The Oedipus Project
It’s been 7 years since we last heard from PJ Harvey.
Her 10th album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, is due in July.
“A Child’s Question, August” is her advance offering.
P.S. I first experienced PJ Harvey years ago at a small club in Boston/Cambridge with about 11 other people. Iconoclastically fascinating as always.
“A Child’s Question, August”
Other postings on PJ Harvey accessible through the Search tab.
Longtime collaborators PJ Harvey and Jon Parish duet together on Parish’s forthcoming solo album Big Dog Dante.
“Sorry For Your Loss”is a mournfully lovely tribute to their mutual friend, the late Sparklehorse frontman Mark Linkous.
“Sorry For Your Loss”
Coachella, the annual weekend music and arts festival (and rite of passage), has begun in Indio, CA.
In celebration, Spin Magazine is offering a free download of 10 must-hear artists that will be performing.
These include !!!, Big Audio Dynamite, The London Suede, PJ Harvey, Wire, Glasser, The Chemical Brothers, Cut Copy, Lightning Bolt and Erykah Badu. Most are familiar names on this website.
This compilation, known as Whoachella, is yours for free here from Spin in exchange for your email address.
And listen below to a reunited Big Audio Dynamite!
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E=MC2 by Big Audio Dynamite
New Oedipus Project podcast today at 5:00 pm Eastern and on-demand thereafter on CyberStationUSA featuring:
White Denim
Death Cab for Cutie
The Naked and Famous
The Kills
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Bat for Lashes
Deerhunter
Crystal Stilts
The National
PJ Harvey
TV on the Radio
Noah and the Whale
Belle and Sebastian
Tamaryn
Today The Oedipus Project expands as we begin broadcasting on CyberStationUSA, a premier internet radio portal.
This hour long broadcast/podcast airs every Thursday at 5:00 pm Eastern and On Demand thereafter.
Radiohead
Fleet Foxes
The Strokes
PJ Harvey
Lykke Li
Cut Copy
Crystal Castles
British Sea Power
Bright Eyes
Beady Eye
The Decemberists
The Airborne Toxic Event
Cold Cave
Dum Dum Girls
We never know quite what to expect from PJ Harvey and that’s one of the many reasons that makes her so interesting. Her music is demanding, but she opens so many new worlds. I remember seeing her perform in the early 90’s before a dozen or so people at a tiny club in the Boston area (TT the Bear’s) and have been mesmerized ever since.
Her eighth album Let England Shake is due on Valentine’s Day next year. The album was co-produced with Flood, John Parish and Mick Harvey (no relation), and we have a song from the new recording. PJ Harvey mesmerizes once again with “Written on the Forehead”.
The band The xx were just named the winners of the 2010 Mercury Prize awarded for the best album by a UK or Irish band. Established in 1992, Primal Scream’s Screamadelica took home the initial award. Other winners have included Suede, Portishead, Pulp, Badly Drawn Boy, PJ Harvey, Dizzee Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Antony and the Johnsons, Arctic Monkeys, Klaxons and Elbow. Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Foals, Paul Weller, Dizzee Rascal, Corinne Bailey Rae and Wild Beasts were among this year’s nominees. The trio receives £20,000. “Crystalised” and “Islands” are two singles from The xx debut album xx, plus the song “Infinity” a personal fave.
“Crystalised”
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“Islands”
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“Infinity”
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