When Daniel Pinchbeck invited me to write something for Reality Sandwich, I sifted thorugh the piles of pieces I was already working on (some of which have been developed on this site) and put this together. It’s sort of an amalgamated excerpt from my book-in-progress. Here’s a polemical taste:
James Howard Kunstler uses a computer systems [...]
No Age live at MusicFestNW 08, a song and a chat from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Here we have a chat backstage at MusicFestNW 08 with Dean and Randy aka No Age in which we discuss Wire’s Pink Flag, Dean asks about Gang of Four and I don’t reply, they both discuss Portland and vegans and [...]
I had a lot of fun last night playing with Boy Eats Drum Machine at the Wonder Ballroom, my first bass outing in a while. Dat’r, The Xploding Boys and Caves were the other bands on the bill reinterpreting classic songs from The Cure and Talking Heads. Dat’r re-imagining music from Talking Heads’ Remain In [...]
The back cover of the Damaged Goods EP
On June 18 I spent an afternoon with the University of Oregon’s philosophy department class presenting a talk on Gang of Four and our place in the “creative, potentially transformative popular music pantheon.” It was fun. As a band our achievements are well known, mainly in critical circles, [...]
Portland band, Hockey, in a social networking environment.
I have some homework for those of you who like to read. Having been on many conference panels in my time, attempting to inform musicians and others about the value of using the Internet for marketing, my research led me to notice how the online social networks and [...]
It seems to me that the music industry and its advisors move at a glacial pace when it comes to embracing the internet and new business models. There have been remedies at hand for years now, I would say at least a decade, but no one in the music industry has made a serious attempt [...]
Two blog posts dropped into my inbox this week. One from Elliott Van Buskirk’s Wired blog and one from Gerd Leonhard on Digital Music News. Both posts had a similar headline [in fact it could be argued that Leonard's post was identical to Van Buskirk's which was posted 6 months earlier] - MP3 Blogs Could [...]