Fiona Apple - Dull Tool

I like this even better than “Hot Knife” - so. good.

Philip Glass: “It’s the not knowing that makes it interesting.” →

austinkleon:

Great mini-interview w/ Beck and Philip Glass about their recent collaboration.

I’m interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don’t like anyone to touch their music, I think people should because they do things I can’t think of. I’m the opposite of being possessive about a piece.

He illustrates this idea in a story about Arthur Russell:

I wrote him a cello piece, and he liked the work and was playing it. And I came back about three months later, and I heard it and I said, “Arthur, that’s beautiful, but what happened to the piece?” And he said, “No, no, that is what you wrote,” and I said, “Arthur, it’s no longer what I wrote, it’s your piece now.” And he thought I was being upset, he apologized and I said, “No, no, no, I think we should put you down as the composer.” He had reached the point of transformation. The incremental changes had turned it into this other thing. I love the fact that he did that. And I love the fact that he didn’t know that he did it.

Talking Heads - “Once In A Lifetime”

You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here? 

NPR: Fiona Apple Every Single Night →

It’s been seven years since Fiona Apple has released a new album. The singer-songwriter, who broke out in 1996 with Tidal, says the delay is a quirk of her creative process.

“The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don’t really have a plan,” Apple tells NPR’s Guy Raz. “I got a lot of problems, but I’m really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.”

The wait is almost over. On June 19, she’s releasing her new album, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do.

Lee Hazlewood - Won’t You Tell Your Dreams

Charlotte Gainsbourg - L’Hôtel Particulier (Live)

omg.

Birdy - Skinny Love [One Take Music Video]