The Strib: Westerberg & Stinson together again
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Chris Rimenschnieder has an itty bitty piece on the Strib’s site about talking to Tommy Stinson on the phone about the recent reissues. He says that Tommy’s been noodling around with Our Man Paul and Michael Bland! Yowza.
Tags: paul westerberg, Strib, tommy stinson
Paul Westerberg talks about death
By Jodi | Filed under Books, PW News | Comments (0)
Late last night I got an e-mail from Graeme Thomson author of I Shot a Man in Reno: A History of Death by Murder, Suicide, Fire, Flood, Drugs, Disease, and General Misadventure, As Related in Popular Song. He told me about about an interview he did with Our Man Paul. Thompson has a short excerpt from the interview on his site. It’s hard resisting the urge to clip out the best lines and paste them here for you. But I am not gonna do that. You can click the link and go read it for yourself.
It is really, quite fascinating. Paul talks a bit about death and discussing it with his son Johnny. It’s only a few short paragraphs, but might just be one of my favorite interviews of recent note. Why? Because it’s not about reunions and legends and blah, blah, blah, but something different.
Want more? You should take a look at Thomson’s Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay.
Tags: Books, Graeme Thomson, Interviews, paul westerberg
Oops they did did it again, or he’ll be me for awhile and I’ll be him
By Jodi | Filed under In the News, Westbergesque | Comments (5)
I am not sure what to do about Paste magazine who despite my best intentions refuses to believe that I am not Paul Westerberg. In today’s post on their site they seem to think Our Man Paul is bored with Sarah Palin, job hunting, and my eyebrows too.
What is a girl who is not Paul Westerberg to do?
Tags: bored of edukation, not paul westerberg, paste
Some things to get you pumped about tomorrow’s reissues
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (0)
First of all, the Newsday story that features this gem:
So will the college-rock standbys reunite, perhaps?
“I think we still exist in some sort of fragmented form,” Westerberg says. “It’s just a question of whether he and I can ever get together again … that’s how close we are, I can’t even mention his — name.”
Typical Westerberg. He’s talking about his longtime bassist and foil, Tommy Stinson. “One day Tommy wants to sue me, the next he wants to jam. I think he’s in the jamming mood this week, but by the time he gets here we might just meet and fight.”
And then there are Bill Holdship’s liner notes for the reissued Pleased to Meet Me, which got the ax because they wanted different writers for each CD’s notes and they were gonna use Holdship for Don’t Tell a Soul.
Tags: All Shook Down, Don't Tell a Soul, paul westerberg, Pleased to Meet Me, The Replacements reissues, Tim, tommy stinson
NEW song “Bored of Edukation” available for download
By Jodi | Filed under In the News, Media | Comments (15)
Well, well, well. . . we knew it was only a matter of time. Download Bored of Edukation on Amazon now! It’s a single 4:46 song for 99 cents. I’ll pass on the Tunecore link for those not in the US as soon as I can.
Dudes, did you know Bob Mould was writing his autobiography? How come nobody tells me this stuff!
This is an awful lot of news for a damn Friday. What the hell people?
Tags: Bob Mould, bored of education, downloads, paul westerberg
New Paul Westerberg: 3oclockreep & Finally Here Once
By Jodi | Filed under In the News, Media | Comments (52)
You can download the album which is called “3oclockreep” from Tunecore for $3.99. It consists of two tracks, one called “3oclockreep” which clocks in at 20:08 and the other called “Finally Here Once” which comes in at 3:27. I think Our Man Paul is trying to nickel and dime us to death. I haven’t downloaded either song yet. But I think something must be up, I mean this is odd.
Tags: 3oclockreep, Finally Here Once, paul westerberg
Tributes to Steve Foley
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Chris Rimenschneider of the Strib turns in a beautiful article about the one-time drummer for The Replacements.
Rock and Roll Geek Network reports the death and includes a Bash and Pop video.
Here’s Jim Walsh’s piece about Foley’s death.
Teenage Kicks reports on the death and includes a few Bash and Pop songs too.
Tags: Steve Foley
R.I.P Steve Foley
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (10)
As reported in the comments down below, it seems as though one-time Replacements/ drummer Steve Foley has died. MPR’s 89.3 The Current is reporting the death on their site, though I can’t seem to find anything on the Strib or PiPress. I am sure it’s only a matter of hours before more information is released and tributes start rolling in from around the Twin Cities.
I’ll keep you updated.
UPDATE #1: The forums at Velvet Rope have a post about Foley’s death and an e-mail from Jim Walsh.
UPDATE #2: A friend of Steve’s said the cause of death was an accidental overdose. So sad.
UPDATE #3: Steve Foley’s sister thanks Westernerds for their condolences.
Tags: death, sad, Steve Foley
Missing 5:05 Found — Mystery Behind Vanished 49:00 Solved
By Jodi | Filed under In the News | Comments (27)
You can buy the missing 5:05 missing from 49:00 on Tunecore for either a buck or $5.05.
From what I can gather, 49:00 was suddenly and mysteriously pulled off the web for copyright problems. That damn medley.
So what do you think, five more minutes for a buck?
More, more, more, how do you like it? How do you like it?
By Jodi | Filed under In the Blogs, PW News | Comments (7)
MinnPost has a bit about 49:00 and Darren Hill’s non-answers to some questions.
Some Guy has come up for some Tabs for (Tell Me) Who You Gonna Marry? You can take a look over in the forums.
There’s plenty of conventional songcraft, too, largely in the vein of his most recent solo work. Getting to it just takes a little more patience than it did with past releases.
What say ye oh my beloved Westernerds?
And here, over at On the Record, Allan Raible seems to agree about he difficultness of the record however, says, that its difficulty provides a liberating listening experience.
Here’s a random thought that I’ve just had going through all this coverage of 49:00, you could spend an entire day if you were so inclined correcting the misinformation regarding this release and Paul Westerberg in general. It just proves the point that yes, yes everyone is stupid.
So, 49:00 is still at the top of the Amazon MP3 charts.
I’m not sure why, but this Steve Cohen photo from the Guthrie shows back in 2002 randomly popped up in my searches today. It’s a beauty.
Pop Matters says 49:00 might just be the year’s best, and that it’s a lot of fun to listen to.
And one more thing before I go, okay, maybe two more things. First, it amazes me the coverage of the album all over the world. Ol’ paulwesterberg.net has been linked to sites in Italian, German, and Japanese regarding this album. It totally floats my boat seeing that.
Secondly, tomorrow I’m hoping to share some thoughts about the album tomorrow (feel free to post your own whenever you feel like it — we’ve got an open door policy here), and one of things I am pondering is the whole 49 cents thing. Does the price mean that we should not hold it up to the same standard as a record we had paid $9.99 or $14.99 for? Tomorrow I will have come up with an answer, at least an answer that works for me.
Tags: 49:00, paul westerberg, Reviews
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