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Monthly Archives: February 2010
“Pshappha?” Steven Schick Is Your Man
Steven Schick has performed this piece by Iannis Xenakis over 600 times, according New Yorker. 600 times. On top of that, he lectures at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Royal College of Music in London, teaches at the University of … Continue reading
Ever a Perfect Sound? Reading Greg Milner’s Recording History
If Edison could convince you that a Diamond Disc sounds like the way you have decided life sounds, he would own your worldview. He would own you.
Well yeah, it smacks of goofy dorm room manifesto talk, but it’s a central point that underlies everything going on throughout the history here, in a way that doesn’t really exist in films, novels, or painting (though certainly in photography). Using their own product as the standard for “the way life sounds,” engineers have worked to control the way we hear the rest of the world. It’s similar to the way the lab-created flavors in fast food have come to dictate a lot of people’s ideas of how real food tastes. Continue reading
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Tagged E-MU, Edison, Emile Berliner, Greg Milner, John Lomax, Leadbelly, Perfecting Sound Forever
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Afrika Bambaata + Johnny Rotten, 1984
“KA-BOOM! KA-BOOM! KA-BOOM!”
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Tagged "World Destruction", Afrika Bambaata, John Lydon, Johnny Rotten
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Todd P’s Bizzaro World 2010 SXSW — “MtyMx”
Word hit the internets over the weekend about New York DIY booker supreme Todd P’s plans to fly right over Austin, Texas this year and go straight to Mexico to throw one huge festival of his own — MtyMx. (They actual name dealie is never really spelled out — one would assume “Mighty Mexico,” right? Or maybe “Meaty Mike’s?” “Mountainous Mix?” “Minty Mackarel?)
Announcements popped up a few days ago when the toddpnyc.com page got updated with the details and a list of usual suspect artists headed up by Dan Deacon, No Age, Fucked Up, and Acid Mothers Temple. A press release did the rounds today updating the roster to include a list of more (Andrew W.K. and Telepathe among others) and a promise of additions for the rest of the month.
Say what you want about Todd P — dude never ever booked my band 😦 — but the guy has an incredible flair for mixing completely inconvenient and incredible situations. Lightning Bolt shows in Polish social clubs, a tough-to-read and obnoxiously lo-fi website, marathon shows of ten-minute acoustic sets in the middle of the night at SXSW — it’s all part of his plan to get people way outside their comfort zones. Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Acid Mothers Temple, Andrew W.K., Dan Deacon, Fucked Up, Lightning Bolt, MtyMx, No Age, SXSW, Telepathe, Todd P
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The Residents (Phoenix 2.3.10)
I talked to Hardy Fox, the band’s rep through Cryptic Corporation (and generally assumed to be part of the Fox/Flynn songwriting tandem listed with BMI on all the group’s recordings) about the tour and things in general.
The group is still playing around with new gizmos, this time employing tiny handheld video projectors (“I’m not entirely sure these things are going to last through the end of the tour, though,” he said “They’re not really road-tested.”).
As for the ever-present question of the group’s identity, Fox said he doubts anyone really cares anymore. “I don’t know what it matters,” he said. “The point in the beginning was to just be identified as a group of musicians that put out a specific kind of work. The Beatles — not John, Paul, George and Ringo.”
“In reality, most of us don’t know our heroes’ real names anyway. Who’s Bob Dylan? There’s no such person as Bob Dylan. He was invented.” Continue reading
Posted in Boston Phoenix, Musician Profiles
Tagged Bob Dylan, Hardy Fox, Talking Light Tour, The Beatles, The Residents
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“Your Revolution is Over. Condolences.” RJR Wins Suit vs. “Indie Rock Universe”
I wrote about this foldout section that Camel cigarettes placed in Rolling Stone almost three years ago after a large group of the bands (led by Fucked Up and Xiu Xiu) mentioned in the ad sued for having their names … Continue reading
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Tagged Camel cigarettes, Fucked Up, Indie Rock Universe, RJ Reynolds, Rolling Stone, Xiu Xiu
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