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Our friends at The Awl have debuted Ryan Adams’ video-game column, and it is a delight, looking back on the old-school console game Gorf while mulling over the possibility of Danzig and Whitesnake squaring off at an arcade. There’s also a video co-directed by Adams and his wife, noted Jandek enthusiast Amanda Adams (a.k.a. Mandy Moore). [The Awl] More »
Posts Tagged ‘Ryan Adams’
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10:30 AM on Fri Aug 21 2009 by Maura
Norah Jones has a new album coming out in November, and it’ll feature contributions from chameleonic musician/famous type Ryan Adams, Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff, and avant-garde guitarist Marc Ribot, as well as songs that she worked on with the co-writer of her breakout hit “Don’t Know Why,” Jesse Harris. (Am I the only person who thought of “Don’t Know Why” as more of a slightly more mannered indiepop song than anything “jazzy”? No? OK.) [Billboard] More »
Angelenos Will Have Someone Else Introducing The New Travis Single
8:53 AM on Tue Nov 11 2008 by Dan Gibson
Nic Harcourt, who may be the most influential radio DJ in America not named Ryan Seacrest, will step down from his post as music director and morning show host at Santa Monica’s KCRW on Nov. 30, so he can spend more time with his family and on other projects like his music-supervision gig for the CW’s remake of 90210.
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Ryan Adams Comes Clean
10:00 AM on Tue Oct 28 2008 by Maura
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I Wonder If He’d Like To Guest On Idolator Sometime Soon
5:30 AM on Thu Aug 21 2008 by Maura
Ryan Adams has posted 18 updates to his blog in the past hour! Eighteen! That’s, like, a whole day of posts around these parts! OK, so one of them is just a shot of him reading an X-Men, but still! Ryan, if you get bored on your upcoming tour, please do give me a shout. More »
Ryan Adams Pays Tribute To Superchunk With An “Existential Jam”
4:15 AM on Mon Aug 18 2008 by Maura
… and, by extension, causes me to actually care about his blog for the first time in a while. (Seriously, even those of you who aren’t fans of his other stuff but who do enjoy hypercaffeinated takes on super-distorted indie rock would do well to take 1:27 out of your day and sample the track.) More »
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Ryan Adams Takes On “The Possibly Reality-Challenged” Using The Power Of Hypertext
12:30 PM on Thu Jul 31 2008 by Maura
So Ryan Adams has sort of responded to Courtney Love’s accusation that his album Rock N Roll was recorded with $868,000 of Francis Bean Cobain’s money, posting a “personal statement of clarity” on his Web site that talks about how he’s working hard to become a better person, how he regrets his past mistakes, etc., etc. (There’s also a peace card linked in the source code of the page, but it’s not visible.) At the very end of the statement, he pretty much takes Courtney head-on, saying that he never meant anyone any harm intentionally, especially anyone who goes airing dirty laundry about him online; sure, he doesn’t name any names, but the descriptions “possibly reality-challenged,” “unreliable” and “outlandish” make the target of his ire pretty obvious. Full statement after the jump
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Courtney Love Takes On The Internet, Kind Of Wins
11:00 AM on Mon Jul 21 2008 by Maura
Over the weekend, Courtney Love took to her MySpace page for the purposes of calling out fellow blogger Ryan Adams, thanks to some mysterious American Express bills from 2003 that she believes are evidence that some $858,000 that went into the making of his 2003 album Rock N Roll was funded by Frances Bean Cobain’s inheritance. (I guess that’s why Frances is trying her hand at journalism-type stuff this summer.) Not only is she appalled by the theft, which was apparently part of the identity-theft issues she’s been blogging about and facilitated by her ex-boyfriend/Rock N Roll producer James Barber, she’s irritated that her funds were used to make such a crappy, poorly named album: “Ryan Adams worst record and one of the worst records i can think of in rock and roll history ironically called’Riock and Roll ‘… yeah you listen to this shit im listening to my i tunes on right now who names a record ‘Rock n Roll’ what assholes do that? … with these trebled up guitars my bandmate said sounded like ‘really horrific rem on steroids’ all treble and compresssion and shit wirtten songs – but so what?”
Things That Happen When Page Six Writes About Music
9:30 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008 by Maura
Ryan Adams is turned into an “emo rocker.” Note to the gossipmongerers over there: Having a blog does not make a musician “emo,” even if said blog has ridiculous tendencies. It just greases the wheels for the inevitable book deal a little better than your average lyric sheet. More »
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The Top Ten Not-Bonos
2:30 AM on Wed May 28 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
The social conscience and strident voice of Bono has influenced many a singer over the last few decades. The U2 frontman successfully melded the earnest social conscience of Bruce Springsteen with the self-glorifying pomp of European arena acts, realizing that both the Common Man and King Dick were below Jesus on the food chain. Sure there was precedent, but Sting is handicapped by his ego (and jazz bass), while Ian McCullough wanted to be a romantic poet/sex object more than the messiah. Here are ten singers who, at their best (or worst), have aspired to the Almighty’s throne.
