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Here’s a short story of hope and perhaps, good kharma. Last Friday I was riding at Mt Hood Meadows on a mountain that has received 10 and half feet of snow since around Christmas Eve. Conditions couldn’t have been better. I think I was on my fifth run of the day when my iPhone rang [...]

Modeselektor bring us a dark, bass-thumping remix of Hold On [or is that Holdon? Different titles appear on the 'net] by their friends Apparat. You can buy this mix plus others here.
Apparat feat. Raz Ohara – Hold On [MP3]
Related Post: Modeselektor and Thom Yorke

A band by way of London, Paris and Berlin on paper sounds so Euro-faux and pretentious but in the case of Appaloosa, whose singer Anne Laure sounds like an updated Nico, that statement is not true. Joined by song writing partner Max Krefeld they offer up a mixture of retro Euro-pop, dance music and on [...]

A new article by Arthur Magazine editor Jay Babcock insists that the digital age is not only killing the music industry, but is killing music itself. Since time immemorial — before Thomas Edison recorded “Mary Had Little Lamb,” of course — three things were necessary and sufficient for music to exist: a performer, a listener, [...]

The former Talking Heads’ front man talks to Radiohead’s Thom Yorke about the thinking behind the release of In Rainbows. It’s a shame that this is not an in-depth interview as the pickings are very slim. A synopsis – Radiohead’s managers came up with the idea. The band embraced it based on the perceived value [...]

Here’s the story on She Keeps Bees and why they appear here on the Moose. An envelope leaves Brooklyn postmarked November 29th. It’s addressed to Holocene Music, att: music submissions and the address is the Nemo Design/Moose address because Scott and Matt who ran Holocene Music had an office here at Nemo Design. These days [...]

I spent the day and night of December 22nd at the Columbia Gorge Hotel in Hood River, Oregon. The occasion was the wedding of the Dandy Warhols leader, Courtney Taylor and his sweetheart, Lockett Albritton. As you can see in the picture I took, Courtney and his male band mates were dressed in hand-tailored outfits [...]

Episode 4 has some excellent zombie action. I’ll leave it at that. Check out episode 4, and if you haven’t seen the first 3 check those out as well.
See the wasteland here.
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Josh k