Joseph Arthur might be homeless, but that doesn't mean he can't put together another visually interesting video. In the flickering, home movie-style clip for Temporary People's anthemic "Faith," we see Arthur drop his daughter off at his ex's place, don... CONTINUE READING NEW JOSEPH ARTHUR & THE LONELY ASTRONAUTS VIDEO - "FAITH" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on November 6, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Joseph Arthur | Micachu And The Shapes | Passion Pit
Awhile back we mentioned Joseph having a party at his Dumbo art space, yes it's called the Museum of Modern Arthur, a gallery devoted to his work as a painter (and the occasional party). Since then he's pissed off his... CONTINUE READING NEW JOSEPH ARTHUR VIDEO - "TEMPORARY PEOPLE"»
Posted on August 26, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Joseph Arthur | Kuroma | Public Enemy
This pair of Joseph Arthur videos are strangely (purposely?) old-school downtown New York. In the Gabriel Judet-Weinshel-directed "Second Sight," we get JA projected against a billboard at Lafayette and Grand, decked in his ubiquitous shades, because that's how you achieve... CONTINUE READING JOSEPH ARTHUR HIJACKS A BILLBOARD, PAINTS ALL NIGHT, REMINDS US WHY HE'S "PRETTY GOOD COMPANY"»
Posted on June 6, 2008 in , , (13 comments)
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Joseph Arthur's busy. As we mentioned when taking "Rages Of Babylon" for a spin, 2008's the year of five Joseph Arthur releases. To recount: The Could We Survive EP came out in March, followed by this month's Crazy Rain EP.... CONTINUE READING NEW JOSEPH ARTHUR - "I WANNA GET YOU ALONE"»
Posted on April 9, 2008 in (9 comments)
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Interested in filling a rock club to the rafters? Simple: Just have Nada Surf and Destroyer play back to back sometime. People were stuffed asses to elbows at Volume night club for the first day of the Stereogum/PASTE party, although... CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY IN PHOTOS»
Posted on March 15, 2008 in (1 comments)
Tags: Destroyer | Dr. Dog | Ezra Furman | Islands | Joseph Arthur | Lou Reed | Lykke Li | Mark Kozelek | Moby | Nada Surf | Oh No! Oh My! | Peter Morén | SXSW | Thurston Moore | Yo La Tengo
While Ryan is busy writing (and then deleting) one-offs to his ex, JA's upping his output to pick up this year's most prolific songwriter mantle. This is the year of five Joseph Arthur releases (four EPs and an album), and... CONTINUE READING NEW JOSEPH ARTHUR - "RAGES OF BABYLON" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on January 21, 2008 in (25 comments)
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Between blog posts of his TMI-prose, Joseph Arthur writes music. A lot of it, actually; he's got two records out this year, the first of which (Let's Just Be) dropped last month. Also during his poetic downtime, Joseph enjoys bumming... CONTINUE READING NEW JOSEPH ARTHUR & THE LONELY ASTRONAUTS VIDEO - "DIAMOND RING"»
Posted on May 23, 2007 in (4 comments)
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Paste, America's #1 Triple-A music magazine, has been crushing on singer/songwriter/erotic poet Joseph Arthur for a while, with raves for 2006's Nuclear Daydream and this year's follow-up Let's Just Be (3.5 stars). The editors invited him to perform for Paste's... CONTINUE READING JOSEPH ARTHUR DEEMS PASTE A CARICATURE, BEIGE»
Posted on April 30, 2007 (23 comments)
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The new track from singer-songwriter is a classic slice of nostalgia-rock, Joseph's falsetto cooing "You could be my diamond ring" over bluesy, radio-ready swing. The single comes from Let It Be (out 4/17), the first of two records he's got... CONTINUE READING NEW JOSEPH ARTHUR - "DIAMOND RING" (PLUS, HOW TO MOOCH SMOKES)»
Posted on April 3, 2007 in , (8 comments)
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In April Joseph Arthur releases Let’s Just Be, the first of two albums he has in the can for this year. Haven't heard it yet, but we're optimistic. In the meantime, the singer/songwriter has been entertaining fans by posting stream-of-conscious... CONTINUE READING JOSEPH ARTHUR SHARES EROTIC POETRY»
Posted on January 11, 2007 (18 comments)
Tags: Joseph Arthur | The Twilight Singers
