Last month, the increasingly elusive avant-garde master Jim O'Rourke, now rocking an impressive crazy-old-man beard, played a few songs for onlookers at Dyson Lab Ginza, in his adopted hometown of…   Read Story »

Somehow the experimental legend, vocal Tony Conrad/John Fahey supporter, onetime Sonic Youther, and usually extremely tasteful Jim O'Rourke placed his classic-in-certain-quarters Eureka tune "Prelude…   Read Story »

Jim O'Rourke's Burt Bacharach tribute album is only out in Japan. But this cover of "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me" made it to YouTube, where it can join the hundreds of other covers…   Read Story »

Burt Bacharach is both one of the most accomplished and beloved songwriters in pop music and this guy. This April, O'Rourke will release a far more dignified tribute to Bacharach titled All Kinds of…   Read Story »

The bra commercial, the urban mom video cameo, popping up as an anonymous model on a street-style blog, and now a photo for Giorgio Armani's United Artist campaign for W mag: Joanna Newsom's in the…   Read Story »

The noise wrangler and sometime pop balladeer who brought Wilco and Sonic Youth to new creative peaks before decamping to Japan returns to song-based solo material with Visitors (Drag City, 9/8).…   Read Story »