Music
New Jihae Video, Best Thing
Love is tresspassing and a gnarly tan line.
Christmas is for Factory Kids
November and December are the worst times to listen to the radio. For some unknown reason music programming directors feel the need to blast Christmas music for over a month. (Perhaps the power of Christ compels them.) Of course, they could do this somewhat tastefully by offering up an hour or two block per day, […]
Simulacra Within a Musical Triptych
I google a lot of things. The last thing I googled was “Simulacra.” While skimming the wiki stub for this I found a reference for “Thoughtform” which then contained a link to “Chaos Magic,” which then lead me to “Egregore.” I now realize that when I first typed in “Simulacra” what I was really looking […]
Trick Trick Wants Homosexuals to Pirate His Album
On November 4th California voters passed Prop 8 which stripped homosexuals of their right to marry. Protests and “senseless and escalating imaginary warfare between blacks and gays” followed Prop 8’s passage and the “afrohomogeddon,” or the “gay-blackolypse,” seems to be in full swing.
The most recent, debatably famous figure to take a stand in this imaginary […]
Audio Impressionism with Shugo Tokumaru
Shugo Tokumaru’s music is audio Impressionism; the listener is subject to drips and drops as opposed to the movement of comprehensive layering (which has become pervasive in “rock music” since the advent of the electric guitar). More similar to the melodic organization and embellishments of Architecture in Helsinki, than the somewhat discordant excesses of Hot […]
Larsen and Furious Jane//Also, Stream The New GnR Album
Larsen and Furious Jane have a track called Vietnamese Pool Boy that’s about a future ex-husband who walks in to find his wife cheating on him with the pool boy. The thing is that the future ex-husband’s wife is actually an illegally imported Vietnamese boy that stands about 5′ 4″ (1.62m) high and has weathered […]
New Secret Machines Video, Atomic Heels
Love is a seizure and a pair of knock off Ray Ban shades.
Secret Machines‘ S/T is out now.
Nov 26 Mexico City @ Sports Palace*
Nov 28 Guadalajara @ Arena VFG*
Nov 29 Monterrey @ Arena Monterrey*
Dec 12 Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live +
*opening for Oasis
+ co-headline with Perry Farrell
M83 & School of Seven Bells Are For Flying (Live @ the Middle East, 11.18)
School of Seven Bells
I let the guitar wash over my body. Bending notes twisted my arms and legs in “s” shapes at places they are not meant to twist like that. The brisk tapping of cymbal effects massaged my neck like stiff rain and bass shook the intestinal flora off the highest peaks of my […]
Wild Sweet Orange, Margot and the Nukes @ TT the Bear’s
At the end of Crickets Wild Sweet Orange’s drummer played an extended spell of cymbal crashes. There was nothing especially different about them, but they were loud, constant, and reverberated with energy. Preston Lovinggood turned to watch him slam the cymbals and immediately as the last cymbal crashed Mr. Lovinggood began plucking his acoustic to […]
A Harvard Professor’s Attempt to Protect BU Student From RIAA//Plus Parts & Labor
The NY Times published an AP article that documents Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson’s attempt to attack the constitutionality of Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999. The article is interesting in its own right, but given the defendant’s status as a BU grad student the story hits a little too close […]
