The duo of Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet may be the perfect assimilation of vocal chops and instrumental savvy, as shown on a pair of recent albums titled Under The Covers (Shout! Factory), with volume one re-examining big hits from the ’60s and volume two tackling the ’70s. The track record for Hoffs and Sweet speaks for itself. Hoffs’ band, the Bangles, was the only member of the hallowed Paisley Underground scene to sell more than a handful of records, cracking the national top-30 no fewer than eight times from 1986-89. Sweet’s breakthrough album was 1991’s Girlfriend, which paved the way for later power-pop classics like Altered Beast and 100{e5d2c082e45b5ce38ac2ea5f0bdedb3901cc97dfa4ea5e625fd79a7c2dc9f191} Fun. The pair plans to take an acoustic version of their Under The Covers act on the road in September, but in the meantime is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all this week. Read our Q&A with them.
Susanna Hoffs: Day For Night is a 1973 film directed by Francois Truffaut. It is a “film within a film” for film lovers and just one of the foreign films I fell in love with when I was as a teenager, preferring to spend my days and nights at the art movie house than at the beach surfing or playing volleyball. Some of my other favorites are Murmur Of The Heart (Louis Malle), Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard), Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci), Woman In The Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara) and Blow Up (Michelangelo Antonioni). Video after the jump.
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