Disorganized thoughts about music and science and film and philosophy and literature and…
Not satisfied to merely make music that’s fantastically good, Radiohead has repeatedly ventured out of the boundaries of traditional guitar rock to other branches of music: from electronica on Kid A to jazz on Amnesiac to blues, now, on In Rainbows. But they’ve also been exploring other approaches to creating new music: like the backwards-singing […]
Artist: UNKLE
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: October 18, 2007
This is a public sevice announcement. Do not, under any circumstances, go to see UNKLE live. No matter how much the temptation of the Pitchfork 9.8 Psyence Fiction review attracts you, realize that the 9.8 belongs more to the arrogant but incredibly talented DJ Shadow than the […]
Artists: Caribou
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: October 6, 2007
The supposedly time-traveling Caribou will certainly have noticed one thing on their trip through the past playing in the present: the wonders of numbers. While frontman Dan Snaith, with his Ph. D. in Mathematics from London’s Imperial College has undoubtedly ceased to care about such mundane things […]
Artists: The Brunettes
Venue: Maxwell’s, Hoboken NJ
Date: October 3, 2007
Working in the field of vision and pattern recognition has its downsides. I start to see connections between bands that often have very little in common. Thus, by hair color I group the Brunettes with Blonde Redhead; while by band make-up and use of clarinet I group […]