Patrick Wolf has an unusually strong appeal to two distinct demographics: highbrow actresses and fans of S&M bondage outfits. (Actually, those demographics really aren't that distinct. Highbrow actresses are fetishists of the highest order for all you know. Have you... CONTINUE READING NEW PATRICK WOLF VIDEO - "DAMARIS"»
Posted on November 11, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Laura Marling | Patrick Wolf
If you thought Patrick Wolf's S&M-laced "Vulture" video was surprising, sit down before watching this clip of the glamor-puss losing his shit at the C/O Pop Festival in Cologne, Germany. Basically someone turned off his PA before he was ready... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF LOSES HIS SHIT IN GERMANY»
Posted on August 14, 2009 in (75 comments)
Tags: of Montreal | Patrick Wolf
When Patrick came by for a Progress Report, he told us his new album The Bachelor was inspired by a depressing but creatively fruitful tour and was substantially composed in his head while thinking about sex, and the world, and... CONTINUE READING NEW PATRICK WOLF VIDEO - "HARD TIMES"»
Posted on May 28, 2009 in (9 comments)
Tags: Backwards Clock Society | Billy Corgan | Deftones | Leeds | Patrick Wolf
After seeing Patrick's bare ass paired with the sexed-up synths in the "Vulture" video, and after seeing these pics from Heaven, you probably wouldn't expect last night's photo spread from photographer Natasha Ryan to look so ... intimate? Wholesome, even.... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF @ LE POISSON ROUGE, NYC 5/6/09»
Posted on May 7, 2009 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Aaron Dessner | Green Man Festival | Grizzly Bear | Patrick Wolf | The National
NAME: Patrick Wolf PROGRESS REPORT: Releasing his fourth album, The Bachelor (Bloody Chamber Music), on June 1. Patrick Wolf is 6'4", has a shock of white-blond hair and a penchant for avant-garde fashion, Elizabethan music, and baroque set design. So... CONTINUE READING PROGRESS REPORT: PATRICK WOLF»
Posted on March 19, 2009 in , , (13 comments)
Tags: Dirty Projectors | Patrick Wolf | The Black Keys | Tobias Doppelganger
Patrick Wolf's forthcoming The Bachelor LP is high on our radar, and not just because it was financed by his fans or because Tilda Swinton guests. Though those are certainly two facts that are hard to forget. We may also... CONTINUE READING NEW PATRICK WOLF VIDEO - "VULTURE"»
Posted on March 18, 2009 in (63 comments)
Tags: All Points West | Coldplay | Patrick Wolf | The Avett Brothers
Last week we showed you images from Patrick Wolf's 3/12 show at London's Heaven. The second to last song he performed was a new one, "Vulture," which we mentioned was The Bachelor's lead single and something you should expect to... CONTINUE READING NEW PATRICK WOLF - "VULTURE"»
Posted on March 16, 2009 (10 comments)
Tags: Patrick Wolf | Radiohead | Theophilus London | Thom Yorke
After a good run on The Magic Position which netted one fake live-retirement and one junkie-drummer ouster, Patrick Wolf has reemerged from his glam cocoon with two albums worth of material (featuring a Tilda Swinton guest spot), hair gone Lily... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF @ HEAVEN, LONDON 3/12/09»
Posted on March 13, 2009 in , (6 comments)
Tags: Clipse | Kanye West | Patrick Wolf | Vampire Weekend
Patrick Wolf is not a conventional artist, so it comes as no surprise that Scottish actress Tilda Swinton (Burn After Reading, Benjamin Button, other movies without Brad Pitt) appears all over his forthcoming album. Just kidding, that is a big... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF ENLISTS TILDA SWINTON IN FAN-FUNDED BATTLE»
Posted on January 12, 2009 in (4 comments)
Tags: Alec Empire | Orbital | Patrick Wolf | Reading | Tilda Swinton
In a MySpace blog post this weekend, Patrick Wolf offered up plans for his follow-ups to last year's The Magic Position LP: i have to tell you, i have two albums coming out soon.... think, smashing pumpkins, kate bush, im... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF READIES TWO NEW ALBUMS»
Posted on September 2, 2008 (0 comments)
Tags: Patrick Wolf | The National
So that whole "My final concert will be this November" thing was a hoax, or maybe just a young man coming to terms with the endless scrutiny of slow-building stardom. Anyway, Wolf saved saved this glitchy, theatrical gem from the... CONTINUE READING NEW PATRICK WOLF - "THE MARRIAGE"»
Posted on May 23, 2007 (7 comments)
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Although this year has been the best in young Wolf's year to date, sweeping NYC off its feet and inspiring the NYT to cite LiveJournal entries, it appears there was deeper significance to Patrick's drummer-bashing tantrum, and that at 23,... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF ANNOUNCES HIS FINAL SHOW»
Posted on April 23, 2007 (27 comments)
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Patrick Wolf's three-show sweep of NYC last weekend made quite an impression: upon us, upon his adoring NYC audiences, and upon his ex-lover/drummer's skull bone. The New York Times' weekend in Pat recap points to this LiveJournal review for the... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF IS A DRAMA QUEEN, LITERALLY PLAYS THE CRASH CYMBAL»
Posted on April 10, 2007 (20 comments)
Tags: Patrick Wolf
While Bruce Springsteen was busy making a surprise appearance at the tribute to Bruce Springsteen, we were freezing our sweet cheeks off in line to see Stereofave Patrick Wolf at Hiro Ballroom last night. $45 on four drinks and an... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF @ HIRO BALLROOM, NYC 4/5/07»
Posted on April 6, 2007 in (6 comments)
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We know, the chemistry was anything but combustible during P. Wolf's Prince-cover duet with Charlotte Church, but that shouldn't dissuade you NYCers (and those within striking distance) from seeing young Patrick give his excellent Magic Position tunes their American debut... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF ASSUMES THE MAGIC POSITION IN NYC»
Posted on March 28, 2007 in (2 comments)
Tags: Patrick Wolf | The Cloud Room
Much as we love most things Patrick, most of these Charlotte Church Show cover duet sessions are just plain awkward. And we'd say the same for this take on "When Doves Cry," but at least he's less trashed than was... CONTINUE READING PATRICK WOLF, CHARLOTTE CHURCH COVER PRINCE»
Posted on March 26, 2007 in (8 comments)
Tags: Charlotte Church | Patrick Wolf
Still loving everything about the glammed up decadence of young Wolf's The Magic Position LP, and not at all surprised at this clip's technicolor sets and song-and-dance act. How else could you possibly treat a song so irresistibly camp? Bonus... CONTINUE READING NEW PATRICK WOLF VIDEO - "THE MAGIC POSITION"»
Posted on March 6, 2007 in (19 comments)
Tags: Patrick Wolf
Loving everything about precocious pop prodigy Patrick Wolf's forthcoming, third record The Magic Position, starting with the rumbling toms and violins of "Overture" right through the bittersweet, cadential symphony of "Finale." Along the way, Patrick spikes tunes with a collage... CONTINUE READING NEW PATRICK WOLF - "THE MAGIC POSITION"»
Posted on February 27, 2007 in (23 comments)
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