Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
You've probably never heard of Thomas Frank. He's a "real" journalist--I think. I read him in the WSJ . He also writes for Huff and Puff and NYT, all their opinion all the time. He's really pissed at Glenn Beck, who has a fatter subscription list than the NYT. It's that red phone shtick-- doesn't set well with him, because it's only for the White House and not for Frank's progressive sources....
Vulture (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Toronto punk band Fucked Up plays music that’s somewhere between a temper tantrum and a meth-induced panic attack: warp-speed tempos, roaring vocals, and intricate, multilayered melodies. The last year has been a breathless one for the group, including their first album with Matador, The Chemistry of Common Life ; tours of Japan and China; a rave in the New York Times and the cover of NME...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Leaping dogs, space-age uniforms, cartoon animals. Who the hell is designing record sleeves these days? GCSE art students? When American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert released his album For Your Entertainment last week, its artwork was met with such widespread derision that he was forced to defend it on Twitter. It was "deliberately campy" , Lambert pointed out, in case the airbrushed, Athena-poster...
Dial-a-Phone (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are many different types of art that are created which use cell phones as the subject. There are paintings of mobile phones, cell phone sculptures, interactive mobile phone exhibits and mobile movies. There are also songs that mention cell phones in their lyrics. This type of art often gets overlooked. Perhaps that’s because there’s not [...]
Create Digital Music (Free subscription) | yesterday
Daedelus joins me for a discussion on performance controllers, as part of an artist lineup ranging from dub pioneer Scientist to beatbox legend Kid Beyond and… a lot of other folks, too. Photo (CC) musiclikedirt. It’s music production. It’s … lasers. If you’re in the LA area, you’ll want to be there. If not, let us [...]
XO's Middle Eight (Free subscription) | yesterday
The best day of 2002? July 27, when Jasper came to live with me. Another fucked up year. Seriously, it was very hard to live in DC at this time. We'd had 9/11, followed by ridiculous anthrax attacks and then, as a final insult, we had a sniper killing people randomly for several months. Whatever. Rather than linger on the drama, I thought this week I'd just comment on the music that made my 2002 list...
Ghost Robot News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Ghost Robot is pleased to announce the addition of director Adam Levite to its roster of versatile, creative talent. Levite is an award-winning creative director, commercial and music video director, designer and art director. His client list includes Ford, MTV, Rockband 2, Scifi, Burton Snowboards, New Line Pictures, and musical artists such as Beck, Interpol, The...
LAist (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Mia Doi Todd will be performing tonight at the Bootleg Theater | Photo by B+ via Mia Doi Todd's Myspace Our Pick: Mia Doi Todd, Bone Gunn, The Good Listeners, Paul Livingston @ Bootleg Theater Tonight legendary Boston-bred alternative rock outfit the Pixies will be taking on a three-night stint at the Hollywood Palladium with local noise-infused rockers No Age (LAist Review , #2 ) in tow. Equally...
Notes from a Different Kitchen (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip How can you not be in love with this chica when you see photos of her looking like this ?! Related: Beck, Beastie Boys , and Santigold remix Norah Jones . [Pitchfork] [video via TSS ]
DUMMY (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sisterworld is their new album, out in good old early 2010. It'll be called SIsterworld, and it was recorded in LA. As as already been round the blogs about a hundred times, there's a site called thesisterworld.com which is something to do with it, which is a mildly diverting way to spend a few minutes, but it's probably best to rely on people like us to check it regularly, rather than clicking back...
Popbytes (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
» someone is permanently thanking bea arthur for being a friend! urlesque « » rihanna 'woke up as britney spears' after chris brown attack! popeater « » exclusive clips from shauna sands' sex tape (site NSFW) drunken stepfather « » serial dater kate hudson is convinced she has men all figured out wonderwall « » chris martin cheated on gwyneth paltrow...
Consequence of Sound (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
There's just something about the west coast that seems to bring out the psychedelic in musicians.
Urban Outfitters - RSS (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Main Street: An Exhibition of New Video Art and Animation is on view Gallery Space at Space 15 Twenty in Los Angeles through December 6. Here, a preview of the artists' work.
CBC Radio 3 (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Rufus Wainwright & The Arcade Fire (x2) make Paste's 50 Best Albums of Decade list. Stereogum Get the tracklisting for John K. Sampson's new solo album City Route 85 . CMJ Bishop Allen announce new video + Vancouver show. Stereogum Listen to Beck & Charlotte Gainsbourgh cover "Heaven Can Wait". The Playlist [Photo: Rufus Wainwright @ the Ottawa Folk Festival, submitted by Roy Layer...
Blurred Clarity (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I love music, even more perhaps than I love acting but I've actually not been to that many gigs, I've calculated around 47 since my first in 1987. Having said that, to create a list of the very best is a lot harder than I at first thought and I need to reserve a special mention for my first ever gig. It was Spear of Destiny , an 80's post-punk band with a Nazi name that were actually quite left-wing....
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