Eclectic City

01/09/2024

Elvis at Jim's Barber Shop in Memphis, 1956.

01/09/2024

Don't hold back, Noel.

01/09/2024

01/09/2024

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The Keswick Theatre in Glenside gave fans a chance to sit down and listen to their favorite Big Star songs performed by members of their other favorite bands.

01/09/2024

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Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star in 1993 📸⭐

01/09/2024

Fans who have queued for Oasis tickets are complaining about the website mistaking them for bots after waiting hours

01/09/2024

🔥 File Under Fire: Document, the band’s fifth studio album, was released on this day in 1987. Produced by Scott Litt, Document included R.E.M.’s first top ten single, “The One I Love,” and second single “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”🔥

01/09/2024

Pretty much true.

31/08/2024

At 16, I fell in love with the girl who'd become my high school sweetheart. She was a beautiful Asian girl from an affluent family. No matter how much her parents tried to keep us apart, we found ways around the curfews and threats. When I rediscovered Billy Joel's allbum 52nd Street in 1976, I sang this song when others weren't around. I've never had the vocal skills to properly sing this. But in 1976, I gave it a good try. ❤️

In 1978, Billy Joel released his album titled 52nd Street. Listen to Billy Joel perform 'Until the Night'.http://smarturl.it/BJ_BS52S_YT?IQid=ytd.bj.utnaList...

31/08/2024

When told by a critic his voice sounded like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smoke house for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car, Tom said, “flattery will get you nowhere with me.”

Photo: Clare O'Callahan

31/08/2024

Elizabeth Fraser turns 61 today.

Best known for her time as vocalist with Cocteau Twins, she has also performed in This Mortal Coil and with the likes of Massive Attack.

Her fellow Scottish singer Annie Lennox once said: "Liz Fraser of Cocteau Twins has a magical quality.

When I heard the Cocteaus, it made me stand still and stop what I was doing.

"I went off into the middle distance somewhere, and I felt like I wanted to cry. It just makes me want to cry when I hear it. It's very strange."

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘶 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘴/4𝘈𝘋/𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘛𝘶𝘣𝘦

31/08/2024

Massive Attack is setting a powerful example with their greenest concert ever 🌍. They’re leading the charge by using rechargeable batteries instead of diesel, planting 19,000 native oak trees, and offering an entirely vegetarian menu 🍃. Fans are encouraged to travel by train, bike, or walk 🚴‍♂️, and to bring reusable cups. What’s more, the band is publishing the research behind the event, creating a blueprint for others to follow 🌱. As frontman Robert Del Naja puts it, “We don’t need to talk about it—we need to act on it.”

27/08/2024

Shirley Manson turns 58 today.

As lead singer of Garbage, the Scottish musician has sold over 17 million albums.

In 2018, she told The Herald: “The youth culture that I emerged from was wild, literally wild, and we prided ourselves on that because we wanted to be the opposite from our parents. My years with Goodbye Mr Mackenzie were really debauched and rock ’n’ roll.

"By the time I joined Garbage I knew we wouldn't be the cutting-edge rock ’n’ roll rebels, my days of that had passed, but I knew that I was going to be settling into a different approach in terms of being subversive.

"I will always love rebellion until I'm in my grave. How bland youth culture has gotten; is it going to be down to the 50-year-olds to do something naughty?”

𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘉𝘰𝘺𝘥/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

27/08/2024

Brotherly love is in the air.

Liam and Noel Gallagher’s 1990s Britpop band will play dates in Britain and Ireland in 2025.

25/08/2024

--..-REM & Patti Smith---.Photo - Chris Bilheimer...

25/08/2024

The one and only Kim Deal 🖤🙌

25/08/2024

On this day in 1997, Radiohead released “Karma Police” - the second single from their third studio album “OK Computer”

“For a minute there I lost myself.”

25/08/2024

Walter Becker was my friend, my writing partner and my bandmate since we met as students at Bard College in 1967. We started writing nutty little tunes on an upright piano in a small sitting room in the lobby of Ward Manor, a mouldering old mansion on the Hudson River that the college used as a dorm.

We liked a lot of the same things: jazz (from the twenties through the mid-sixties), W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, science fiction, Nabokov, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Berger, and Robert Altman films come to mind. Also soul music and Chicago blues.

Walter had a very rough childhood - I’ll spare you the details. Luckily, he was smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter. He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny. Like a lot of kids from fractured families, he had the knack of creative mimicry, reading people’s hidden psychology and transforming what he saw into bubbly, incisive art. He used to write letters (never meant to be sent) in my wife Libby’s singular voice that made the three of us collapse with laughter.

His habits got the best of him by the end of the seventies, and we lost touch for a while. In the eighties, when I was putting together the NY Rock and Soul Review with Libby, we hooked up again, revived the Steely Dan concept and developed another terrific band.
I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can, both with the Steely Dan band. We’ll miss him forever.

Donald Fagen
September 3 2017

25/08/2024

David Bowie was 16 years-old when he stepped in as saxophonist and lead singer for The Kon-rads!

📸: South London (1963)

25/08/2024

REMASTERED IN HD!Official Music Video for Oliver's Army performed by Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Follow Elvis Costello Instagram: https://www.instagram...

25/08/2024

The Floating Heads of David