Tag Archives: Glasvegas

Monday News Mash-Up

Author, poet, musician Jim Carroll died on Friday at age 60. As chronicled in his autobiography The Basketball Diaries, Carroll’s outlaw lifestyle of poetry and drugs (and of course basketball) brought him into circles that included Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe and other counter-culture icons of the 70’s. In fact, it was Smith who [...]

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Thursday News Threads 9/10

London hip-hop artist Speech Debelle was just announced the winner of the Mercury Music Prize, beating out strong contenders Bat For Lashes, Kasabian, La Roux, Friendly Fires, Florence and the Machine, and Lisa Hannigan. Her album Speech Therapy (Big Dada) won for best album of the past year by a U.K. or Irish artist. Be [...]

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Glasvegas @ KEXP and Chop Suey 1/10

photos by Laura Totten (in-studio) and Dan Muller (concert)
review by Jason Kinnard
Just when you think you know what a band is going to sound like live or how they’ll act when you meet them up close, they can surprise you. Glasvegas is one of those bands. Yes, they embrace the glitz and grandeur of their [...]

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