Of all the unlikely places to hear “deadly drops”, I think that bastion of middle class bourgeoisie, the NPR website, is the most unlikely. Still, credit where credit is due, this short list is killer: The 5 Deadliest Drops Of 2010 : NPR Dunno if it got on the actual radio network tho… (bonus points for the inclusion of one of this PoOPsters’ favourites of the year)
Holiday listening with your favourite chamber-pop bourgie-bohemians Belle And Sebastians Holiday Spectacular : NPR
An obit from the Guardian, UK Captain Beefheart, who has died aged 69, was provocative and unpredictable | Music | The Guardian Our fellow PoOPSter, Jim Finnigan, sent along this fine remembrance of the famously prickly Don Van Vliet From: Jim Finnigan Subject: My Captain Beefheart experience Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 11:39 PM I saw Captain Beefheart perform 4 times but I met him once. It must have been in the fall of 1976, I hitchhiked from Albany to Poughkeepsie on a beautiful autumn day to meet a friend who lived in Po-town and catch a show by Beefheart…
December 21st. On the NPR and Guardian.co.uk websites. The show starts at 9pm (GMT) and 4pm (EST) Barrowland Webcast | Belle and Sebastian
A fun set of pictures with a wide variety of people and records. This is why the WFMU Record Fair is different. Go here to see all 230 of the pictures: Dust & Grooves Photo Booth at The WFMU Record Fair 2010, NYC. Or here for the project home site: Dust and Grooves: WFMU Or here for the public page in the walled garden of Facebook P.S. At least two poopsters are in the gallery. At least one of those two is showing the wear and tear of a three day record show…