’ “Fluorescent Adolescent.” It’s always nice to hear that Tom Jones ain’t the only one covering the A-Monks.
MP3:
Kate Nash - “Fluorescent Adolescent” (Arctic Monkeys Cover - Live Lounge)
In preparing for his classical debut at the 25th Next Wave Festival, Sufjan Stevens opened up to NY Magazine about his commissioned project The BQE — a symphonic and cinematic exploration of one of New York’s least celebrated monuments: the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. Although Soof avoids getting too personal, the article provides some more insight into The BQE piece and the daunting tasks he faces bringing it together for the approaching sold-out performances. Perhaps most interesting are his thoughts on rock and roll, telling the mag:
“Rock and roll is dead. Rock and roll is a museum piece. It has no viability anymore. There are great rock bands today—I love the White Stripes, I love the Raconteurs. But it’s a museum piece. You’re watching the History Channel when you go to these clubs. They’re just reenacting an old sentiment. They’re channeling the ghosts of that era—the Who, punk rock, the Sex Pistols, whatever. It’s been done. The rebellion’s over.”
Hopefully Soof was joking a bit. After hearing “In The Words Of The Governor” earlier this year, I don’t think I was alone in wanting to hear a little more of Soof rocking out.
Following the release of the “Flux” studio recording earlier this week, NME has gotten its hands on the accompanying music video for Bloc Party’s new single. Giant robots and monsters smashing buildings are awesome. Unfortunately, the only available format for the video is Windows Media - which is not awesome. Thanks to Stereogum for the heads up!
VIDEO:
Bloc Party - “Flux”
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