An interesting article in the Sunday NYT. Read it and you can bone up on cool, new phrases - “In the East Village on any given weekend night, throngs of such Japanese crowd the restaurants known as izakaya that have sprung up on and around St. Marks Place, in an enclave sometimes called Little Tokyo. [...]
And hip hop is a big influence too - “D.J. Kaori, the host, began spinning records at the restaurant Match in SoHo in the mid-90’s. After being discovered by Funkmaster Flex of Hot 97, she graduated to D.J. jobs for celebrity parties. That translated into a recording contract for one — and now eight — [...]
Ryan Adams has updated his web site. You arcade video freaks out there may be surprised at what you find here.
While you all wait with baited breath (yeah, right) for the weekly Moose cast you can go over to Jefitoblog and grab a tasty selection of tracks from Talking Heads’ early performances. Until they get taken down of course so hurry.
The Decemberists are arguably Portland’s most popular band. Feted nationally and internationally as one of America’s best new bands, by all accounts their star is about to shine further with the release of their new CD The Crane Wife. They celebrate the CD’s release next Tuesday Oct 17th and Wed Oct 18th at the Crystal [...]
This movie might just fly. And is it ok to run a blog and simultaneously brag about your shit and take some credit? Maybe. Here’s what A. O. Scott has to say “The opening lines of “Natural’s Not in It,�? by the Gang of Four, are the first words in Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette,�? and [...]
Not sure where I stand on this but Insound the online music purveyors have launched a campaign to save the album. Not the wonderfully tactile cardboard gatefold sleeve kind of album but the full length MP3 album as download. No single tracks available in other words. Their intentions may well be pure but it smacks [...]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
It’s a heck of a busy night for music lovers in Portland. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah at the Crystal Ballroom. Ladytron at Berbatis and local one man electro band Copy at Dantes. And if that’s not enough you can catch Dirty Martini recording a live broadcast for LiveWire! at the [...]