Posts Tagged ‘writes’

PRINCE WRITES MINNESOTA VIKINGS FIGHT SONG, “PURPLE AND GOLD”, HEAR IT NOW

Friday, January 22, 2010 17:25

Oh, Prince. How do you continue to be so weird and awesome? MTV reports (via Fox's Twin Cities affiliate) that Prince has recorded a fight song for the Minnesota Vikings, who are set to go up against the New Orleans Saints in the ...

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ARCADE FIRE’S RéGINE CHASSAGNE WRITES NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL ABOUT HAITI CRISIS

Monday, January 18, 2010 14:00

Photo by Will Marsh Régine Chassagne, co-leader of Arcade Fire, has written a powerful editorial for the British paper The Observer, reflecting on her relationship with Haiti and calling for the world to aid the country in this ...

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SMASHING PUMPKINS SETTLE LAWSUITS, BILLY CORGAN WRITES BOOKS

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 19:20

UPDATE: Billy Corgan has Tweeted, "Unless God signed the papers for me, I don't remember settling any lawsuits. But God bless whoever thinks I have." Last year, the Smashing Pumpkins sued Virgin Records, twice. First, they sued their old label ...

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FIERY FURNACES’ MATT FRIEDBERGER WRITES “VIRTUAL RESPONSE” TO BECK SONG

Thursday, November 19, 2009 21:35

So there's this weird and nonsensical semi-feud going down on the internet because the Fiery Furnaces' Matthew Friedberger insulted Radiohead and Beck. (For the whole story so far, click on this link.) It started off marginally amusing, and then ...

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BECK WRITES SONG ABOUT HARRY PARTCH

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 20:10

Front page photo by Autumn de Wilde Harry Patch was the last surviving British World War I veteran. Radiohead wrote a song about him earlier this year. Harry Partch was an experimental music composer who worked with microtonal scales. ...

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BJöRK WRITES NEW SONG FOR FREAKY FINNISH CHILDREN’S MOVIE

Monday, November 16, 2009 21:10

Photo by Inez & Vinoodh Matin/ILC Moomins are vaguely hippopotamus-looking creatures invented by Finnish author/illustrator Tove Jansson. Björk likes Moomins. She likes them so much that she wrote a song about them. "The Comet Song" was written by Björk with author and frequent collaborator ...

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NICK CAVE WRITES ANOTHER SCREENPLAY FOR JOHN HILLCOAT

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 19:00

Nick Cave has never been shy about pursuing his literary ambitions, though it hasn't always been a great look for him (see The Death of Bunny Munro, his new novel). But when he's working with good collaborators, Cave can ...

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HOLD STEADY’S NICOLAY WRITES A BOOK

Thursday, October 1, 2009 18:20

Back in 2006, I interviewed Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn, and he dropped a few hints about a novel that he was working on. Nearly three years later, there's no evidence that Finn has penned anything other than awesomely dense Hold Steady lyrics. But ...

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SONIC YOUTH’S THURSTON MOORE WRITES TEXT FOR PHOTO BOOK ABOUT GRUNGE

Friday, September 18, 2009 17:20

In a couple of years in the early 90s, grunge went from an exciting regional indie-punk scene to a word that you never, ever wanted to hear again. As the guy who helped get Nirvana signed to Geffen, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore played a small but pivotal role in that ...

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