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Artist: Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Title: Thou Shalt Always Kill
Date: February 2, 2008
While the massive linkage of the internet can be a huge time-suck, it also has its benefits. For example, a comment thread on this article from proggit led me to today’s song of the day. Featuring an awesome videogame-y backing track 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 […]
Artists: Akron/Family
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: September 26, 2007
Yet another brilliant band that I was lucky enough to have witnessed at that amazing Katrina Benefit so many years ago, the Akron/Family were both similar and very different from my hazy memories of that night. Similar in their hug-your-fellow-man-and-sing-along-with-us hippie-esque warm-spiritedness and flashes of freak-folkish electric […]
Artists: Squirrel Nut Zippers, Firecracker Jazz Band
Venue: Highline Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: August 24, 2007
After 7 long years, in which I’d left the crowded halls of East for the crowded classes of Tech and finally for the crowded streets of NY, the Squirrel Nut Zippers were back. If not with a new album, then at least […]
Artist: Blonde Redhead
Venue: McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY
Date: August 5, 2007
Yet one more thing to love about New York: free concerts in the summer. And not free-because-we’re-inviting-no-name-and-no-talent-bands-free, we’re talking awesome groups like Camera Obscura, Battles, and Blonde Redhead. So you’d think that me being a
Huge music fan, and
Poor grad student,
I’d have made liberal use of […]
I met Philip Glass tonight.
He was a very nice man to talk to, and I remember feeling completely overwhelmed when I first started talking to him. I don’t remember exactly what I said, but I think it went something like this:
“Oh my god I’m your biggest fan and I can’t believe that…wow it’s really you, […]
Artist: Sonic Youth
Venue: McCarren Park Pool, Brooklyn, NY
Date: July 28, 2007
I imagine every generation has their musical heroes, standard-bearers, the ones who everyone in the next generation emulates, until one of those become the new heroes. Usually by this point, the original band is fading from the scene (or sometimes, is dead/disbanded), and so the […]
Artists: Battles
Venue: Studio B, Brooklyn, NY
Date: July 20, 2007
“We’re sorry, but the Battles show tonight that you bought tickets for has been moved from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. You may get a refund if you want.” No thanks, I’m a vampire in any case. Just make it worth my while, waiting for the trains, […]
Artists: Holy Fuck, Cornelius
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: May 7, 2007
During my summer at Microsoft Research (working on this), I remember one Monday afternoon frantically listening to fragments of over 100 songs in about 15 minutes, trying to choose a song to bring into the summer’s first “play-and-tell.” Organized by a recent new-hire but populated […]
Artist: Land of Talk
Title: Sea Foam
Date: April 25, 2007
Ever since that Menomena concert where I first saw Land of Talk perform, I’ve been hopelessly addicted to this song, listening to it on repeat for days on end. The song has a slow start, but it ramps up well. The chorus has some of the same […]
Artist: Sons and Daughters
Venue: Bowery Ballroom, NYC, NY
Date: April 4, 2007
“Scotland Rocks NY!” That was the billing for the night. Thankfully, we missed most of the openers and the one we did hear was terrible. But Sons and Daughters put on a better show than I had expected. There was a strong Pretty Girls vibe […]
Artist: Massive Attack
Venue: Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY
Date: October 4, 2006
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