Larry Ryan is an Assistant Home News Editor for The Independent. He also writes the "Caught in the Net" music column for the paper's Arts & Books section on Friday. He wears thick glasses and talks slowly, traits which people occasionally mistake for signs of intelligence.
The latest episode of Zach Galifianakis’ web chatshow ‘Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis’ is up on the Funny or Die site.
The comedian/actor is best known for his role in The Hangover, but he’s also a hghly regarded comedian, with a penchant for bizarre web videos, including a series of ads for Absolut Vodka and [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Thursday, 29 July 2010 at 3:45 pm
Last year’s collaboration with Scarlett Johansson was probably more aesthetically pleasing but music fans will likely be more excited by Pete Yorn’s latest hook-up with Frank Black, aka Black Francis (not to be confused with Frances Black). The Pixies frontman has produced the LA singer-songwriter’s new self-titled album, which will be released on 28 September.
The [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Wednesday, 28 July 2010 at 3:57 pm
For a PBS TV series folklorist Alan Lomax travelled through the south and southwest of America shooting 400 hours of footage of people performing blues and folk songs. Over the weekend a YouTube channel was launched for this material.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Tuesday, 27 July 2010 at 10:27 am
Why don’t we cut to the chase and simply ask politicians what are their feelings about Richard Nixon before they run for high office? It could save us all a lot of time in the long run.
By Larry Ryan | Eagle Eye | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 4:35 pm
The electro-shoegaze return band with their first new material in 14 years. And rather good it is too.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 26 July 2010 at 12:38 pm
A video getting some attention recently is a clip from the US sitcom Louie .The show, reminiscent of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, features comedian Louis CK playing a loosely autobiographical, fictional version of himself. In the clip in question, the comedian and a group of his male friends (also comedians) crack wise while playing [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts, Digital Digest, Notebook | Saturday, 24 July 2010 at 10:13 am
I’m normally quite anti biopics, especially formulaic ones about musicians, but I am quite excited to see the Joann Sfar’s Serge Gainsbourg film which comes out next week. To mark the release, this week’s Friday playlist is themed around the French master.
I’ve put in some of my favourite songs by Serge, though his back catalogue [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Friday, 23 July 2010 at 9:30 am
I was at the Vice/Intel Creators Project shindig with my colleague Jack Riley in London last weekend. Beyond all the attention grabbing music and interactive digital art exhibits, the most interesting thing I attended all day was something far more old-fashioned; a talk by Berlin based “media artist” and university professor Joachim Sauter (right).
As Jack wrote [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Wednesday, 21 July 2010 at 3:23 pm
Back in December I interviewed Piper of LA duo Pearl Harbor. She and her sister Skylar make music that slots into the current wave of US lo-fi bands mixing shoegaze and surf guitars, ethereal sounds and distant, somewhat flat vocals. One friend of mine sarcastically expressed his wish that such bands would just stand closer [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 6:07 pm
The latest War Child charity record is an epic David Bowie tribute album featuring Vivian Girls, Warpaint and Carla Bruni.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Monday, 19 July 2010 at 4:46 pm
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