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Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang –“Play, Guitar, Play”
Will Oldham has a new album The Wonder Show Of The World forthcoming in March under the Bonnie “Prince” Billy & The Cairo Gang moniker (there they are above). His U.S. label Drag City just posted...
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Joanna Newsom Is Done Reading Blogs
Joanna Newsom becomes less of an enigma with each interview. The polarizing songwriter is Under The Radar‘s spring cover girl and between the pages is an enlightening ten page spread: a far-reaching...
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Hot Chip (Feat. Will Oldham) –“I Feel Bonnie” Video
“I Feel Bonnie” is Hot Chip and Will Oldham’s remake of One Life Stand‘s “I Feel Better.” This video traces the evolution of the punchline. Fewer explosions than the original’s video, but just as...
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy Covers Sufjan
Will Oldham’s cover of “All The Trees Of The Field Will Clap Their Hands” appears on the Sufjan Stevens-blessed Seven Swans Reimagined. Oldham’s joined by Meg Baird, Emmett Kelly, Ben Boye, Van...
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy –“Quail And Dumplings” Video
In late August, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy digitally released the single “Quail And Dumplings” and now that song has a video directed by Ben Berman. It’s an island survivor story, and though it doesn’t...
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Hear David Byrne & Will Oldham As Pieces Of Shit
This Must Be The Place is the new movie where Sean Penn, seriously, plays an aging Robert-Smith-lookalike Nazi-hunter rock star. Obviously, we’re all going to watch the shit out of this movie. But if...
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Weird Merch Alert 2: Bonnie “Prince” Billy Coffee
It’s nothing on the level of Disney’s still-inexplicable Joy Division T-shirt, but it’s still a nice little curiosity to keep on your shelf: avant-folk iconoclast Will Oldham now has his own blend of...
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Bonnie “Prince” Billy –“I See A Darkness” Video
Bonnie “Prince” Billy has a new EP coming out featuring six reworked versions of songs from his own catalog, and the first sliver of that comes via a new black-and-white video for “I See A Darkness.”...
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Will Oldham Albums From Worst To Best
In the 2005 film Junebug, Will Oldham’s character works for a Chicago curator, on the lookout for “outsider artists” in the backwoods of North Carolina for a big city gallery. It’s not a bad metaphor...
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Deconstructing: Daft Punk, Will Oldham, And Two Decades Of Mysterious...
One of the things I remember most from this year’s SXSW isn’t a particular artist, a showcase, or party. It’s a Daft Punk billboard.Read More...
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New Charlie Louvin (Feat. Will Oldham) –“Knoxville Girl”
As part of the Country Hall Of Fame honored Louvin Brothers, Charlie wrote songs that shaped commercial country music in the ’50s and ’60s, and later left a mark on alt-country, being covered by Gram...
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Guilt By Association
The freak folk tribute to Madonna may or may not qualify as an endeavor indulging a guilty pleasure for a few of the participating freaky folkers, but the forthcoming collection Guilt By Association...
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Alternate Kanye West Video (Feat. Zach Galifianakis & Will Oldham) –“Can’t...
Must-see video of the week? Right here. Been hearing a lot about Zach’s vid collab with Kanye, and we even got a peek at it during Galifianakis’s now-infamous bad art auction (ostrich!), but now it’s...
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Behind The Air Humping: Zach Galifianakis Talks Kanye
The award for the net’s-best-thing this week goes to Zach and Will Oldham’s tractor-ized tribute to Kanye West’s “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” Some of you guessed Jon Brion was the catalyst for Bonnie and...
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New Scout Niblett (Feat. Will Oldham) Video –“Kiss”
Trick or treat? In the gorgeous, autumnal Scout Niblett and Judah Switzer-directed video for “Kiss,” the first single from This Fool Can Die Now, Emma Louise dons a wig and stuffs bread against her...
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Radiohead.tv DJ Sets
Radiohead.tv brought us heads in boxes, Björk and Smiths covers, a live “Reckoner,” and that surreal have-we-all-gone-deaf performance, among sundry other goodies … like those DJ sets. When we live...
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New Bonnie “Prince” Billy –“You Can’t Hurt Me Now” (Live) & Beware Album Art
A couple weeks ago Kelefa Sanneh wrote an interesting (if overly mystifying) piece on Will Oldham in The New Yorker. In it, Sanneh notes that Oldham refers to Lie Down In The Light as “the little...
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New Bonnie “Prince” Billy –“One Day At A Time”
As far as we can tell from the tracklist, “One Day At A Time” doesn’t appear on the forthcoming Beware, but the uplifting — one day at a time we can learn to leave machines behind, to fly, to look the...
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New Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Brian Harnetty Video –“Sleeping In The Driveway”
From Beware’s “You Can’t Hurt Me Now” to his take on Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens’ “One Day At A time” (thanks, Reid), there’s been plenty Bonnie “Prince” Billy news as of late. Now, Ohio musician/artist...
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Will Oldham Has Beef With Wes Anderson, Apparently?
In an interview, the Bonnie one says Anderson has a “completely cancerous approach to using music,” likening the filmmaker’s vision to “’Here’s my iPod on shuffle, and here’s my movie.’” Adding insult...
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