Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up (live, Seattle)

a couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine saw Ryan Adams in Seattle. he sent me this mp3, and I'd like to share it because it's absolutely gorgeous.

Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up (live, Seattle) [mp3]

video: Ryan Adams - "Lucky Now" on Jools Holland

video: Ryan Adams - "Lucky Now" (acoustic)

this is gorgeous:

Ryan Adams announces a new tour

Tour Dates:
10/11 – San Diego, CA @ Balboa Theater
10/13 – Big Sur, CA @ Henry Miller Library
10/14 – San Francisco, CA @ Herbst Theater
10/15 – Napa, CA @ Uptown Theater
10/17 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Rio
10/18 – Sacramento, CA @ Crest Theatre
10/20 – Eugene, OR @ The Shedd
10/21 – Seattle, WA @ Benaroya (City Arts Festival)
10/27 – London, UK @ Union Chapel
10/28 – York, UK @ York Grand Opera House
10/30 – Edinburgh, UK @ Edinburgh Festival Theatre
11/02 – Paris, FR @ Le Trianon Hall
11/05 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royale
12/02 – Philadelphia, PA @ Academy of Music
12/04 – Baltimore, MD @ Lyric Opera House
12/06 – New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall
12/08 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
12/10 – Toronto, ON @ Winter Garden Theatre
12/11 – Chicago, IL @ Cadillac Place
12/13 – Minneapolis, MN @ State Theatre

Ryan Adams - Shine Through the Dark

If you ever catch yourself wishing Ryan Adams never went electric, this track is for you.

The previously unreleased song was the first one Ryan wrote after he "quit" music

Ryan Adams: Shine Through the Dark by Under the Radar magazine

the song can be found on the upcoming charity compilation album, Live from Nowhere Near You: Vol II (which hits stores on July 19). you can view the whole tracklist and preorder the album HERE

photos: Ryan Adams in LA studio

oh

my

sweet

carolina.

more HERE

Ryan Adams' one-two punch

"Tomorrow starts the first day of two weeks of recording a new solo album. The songs are based around my acoustic with some stark drums/bass/piano in there. anI'm keeping these recordings simple......THEN in two weeks I am off to NYC to record part two of the crazy NYC sessions I started last month by accident. What started as a weekend studio hang with Johnny and Tom Schick turned into some kind of Smiths/Simple Minds/Love Is Hell throw-back and just way too much fun to not finish. So two coasts, two sessions happening. The new daze are here... fingers crossed these things turn out! I'll check in again from the studio this week. Meanwhile enjoy a few more photo's from the last studio sessions. DRA"

via

new Ryan Adams merch finally available

I love Ryan Adams and Chuck Klosterman so much that I tend to forgive their obsessions with metal music--but neither of them can ever seem to shut up about it. if you guys can remember, Orion should be Ryan Adam's metal masterpiece.

you can preorder it HERE, it has been pressed in very limited quantities so don't wait.

Ryan Adams - Electrosnake [mp3]

Ryan Adams is back!

because, all amazingness aside, his youtube channel has never quenched my relentless thirst for Ryan Adams. thankfully, though, he's gone back on his "I have quit music" schpeal and it looks as though a new LP is about to see light of day! huzzah!

from his website:

"We're going to begin pressing ORION -- my most legit METAL record -- on vinyl next week."

is it bad that I am rooting for his marriage to fail?

Ryan Adams - Electrosnake [mp3]

Nick Hornby's Essay on Ryan Adams

read it HERE

cheers to Jonathan for telling me about this...it has caused me to rebinge on Hornby

book review: Ryan Adams - Hello Sunshine

Pain can be the best fuel for art. The sweet bitterness of being lonesome translates well into both poetry and music. Ryan Adams’ phenomenal discography and debut book of poetry (Infinity Blues) exemplify this well.

Call me a single cynic, but one of my biggest pet peeves is when people you are close to fall in love. The same friends who used to join you in deploring the ridiculousness of lovey dovey people turn their backs on you and join the others. The others.

Hello Sunshine is Ryan Adams’ second book, and it has neither the intensity nor the anguished honesty of Infinity Blues. It reads like a love letter to his wife. The contentment relayed in the pages is basically career suicide for his poet self. The sober Ryan Adams—the loving husband, the non-smoker, this Ryan Adams does not interest me.

The book has its moments. “Yes” is beautiful, “A colorful ending” is vivid and lucid, and “Fruit Rotting” strikes close to the poems found in Infinity Blues. I will admit that the poems are written with the unapologetic flourish that embodies so much of why I love Ryan Adam's work. The stream of consciousness which was definitely typed up once and not edited. The purity of form. But the substance is all wrong, and all in all, the book was a disappointment.

Adams self-mockingly writes “poets smoke/now/i am really screwed/i am not smoking/damnit”, but he ends the poem triumphantly, thinking that he can still craft good poetry in this state of newfound well-being. I beg to differ. Ryan, why have you forsaken me?

“quietly, I am happy now”?!

Give me recklessness. Give me youth. Don’t give me the precursor to your memoirs as a soccer dad.

I guess he’s forgotten his own wisdom, despite having taken copious notes thereof:
“note to self don't die for anyone. note to self, don't die. note to self, don’t change for anyone. note to self don't die.”

Ryan Adams - Note to Self: Don't Die [mp3]

MAGNET: over/underrated Ryan Adams songs

it looks very different from the list I would have compiled, but it's a great list nonetheless.

as most of you probably know, I am a shameless Ryan Adams addict. (don't believe me? yes, that's right, 2.3 DAYS and running.) I love the photo they chose, it's from the Gold album sleeve artwork. I just love looking at Ryan in that simple room, just a bed, booze, guitar, flag and record player. mmm.

anyhow, here is the list:

Most Overrated:
1. “New York, New York” (2001)

2. “To Be Young (Is To Be Sad Is To Be High)” (2000)

3. “Fix It” (2008)

4. “Desire” (2002)

5. “29″ (2005)

Most Underrated:
1. “Walls” (2001) [mp3]

2. “Ah, Life” (2004)

3. “Cracks In A Photograph” (2002)

4. “Decapitated Chicken” (2006)

5. “Heavy Orange” (2008)

read the full thing over at MAGNET

RIP Chris Feinstein

the man behind the bass of Ryan Adams' Cardinals has passed away. according to this NME article, he also has collaborated with Albert Hammond Jr.

this is a sad, sad day. he was only 42.

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Magick [mp3]

RIP, sir.

Ryan Adams at Austin City Limits

I've recently stumbled upon a gem in my unheard music folder: Ryan Adams' entire set from Austin City Limits in 2002. oh, to be young. just thought I'd share.

1. Intro [mp3]
2. Nuclear [mp3]
3. Firecracker [mp3]
4. Answering Bell/Wharf Rat [mp3]
5. Touch, Feel & Lose [mp3]
6. La Cienga Just Smiled [mp3]
7. To Be Young [mp3]
8. Shakedown on 9th St [mp3]
9. New York, New York [mp3]
10. Brown Sugar [mp3]
11. Nobody Girl [mp3]

Ryan Adams - Live at Austin City Limits (2002) [zip]

BONUS:
this is hilarious.

Ryan Adams explains the internet

haha, well, sort of



he is such a babe.

Ryan Adams is experimenting with drugs

observe:



I cannot stop laughing. Oh, Ryan, how I love you so.

MUST WATCH VIDEO: Ryan Adams - So Alive

Right now, I'm listening to Rock n Roll as I read "The Tale of Zumurrud and Ali Shar" in The Thousand and One Nights (really good, ftw), and "So Alive" came on, making me nostalgic for the following video, which, in my opinion is MUCH better than the studio version

enjoy!



I can't believe I've never posted this before, I watch it all of the time!

new Ryan Adams song!

HE'S BACK!!



lo-fi goodness.

Ryan Adams is one of my favourite songwriters ever. he's so incredible. now excuse me, I have to go listen to Heartbreaker for the nine thousand six hundred and twenty fourth time.

a really strange Ryan Adams b-side

it barely sounds like him:

Ryan Adams - Twice as Bad as Love [mp3]
from This Is It (single)

ah, bootlegs

I'm listening to Ryan Adams right now and I just realized,

I have 528 Ryan Adams songs on my iTunes

that's more than either The Strokes (257) or The Beatles (311)

mainly because Ryan Adams is so cool about bootlegging and his live shows are so spectacular.

if The Beatles > Jesus, and Ryan Adams is (QUANTITATIVELY) > The Beatles, then, it must logically follow,

Ryan Adams >> Jesus.
(hey, look, my high school geometry finally came in handy!)

see above picture for further elaboration.


Ryan Adams - Last Nite (The Strokes cover) [mp3]

another contender for high number of songs is Elliott Smith at 453.

sadly, I somehow only have 111 David Bowie mp3s. I have a lot of his work on vinyl, but 111 is just sad.

grand total song count on iTunes is 14,679, but it gets bigger every day. I delete the stuff I don't like, so I don't get any unpleasant surprises when I put my music on shuffle. there are 148 individual songs and about 10 albums on my desktop that I have yet to load into iTunes and listen to...