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.
As with their New York event, the Creators Project gathered together some fine musical minds on stage and, with the help of audience suggestion, they made a song. A crowd-sourced hit factory. Maybe.
At the controls were Mumdance of Mad Decent and producer Rodaidh McDonald (best known for his work with The XX), both sitting over [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Saturday, 17 July 2010 at 10:11 pm
Inspired by the devilishly smart online campaign for Bret Easton Ellis’ Imperial Bedrooms (see thedevilinyou.com), which includes a Spotify soundtrack to the novel, for this week’s Friday Playlist I’ve tried to expand the idea out by using music references from Ellis’ entire ouevre (with a little help from the film adaptations of his work too).
As a piece [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Friday, 16 July 2010 at 4:20 pm
With each new season Bob Boilen, host of NPR’s excellent weekly music podcast ‘All Songs Considered‘, gathers together a few of his producers and bloggers, including Carrie Brownstein, late of Sleater Kinney, to preview some of the best new music releases to look out for over the coming months. Though much of it falls into [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Friday, 9 July 2010 at 6:03 pm
TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek goes on a solo run with the help of some friends and esteemed guests.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 7:27 pm
Converse, Best Coast, Kid Cudi and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend team up for a summery new song.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 5:07 pm
Drum roll please… with celebrities, football and a flying parrot leading the charge. here are our top posts from the last seven days
By Larry Ryan | Notebook | Thursday, 8 July 2010 at 4:15 pm
This week’s Spotify playlist was compiled by Nick Zamutto of The Books.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Friday, 2 July 2010 at 3:38 pm
A fascinating photo essay from Foreign Policy magazine shows Afghanistan before decades of conflict.
By Larry Ryan | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 2 July 2010 at 1:02 pm
Beck and friends cover mustachioed Greek new age composer Yanni in the latest of his long running Record Club series.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Friday, 2 July 2010 at 11:23 am
Listen to “By Some Miracle”, the first track from “drummer from Radiohead” Philip Selway’s debut solo album.
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Thursday, 1 July 2010 at 4:46 pm
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