• Over at eMusic, Michaelangelo Matos talks to Sharon Jones about the Oscars, Rikers Island, and soul music through the decades — “I know we’re going to gradually move up, ‘cause different people have different ideas. I know when I write something it’s going to be [hums hyperactive bass pattern], and that’s more of an ’80s feeling. I have no problem with it. I even tell people, I hope Daptone don’t go past the early ’80s. That’s as far as we go.”
• Los Angeles indie pop band Best Coast played Knitting Factory yesterday. Jon Caramanica reviewed the show for the Times — “Best Coast songs are narcotically hazy, with surf-rock churn, garage-rock distortion, and a sense of purpose derived from early-1990s alternative-rock acts like the Breeders.” And Ron Harvilla in the Voice’s Sound of the City blog: “when the rambling, wayward-voiced lo-fi-ness of it all gets to you (this is basically like SST bubblegum or something), there’s the spectacle of the singer herself, cheerfully fielding audience questions…”
• Pitchfork posted a pretty good video of the Dum Dum Girls playing “Catholicked” at South by Southwest.
• Aaaand a guide to girl-band movie clichés, by Marisa Meltzer, on Slate: “Without the support of a nuclear family, girls must turn to their record players for solidarity. This plot device is featured more heavily in movies about girl bands because the underlying message is that a normal teen with a solid home life wouldn’t need to turn to the decidedly nongirly hobby of music for salvation.”

Comments

1. ↩ Michele Y Washington / 13 April 2010

   I always enjoy reading all of your music posting, I’m eager to hear Sharon’s new album I Learned the Hard Way. Thanks for sharing M