2008: Deerhuner - Nothing Ever Happened

one of the greatest songs i've ever heard live. see:

1963: The Ronettes - I Wonder

Poets and Music

"Rock'n'roll is characterised by driving and simple but not necessarily easy rhythms, and the words hover between the rhythms," says Christopher Ricks, Oxford University's professor of poetry, who has written about Bob Dylan's importance as a poet. "The question is, what do these wonderful simplicities of rhythm do to the words? Just because in the art of song, words are joined by music and melody, that doesn't mean they are less important. It's a bit like saying oxygen isn't as important in water because it's a compound."

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"Still, he believes human beings have an inherent need for poetry. He quotes William Carlos Williams' poem Asphodel, That Greeny Flower: "It is difficult to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there." He shrugs. "I think that's why rap is popular. There's not a rock writer as good as Ghostface [Killah]. He's just shocking. And David LaDude. Oh boy." And even so, Darnielle believes, rap is past its lyrical peak."

Read More: http://alterdudes.blogspot.com/2006/11/poets-and-music.html

2011: Craft Spells - After the Moment

2011: Beach Fossils - Distance

BEACH FOSSILS
CRAFT SPELLS
INTENSIVE CARE
19 April, 2011
La Sala Rossa
4848 St Laurent
$12.00 advance
$14.00 door

any montrealers hitting up that show tomorrow, feel free to look for/say hi to the awkward brown girl standing by herself.

i hear she's nice.

2011: Bill Callahan - Drover