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The Nuns - The Nuns (New Wave US 1980)

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2008-11-03 07:28:00 by ChrisGoesRock in ChrisGoesRock
...Nuns! Although the Nuns, led by Alejandro Escovedo (future Rank & File) and Jennifer Miro (Debbie Harry's West Coast counterpart), ruled the San Francisco punk scene in the late 70s, courted by major labels and selling out nightly shows at San Francisco's hottest clubs, by the time the band broke up at the beginning of 1980 they still had not...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Nuns

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2008-11-29 11:03:00 by Club80 in The Post Punk Progressive Pop Party
...Nuns released their self-titled debut album. It contained the singles, " Savage ", " World War III " and " Wild ", though theye were all re-recorded. The whole album was a re-recording by the band after they had already broken up but they got together to put this record out. Guitarist Alejandro Escovedo had already left the band before the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Video: Stephin Merritt: The Nuns Litany / This Little Ukulele (Live on Backstage With Other Music)

2008-07-29 17:07:59 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
 
...Nuns Litany sounds just as good stripped bare . (Thats how the nun would want it, anyway.) New Yorks Other Music recently recorded Merritt singing both The Nuns Litany and his 2002 Eban and Charley soundtracks This Little Ukulele backstage at the citys Town Hall , accompanied only by his bouzouki. Merritt slurs over a word here and there, but...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Cat Empire Unveil Dancing Nuns; New Album, "So Many Nights," Out 4/22

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2008-03-31 13:45:00 by Editor in Starpulse News Blog - Music News
Getting chased around by scantily clad nuns isn't an everyday occurrence for most of us. But for Australian superstars The Cat Empire it's not necessarily out of the ordinary class="middle" /> Read more
 
 
 
 
 
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stephin merritt plays the nuns litany backstage at other music and a question.

2008-07-30 11:48:09 by Douglas Martin in Fresh Cherries from Yakima: They Can't Hold Piss
 
...nuns litany is it socially acceptable for black people to like the magnetic fields because i do
 
 
 
 
 
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Vince Neil: I Cut a Nuns Head Off With a Chainsaw - Bands Dont Do That Anymore

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2008-11-18 19:00:32 by Steve Appleford in Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
...nuns head off. You dont see that shit at all anymore, which is kind of sad How does that connect to what youre doing now We just have more money to do it with. Weve created a monster and we have to top ourselves every year and put out a bigger and better tour. When you go see a Mötley Crüe show, you know its going to be a huge production, a...
 
 
 
 
 
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Alejandro Escovedo: Living Inside The Myth

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2008-06-19 17:06:00 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
...Nuns . Even then, the primary reason he assembled the group was to produce a student film he was working on about the worst band ever. We had a lot of potential, Escovedo says, but we didnt really know how to play. Nonetheless, they opened for the Sex Pistols at their very last show at San Franciscos Winterland and performed a memorable gig...
 
 
 
 
 
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Puccini Double Header!

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2008-11-15 16:00:03 by Li Robbins in Radio 2 Blog
...nuns, all of whom were moved to tears. Another valuable source of information was Puccinis lifelong friend, the priest Father Pietro Panichelli, who supplied the text for what the composer flippantly referred to as the Marcia reale della Madonna of the final scene The work was completed on 25 July, Puccinis name-day, and was first given...
 
 
 
 
 
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Uncaging Alejandros Animal

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2008-07-13 02:44:54 by Mike the Knife of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
...Nuns with its late-70s new-wave revision of the Velvet Undergrounds dark, drugged-up 60s art-rock. But he fit right in. Then, in a surprise to the hardcore crowd, he shook off the urban grit of the Nuns and went cow-punk as a member of Rank & File, a rootsy, country-rockin band formed by Chip & Tony Kinman who were also favorites on the S.F....