Ok, more video worth looking at and listening to. The listening part is the issue for me as at the moment I have audio glitches with the Beck and Flaming Lips footage but all will be resolved I’m sure. So here’s The Shins who seemed to be having a lot of fun proving that live [...]
Wading through the video I realized that minorities were, well, in the minority at this festival so in a nod at least to the world of hip hop I have cut a piece with my dog Logan, as in my four legged friend Logan, rocking to Immortal Technique. Then we roll on down the hill [...]
I started to go through and render all of my footage from the weekend and realized that I have 3 hours of content to wade through. Not only that, some of it is quite compelling even if the sound quality is a little off. I was going to begin this series chronologically but have now [...]
The Gorge from backstage…
There is probably no better setting for a music festival than the Gorge in Washington. This year’s Sasquatch Music Festival managed to deliver a wide variety of music over three days to an audience of 20,000 each day. Highlights for me were The Shins, Beck, Flaming Lips and Queens of the Stone [...]
Memorial Day, checking the rock at the Sasquatch Music Festival. Normal service will return Tuesday.
In the culture wars nothing is more contentious than copyright use/infringement, and no one is spending more time and effort on pressing its case than the Recording Industry Association of America, aka the RIAA. The device above, the Samsung Helix is a tiny, $400 radio that gives you access to satellite radio in the car [...]
Talking Head’s David Byrne has some interesting thoughts about the link between album cover art and the listener’s idea that it is somehow representative of the music it envelops. Read his blog here.
Interestingly he and Brian Eno are offering the following to remixers - “In keeping with the spirit of the original album, Brian and [...]
The internet throws up a fabulous amount of garbage, more than your average landfill on most days. Occasionally though, there are diamonds in the rough. Today I offer a two-choice video viewing opportunity - if you are wondering whether Kate Moss’s drug adventures resulted in her losing her marbles entirely then this video may [...]