Links

• The new Aimee Mann album Lost in Space can be streamed at her home page until the release date August 27th (via elements of surprise). Bachelor #2 was one of my favourites in 2000. Aimee Mann always reminds me of Joni Mitchell whose subtle melodies and personal lyrics captivated me a lot during my studies in the 80s. When I heard Aimee the first time I thought she was Joni reincarnated only twenty years younger, a similar crystal clear warm voice and the same looks: slender, fragile with long blond hair.
• Tom Ewing writes on the best-of 21 Singles by The Jesus and Mary Chain. I never really got into that band but I loved the trashy primitive guitar sound very much influenced by the Velvet Underground around White Light/White Heat.
• Strange Fruit has some news on Austin's American Analog Set splitting up as their singer Andrew Kenny is going to attend grad school at Columbia University. Their gig in Frankfurt a couple of weeks ago was my favourite concert this year up to now. Even the Sonic Youth concert in Cologne could not come close to that intense mind-blowing set.
• Ten songs Radiohead played at the first gig of their European Tour in Lisbon on Monday of which the new ones were described as more 'immediate and melodic' than their stuff on Kid A and Amnesiac as mp3s here: punch up at a wedding, myxomatosis, we suck young blood, i will, sail (you) to the moon, karma police, up on the ladder, scatterbrain, there there and lift (via parallx view). I also found Joseph Tate's on-going investigation of the music and art of Radiohead in the form of a weblog: pulk-pull* (via eclogues).
• German: Bekenntnisse einer Frau, die es liebt Männer im Mund zu haben (kam mir anfangs wie ein Fake vor, ist aber in any case lesenswert).