Pampelmoose by Dave Allen of Gang of Four — music . media . web. culture

Ahead of PiL’s UK tour, frontman John Lydon scratches his nuts and surveys the pop-cultural landscape – Lady Gaga, Vampire Weekend, Jay-Z and all

DIY is now a way to allow a more intimate relationship with a increasingly fickle audience in the context of a shrinking record industry

The American Psycho author’s appetite for pop culture ensures his work influences music as much as literature

I hate to say it, but every time I have an idea or two about how musicians might be able to embrace the web to further their career, it’s always the musicians themselves who write in with the most negative comments. This suggests to me that there is a distinct lack of ideas amongst musicians [...]

Ok Portland, I’m doing a DJ set at the Beaux-Arts Ball at Portland Art Museum this Saturday night, February 6th. Proceeds from the show will benefit education programs at the Portland Art Museum. Other than myself, entertainment is provided by Morningwood and Lily Verlaine. For tickets and information click here.

On David Foster Wallace, the Social Web and How We Watch Now First, Happy New Year to all of this blog’s readers. Second, I am going to sorely test your patience. For just over four years I have been posting here about the state of the music industry, especially its ridiculous attempts to understand how [...]

Here’s the line up so far for this year’s MusicFestNW Sunny Day Real Estate – Explosions in the Sky – Girl Talk – Bad Brains – The Get Up Kids – Will Sheff (of Okkervil River) – Dirty Three – Monotonix – Mudhoney – Frightened Rabbit – The Twilight Sad -Dillinger Four – Swollen Members [...]

Ethos Student Bands – Friday @ Backspace (115 NW 5th) Ethos Music Center is a wonderful nonprofit that gives affordable music lessons, holds afterschool music programs in local elementary and high schools around the city, and does incredible work keeping music in the hearts and hands of young people. This concert is an end of [...]