Camille. Pic Banu Cennetoglu
More new music from the second of last week’s Pampelmoose edition of the New Music Hour on Portland’s 94.7FM. I’m on 94.7FM with resident DJ Squid every Tuesday and Thursday at 8PM. This is the show from Thursday November 13th. For more local and Northwest music you can also tune in to [...]
Another road trip, another conference and another panel. I’ve just returned from 2 days in Seattle after attending the Grammy MusicTech 08 Conference where I spoke on the Multi-Platform Branding panel [more on this later.]
This year’s keynote address was given by Ian C Rogers former VP of Music at Yahoo! and currently CEO of Topspin [...]
Hologram Buffalo
Brightblack Morning Light have a new album called Motion To Rejoin. They are new to me and I have to say thanks to Arthur Magazine for turning me on to them.
Brightblack Morning Light make music off the grid, quite literally. One half of this earthy duo, Nathan Shineywater, says that the album was [...]
The new album from Byrne & Eno, ‘Everything That Happens Will Happen Today’ is available from the duos web site today. It is offered in the now common mix of digital or as the web site says “Today (Monday here in NYC) the rest of the album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is [...]
[Update: I removed the video of Byrne discussing the album as, rather annoyingly, I was unable to undo the auto-play function.] It’s been many years since Byrne and Eno released the ground breaking album ‘My Life In The Bush of Ghosts‘ an album that was an analog precursor to the sampling habits of today’s musicians. [...]
David Bowie in persona as Ziggy
David Bowie is, or more correctly, has been one of our more chameleon-like musical performers since the late 60’s. By 1972 when Bowie had adopted a new persona, Ziggy Stardust, his performances were memorable not only for introducing a new genre, Glam Rock, but for his wildly coloured orange hair, [...]
Ryan Dombal in a review over at Pitchfork gives the hollow and twee Coldplay a 6.5 out of 10 on those now famous P4rk rankings for the band’s new album, ‘Viva La Vida.’ He also has the balls to call them a rock band [his italics]. If Coldplay can seriously be called a rock band [...]