Mark Lanegan
Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan Team to Cover Bob Dylan’s ‘Girl From the North Country’
Greg Dulli’s song “A Ghost,” taken from his 2020 solo LP Random Desire, will be released on a blue vinyl 7″ this Saturday (Aug. 29) for Record Store Day, with a new B-side cover of Bob Dylan’s “Girl From The North Country” featuring long-time collaborator Mark Lanegan. Listen to the song below. [embedded content] Dulli, frontman of the Afghan Whigs, has teamed with Lanegan, formerly of Screaming Trees, for numerous projects, including the Twilight Singers and the Gutter Twins. Recently, we caught up with Lanegan, who had a lot to say about his new album, his autobiography and technology. He also covered Galaxie 5000’s “Summertime” with Dylan Carlson. As for Dulli, we spoke with him earlier this year about his solo album and he recently gave us his prediction for the 2020 bas...
Mark Lanegan and Dylan Carlson Collab on Cover of Galaxie 500’s ‘Summertime’
Screaming Trees alum Mark Lanegan and Earth singer/guitarist Dylan Carlson dropped their take on “Summertime” as part of the ongoing Galaxie 500 series, a video project of 20 bands covering songs from the short-lived but influential trio that formed in the late ’80s. The initial plan was a concert of Galaxie 500 covers in conjunction with Record Store Day, but it was scuttled due to the pandemic. In a statement from Los Angeles, Mark Lanegan states: “Dylan Carlson and I giving the garage treatment to one of my favorite songs by one of the all-time great bands.” In the clip, Lanegan sings and plays tambourine, while Carlson is on guitar. The song is from Galaxie 500’s third and final album, 1990’s This is Our Music. Other artists participating in the Galaxie 500 series i...
Thurston Moore, Mark Lanegan, Real Estate and More to Cover Galaxie 500 in New Series
Thurston Moore, Mark Lanegan, Real Estate and more are paying homage to Galaxie 500 with a new cover series. The new song project coincides and celebrates the vinyl reissue of their live LP, Copenhagen, for Record Store Day and the special release of a limited-edition Dogfish Head Galaxie 500 beer. The project has been curated by David Newgarden, WFMU radio director in the ’80s/’90s as well as longtime manager of Guided By Voices and Yoko Ono. Other participants include Dylan Carlson (with Lanegan), Kiwi Jr, Deadbeat Beat, Rachel Haden, Hamilton (British Sea Power), Jeanines, Calvin Johnson, Alan Licht & Rebecca Odes (Love Child), Barbara Manning, Mark & Evelyn (Mark Robinson of Unrest, Evelyn Hurley of Blast Off Country Style), Glenn Mercer (of the Feelies), Mercury Re...
Mark Lanegan and Cold Cave Cover Joy Division in Honor of Ian Curtis
Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis died 40 years ago today, and musicians and music publications and organizations of all stripes have been unveiling tributes throughout the day; here’s ours. Headstock, a music festival with a focus on mental health, livestreamed a tribute show called Moving Through the Silence earlier today, which featured performances from Brandon Flowers, Elbow and Kodaline performing “Love Will Tear Us Apart” with an orchestra. Mark Lanegan, whom SPIN recently had a third-eye-opening conversation with, is no stranger to surprising collaborations, from Isobel Campbell of Belle & Sebastian to Queens of the Stone Age. But in Curtis’ honor, he teamed up with the very Joy Division-indebted darkwave influencees Cold Cave on a faithful and fuzzed-up rendition of “Isolation,...
Mark Lanegan Walks Back Liam Gallagher Critique: ‘He’s Kind of an Eccentric Old Uncle’
Last week, a decades-old feud between Mark Lanegan and Liam Gallagher that stemmed from an Oasis-Screaming Trees tour was reignited over a passage in the ex-Screaming Trees singer’s memoir. Now, Lanegan seems to be extending the proverbial olive branch. “[The book] doesn’t reflect how I actually feel about [Gallagher] now,” Lanegan said to PA (via Metro). “I see his clips on Twitter now and it makes me laugh, he’s kind of an eccentric old uncle.” In his book, Lanegan also called Gallagher “an obvious poser, a playground bully. Like all bullies, he was also a total pussy.” While the two were set to have a fistfight, it never happened. However, Gallagher wanted to share his side of the story and shared his thoughts on Twitter last week (May 4). “Mark lannegn here’s how I saw it I asked you y...
Screaming Trees’ Gary Lee Conner Calls Mark Lanegan’s Memoir ‘Vicious and Petty’
Mark Lanegan published his memoir Sing Backwards and Weep last month, and to put it bluntly, it’s been pissing people off. Aside from reigniting a 24-year-old feud with Oasis’ Liam Gallagher, the former Screaming Trees frontman also took some swings at his old bandmates. Earlier this week, the band’s guitarist Gary Lee Conner expressed his thoughts about the book in a lengthy Facebook post. After admitting that the band didn’t “get along like friends and sometimes it felt like we were enemies,” Conner couldn’t deny their musical chemistry. “Mark took the songs Van and I wrote and helped elevate them lyrically and vocally to a higher level,” he wrote. However, while he’s able to take the higher road, Conner was disappointed with Lanegan’s recount of his time in Screaming Trees — a...
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