Music – My Bloody Valentine, Reunited, Rediscovers the Love – Review – NYTimes.com
Mr. Shields, 45, who leads My Bloody Valentine, is soft-spoken and shy, and he rarely gives interviews. But he spent much of the festival amid the audience, eager to hear the music he had booked. Occasionally he was recognized by respectful fans. In a brief conversation a few hours before his band’s set, sitting on the hotel lawn, where he could smoke, he spoke about the re-emergence of My Bloody Valentine.
Is Don Siegelman in prison because he’s a criminal or because he belonged to the wrong political party in Alabama? Siegelman is the former governor of Alabama, and he was the most successful Democrat in that Republican state. But while he was governor, the U.S. Justice Department launched multiple investigations that went on year after year until, finally, a jury convicted Siegelman of bribery.
The Enveloping Mist, originally uploaded by that.turtle.
Old-school Bluegrass godfather Dr. Ralph Stanley cuts radio ad for Barack Obama – Boing Boing
The Barack Obama endorsement ad here [direct mp3 link, and alternate link] featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley is currently running on radio stations in Southwest Virginia.
How great is this ad. Thanks to @xenijardin.
The mix can be downloaded here.
Walk on By, originally uploaded by that.turtle.
The mix can be downloaded here.
Trip Inside This House: 10 Questions
I have the honor to present you… Barbara Manning!
Another must-read edition of “10 Questions,” this time with the wonderful Barbara Manning. Now Barbara, enough with this interview stuff, get with the recording of “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy” already, huh?