Tonight (Saturday kids) get over to the Doug Fir for a night of head nodding and dancing as you groove to Boy Eats Drum Machine. Led by Jon Ragel BEDM is a wonderful mix of turntables, drum machines, synthesizers, found sounds and vocals. Currently at work on their new album their first one, Pleasure, is [...]
First there was the Music Genome Project which begat Pandora. Now Musicovery. Play with this and see if it really brings you the best of what you want in music discovery. I’m doubtful that algorithms are really the best way to discover music. Musicovery’s lo-fi access is free but you have to pay for hi-fi…..that [...]
David Byrne has an exhibition of his latest work at the Pace Macgill Gallery in NYC. It ends soon, hurry up. Also check out his thoughts on the results of the mid-term elections… “I sense that the balance of power in the house and senate and the rollback of the neocon agenda is only part [...]
Growing up I loved grabbing the New Musical Express each week and reading the singles reviews. Singles back then were 45 RPM 7″ vinyl records and like today they were aimed at the charts; radio and the TV show Top of the Pops were the two big ones to crack. They were also aimed at [...]
A rogue cinematic player steeped in the art of ambiguity - so says A. O. Scott. More.
So just think - you’ve traveled hundreds of miles home to hang with the family, struggling through crowded airports or choked highways. All the relatives are here. The distance that you put between these people has now evaporated and here you are shaking hands with your sister’s latest boyfriend while a man tries to carve [...]
Michael Richards, Kramer of Seinfeld fame, lost it completely last Friday at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood. A very un-funny tirade of racist slurs. It makes you wonder, have these guys ever heard of cell phones that record video and a little thing like the Interweb? The video of his outburst is here but [...]
It seems the blogosphere won out again today. I did my bit personally; not in this blog but by writing emails to Borders, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Fox etc and the only ones who replied were Amazon who told me that they would sell the book regardless of the furor as they didn’t believe in [...]