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06.18.2008
Check out Nick Lowe, T-Bone Wolk, and Darryl Hall playing some songs on the latest episode of Darryl's webcast. Well worth your time to hear Nick's songs augmented by great Philly soul background...
05.07.2008
"I never liked any of that punk rock music. I thought it was awful." Those words sound strange coming from Nick Lowe, whose early music helped pioneer the punk and New Wave sounds of the late...
04.02.2008
Nick Lowe's "Born a Woman" from Jesus of Cool was named NPR's Song of the Day for Wednesday, April 3. Click the link below to get the song at NPR.org.
02.21.2008
This album was going to change the world, its rocking power pop and savagely smart lyrics saving a generation from the torpor of 1978's one-hit disco flashes and smotheringly produced corporate rock....
02.20.2008
The most blasphemous thing about Nick Lowe's 1978 debut solo album was not its original British title. It was the subtext running through his classic-pop and American-roots pastiches on that LP and...
02.18.2008
Nick Lowe's 1978 solo debut album, Jesus of Cool, is one of the great lost pop records of the last 30 years. It spent most of the CD era as an out-of-print rarity, despite being briefly reissued by...
02.18.2008
On the cover of his solo debut album Jesus of Cool, Nick Lowe is pictured in six rock & roll get-ups -- hippie, folkie, greasy rock & roller, new wave hipster -- giving the not-so-subtle implication...
02.18.2008
Jesus of Cool has been sadly out of print for years, and Yep Roc's reissue is impeccable. The complex digipak fold-out is beautiful, and Will Birch's liner notes do a great job of explaining the...
02.07.2008
With the reissue of Nick Lowe's Jesus Of Cool, David Dye and World Cafe will pay tribute to Lowe's long-standing career with an hour long tribute to Lowe's music. Lowe has visited World Cafe numerous...
01.31.2008
Open call for bands to join the congregation On February 19, 2008 Yep Roc will reissue Nick Lowe's legendary debut album as the Jesus of Cool: 30th Anniversary Edition complete with the original...
12.26.2007
As part of its Best of the World Cafe 2007 Encore Week, the World Cafe will rebroadcast the Nick Lowe session on Thursday, December 27th. National Public Radio's World Cafe with host David Dye...
12.18.2007
1970s pub rocker and Elvis Costello pal Nick Lowe has become something of a country gentleman in his later career, but he hasn’t lost his pop sensibilities or his acerbic wit. At My Age continues...