Danny Choo is a self propelled hype machine. How does one generate 3 million UNIQUE visitors in 1 month?! Looks like the secret is deftly mixing the pop culture past, the pop tech future, and his love for the international language of dance.
Tokyo Dance Trooper
Tokyo Dance Trooper in Shibuya
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David Gutowski is the man behind the music blog Largehearted Boy. He recently contacted me to ask if I would be interested in submitting my thoughts in writing for a new area of his blog entitled Why Obama. It is a series of guest essays by musicians and authors, where they share their support for [...]
Photo: Andrew Henderson/The New York Times
For all you budding concert and tour promoters out there here’s a great article on the trials and tribulations of Sean Carlson and his cross-country tour, the Fuck Yeah Tour, which wrapped up recently. It ain’t easy but it sure is fun….
Pendleton Rock Camp 2008 Video Scenes from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Another day, another dollar. Pendleton Rock Camp just wrapped day 2. This is a video of the kids playing in their various group set ups with The Thermals “Your Future” dubbed to the footage.
Day 2 and the kids are still turning up in droves so we must all be doing the right thing. Tonight some of them will perform downtown and I’m looking forward to it. Casey and I had a class this morning on rock journalism and had the budding rock critics write a review of a [...]
Another PDX POP NOW! is ‘in the can’. Once again it came, it saw, it kicked our ass.
I took some behind the scenes pics on Saturday and Sunday. Also, here’s a group of ‘POP’ pics I put together (for you, baby), including the one above of Fist Fite’s Jonnie Monroe. Aw Yeah. [...]
The Road Trip to Pendleton’s Rock Camp from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Road trip! A video of my journey through the Columbia Gorge to Pendleton in Eastern Oregon. Soundtrack by Glass Candy and Mauxuam.
This week the Third Annual Pendleton Rock Camp takes place. It’s a week-long event and I am out here in Eastern Oregon volunteering along with members of Point Juncture, WA, Laura Gibson, Casey Jarman, Paul Collins of Beirut and many more. It’s free for the kids and they love it. This morning, Day 1, I [...]