Not a “recluse” after all, it would seem. Just “low key.” Such is the self-examination performed by Scott Walker during the TV feature embedded below (from the modestly titled “The Culture Show”) (update–apparently YouTube’s down at the moment–grab the clip from WFMU) and also available for download here at WFMU. 4AD’s getting [...]

Nikki Sudden, of Swell Maps and later of Jacobites and then simply of Nikki Sudden, passed on early yesterday morning. Over here for discussion and encomia. Over here for live on WFMU a week ago.

“New York” (mp3)

There’s a good deal of hubbub here (good stuff from this guy and this guy in particular, who are both smart) about this guy, who wrote this (pdf) and apparently didn’t talk to the people he inferred he did, resulting in this. It smacks a lot of this, naturally, but also a little bit [...]