http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog Thoughts without reason Sun, 11 May 2008 22:17:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Artist: Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Title: Thou Shalt Always Kill Date: February 2, 2008 [audio:Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill.mp3] 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2008/02/02/song-of-the-day-dan-le-sac-vs-scroobius-pip-thou-shalt-always-kill/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/10/21/true-genius-of-radiohead/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/10/18/concert-review-unkle/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/10/06/concert-review-caribou/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/10/03/concert-review-the-brunettes/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/09/26/concert-review-akronfamily/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/08/24/concert-review-squirrel-nut-zippers-firecracker-jazz-band/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/08/05/concert-review-blonde-redhead/ 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 ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/07/30/erinyes/ 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, ... http://www.speciouslogic.com/blog/2007/07/28/concert-review-sonic-youth/