pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

Portland bands have to pay a third party, Sonicbids, to apply for a slot at this year’s MusicFestNW [this may have been the case last year too.] You’d think after the debacle with the CMJ conference where folks paid Sonicbids to enter the lottery and apparently no one from CMJ bothered to listen to the [...]

I became a fan of Australia’s Cut Copy through their online mix tapes which have been made available here and there. Their album Bright Like Neon Love came out in 2004 and this March you can now get Lights and Music which is a remix ep by the look of it. Visit the Cut Copy [...]

Pharrell at the Fader Mag Party, SXSW 2008. Photo Nilina Mason-Campbell
I didn’t need to attend any of the music panels at SXSW this year to feel the malaise that is sweeping the music business. One five minute trek through the trade show proved to me everything that I already know - the cornerstone of this [...]

Lou Reed and Moby at SXSW 2008. Photo Nilina Mason-Campbell
So we have Van Morrison and REM complaining about new technology and now here’s the one person who I would have thought knows better using his keynote speech at SXSW to point out that he’s obviously forgotten that when he was growing up he listened to [...]

There’s nothing like daddy berating you from the stage….This from the NYT blogs - “Sometimes you can mark a generation gap with gizmos. At any SXSW event, a significant part of the audience is texting, taking digital pictures, or talking on a cell phone. It bothered rock elders like Van Morrison and R.E.M., who complained [...]

Justice at SXSW 2008. Photo Nilina Mason-Campbell
If I had half the energy and the guest list grabbing ability of Nilina we’d have twice the content here at the Moose. Hit up her Flickr site for more SXSW photo love….
Justice - Genesis

Well hell…this was the best yet, we waited all day but Clipse finally brought what had been missing…authenticity, no BS straight ahead good old fashioned rock the party…but still the white folks don’t dance, I don’t get it. Still…the other great act on the bill today was Cut Copy and I have video of their [...]