Rainy Day Music: Mazzy Star Edition

All these years, I thought Mazzy Star wrote "Five-String Serenade" and that the White Stripes uncharacteristically covered Mazzy Star. Then, several months ago, upon having discovered 60s garage rock band Love thanks to the White Stripes, I discovered that Love front-person Arthur Lee actually wrote "Five-String Serenade." Suddenly, the White Stripes' choice of cover didn't seem so uncharacteristic. I still like Mazzy Star's sleepy, sombre version the most though.

Grimes Quote

"In medieval Christian thought, it was assumed that the better you were as a singer, the purer your heart was. I don't necessarily think that's true, but Mariah Carey has the voice of someone who has never done evil."

Hehe.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Need To Cover This Santigold Song

Santigold here sounds so similar to Karen O. I can just imagine how Nick Zinner might carve up "You'll Find A Way"'s relatively well-mannered riff too. I can dream.

David Bowie Discusses the Pixies

"I found it just about the most compelling music outside of Sonic Youth in the entire 80s."

Rainy-Day Music: Hayden Edition

Excuse the fan-made video:

Robert Crumb Quote

"When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times when I actually have a kind of a love for humanity. You hear the best part of the soul of the common people, you know - their ... their way of expressing their connection to eternity or whatever you want to call it. Modern music doesn't have that calamitous loss that people can't express themselves that way anymore, you know?"

Crumb then throws on a blues record, sits back and just listens.

I wish I could say that scene from Terry Zwigoff's 1994 documentary Crumb describes me to a tee, but I'm not as romantically misanthropic as Mr. Crumb. Crumb made me pick up my sketchbook for the first time since summer in hopes of being as creatively prolific as him some day. I was pretty staggered by how much he has produced, especially considering how obsessively detailed a lot of his work is. I, unfortunately, slave away yet produce little. Ah, well. Oh, hey: this is my first visual art post. My blog description has always said this blog concerns music as well as the visual arts. Me having taken this long to finally blog about art, however inspired by music as this post has been, says something about my current feelings towards the visual arts. But that's another post.

Skip to 3:57 to watch the scene this post concerns:

Full Album-Stream: Grimes - Visions (Arbutus/4AD, 2012)

I'm not usually into danceable electronic pop, but Montreal-via-Vancouver's Grimes (A.K.A. Claire Boucher)'s latest album Visions is pretty fucking great.

I heard about her late last night and found out even later that she's playing an early show at Fortune Sound Club tomorrow. Oh, why do I have to work until 9:30? Tickets are sold out anyway, but for $13, it'll probably be worth the $2.50 bus-trip to try buying a ticket at the door.