Bob Dylan in America, a new book by the historian Sean Wilentz, will be published in September. The following excerpt is Chapter 2 of the book.
Once I went to a movie
At midnight, 1940, Mice
And Men, the name of it,
The Red Block Boxcars
Rolling by (on the Screen)
Yessir
life
finally
gets
tired
of
living— Read More
Elke laatste donderdag van de maand staat het gezellige zaaltje van dB’s in het teken van Club 3VOOR12/Utrecht. Elke maand zullen daar drie veelbelovende, veelal Utrechtse acts optreden. 3VOOR12/Utrecht is niet alleen gastheer, maar zal de optredens ook opnemen en online zetten. De toegang is gratis, maar reserveren is noodzakelijk Read More
I came across a band called Oingo Boingo. Yeah, it’s really their name. I heard their pure 80s sound in a song about how much the singer likes little girls. Pretty out there. The 80s produced some crazy stuff, i know. The amazing discovery was when i found out i already knew, and use to love one of their songs as a kid. A lot of songs you know from the films you might have seen as a kid, but never knew it was actually a band making the music. I remember this track from a flick called ‘Weird Science’. It was about these nerdy kids that manage to create a woman through their weird science. Hilariously bad. And so, the title track turned out to be by Oingo Boingo. What a name! Read More
First off, let’s thank everyone who made it to Trouw last wednesday, and made it possible. We had a wonderful time, and that’s thanks to you. You can watch a VIDEO REPORT of the evening on face culture. And check out some pictures at the end of this post. You can get the cd that was presented: “Sixpack, What’s in a song” on iTunes. Or just get the two songs we recorded on the music section of this site, or listen on Myspace. You can even read an article in FRET Magezine about the record. Read More
