Shugo Tokumaru, the Japanese noise-pop purveyor, will release a new album ‘Exit’ stateside on September 2nd, 2008. That might seem a ways off so to help you with the wait here’s a cut from the album, ‘Parachute,’ that shows off the organic/electronic elements of Tokumaru’s work – almost-latin rhythms, dueling acoustic guitars, xylophone and hand [...]
Another one in, hopefully, a long line of future electronic submissions, i.e. no brown package in the mail. The Moose, single-handedly saving trees one post at a time. Computer Vs Banjo’s debut CD is out now. Official site and their MySpace. Computer Vs Banjo – Magazine Queen (Ninja Simone Remix)
01. Au Revoir Simone “Oh! You Pretty Things†02. Heartbreak “Loving The Alien†03. Kelley Polar “Magic Dance†04. Leo Minor “Ashes To Ashes†05. Carl Craig Presents Zoos of Berlin “Looking For Water†06. Drew Brown “Sweet Thing†07. Matthew Dear “Sound & Vision†08. Susumu Yokota “Golden Years†09. The Emperor Machine “Repetition” [...]
The Tower of Babel Cities live and breathe. As I wrote in a post last week on Social Media, cities are no more artificial [technological] than the hives of bees. As we go about our daily lives [mostly unconsciously,] we psycho-drift from block to block through neighborhoods that we know well, in amongst communities that [...]
Sad news today. Bo Diddley, a rock and roll pioneer who helped transition blues to rock, passed away at his home in Florida, he was 79.
Forget about the iPhone G3, this year’s gadget of the year is what I like to call the ‘scratchula‘. Not only does it’s metallic chrome flat surface flip burgers (or veggie burgers) like a normal spatula, it also has jagged sides for scratching and scraping the grill AND a lil’ slot for popping the tops [...]
About twice a year I find myself at a random party overhearing the same conversation: “What happened to good song writing? What happened to the song?” It’s at that point names like Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach, or Roy Orbison appear and I head back to the keg. I mean, how the hell can any current [...]
Vacuum State of the Art Conference and Show May 24th – 26th, Vancouver, WA. As the name implies what we have here is a show that celebrates the vacuum tube driven amps over their solid state second cousins. [Audiofiles will get that last part.] I’m a supporter, give me a record deck and a tube [...]
