Review of Modeselektor at Club 222, San Francisco

"...At one point in American history — when Club 222 was
called “The Black Hawk” and filled an adjacent parking lot
in addition to the current space — Miles Davis recorded
an album here. Across the street, the famous Hyde Street
Studio looms like the past; the scent of the Digital
Underground, Dead Kennedys, even Tony! Toni! Toné!
still hangs in the air. Even in the Tenderloin, San
Francisco never fails to dazzle with relics of its rich history
of cool..."

from Tiny Mix Tapes 10.18.2007
William Miller's Great Disappointment  "...Fortunately,
early Adventist Hiram Edson had a vision on October
23. It explained that the previous day was actually
when Jesus began his final "investigative judgment" to
determine who would be eligible for salvation. This
reinterpretation gave rise to the 15 million-strong
Seventh-day Adventist Church (not to mention to some
delicious innovations in vegetarian cuisine)..."

from Yahoo! 11.23.2007
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Sailing the Seas of Free

"...To celebrate Earth Day last week, we added new
sites to the Freecycling and Free Stuff areas of the
Yahoo! Directory. And let us tell you, after experiencing
just a little of what our Bay Area community has to give,
we're hooked on freesailing!..."

from Yahoo! 04.29.2008
J. Gatsby -- The Original Gangsta?

"...After being born into a hard-working Irish Catholic
family, named after his famous relative, and then
educated at fine, old, private academies, it's no
wonder that Fitzgerald romanticized the family- and
fancy-free, philosophizing flappers, philanderers, and
bootleggers of his day. The perceived freedom and
bacchic revelry afforded to the lawless have long been
envied by the bow-tie wearing rest of us. ..."

from Yahoo! 04.10.2008
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How Does One Remember Gary Glitter? Remember
Him That Way

"...Given Glitter's sordid and horrifying legal troubles, it
almost seems like the title of his 1974 hit song
"Remember Me This Way" was a plea from his future self
to his fans at that time. On a YouTube page featuring that
song's music video, commenter eggy541 acknowledges
the unsettling duality of Glitter's media persona: "Gary
Glitter will always be the king of glam regardless of who
Paul Gadd turned out to be."!..."

from Yahoo! 05.08.2008
The Mighty Moog Plays On

"...Before the raves, the clubs, the block rockin' beats, the
cars that go boom, and the all-too-timely ecstasy-PSA
episode of Dawson's Creek, there was a teenager in
1950s Queens who wanted to turn electricity into
music...."

from Yahoo! 05.23.2008
DB Cooper: One of the Last Great American Outlaws

"...In these dark days of school shootings, terrorism, and
the like, we sometimes forget that there was a time when
certain outlaws were almost like heroes, rebelling
against mainstream culture and the status quo. In 1971,
D.B. Cooper (a.k.a. Dan Cooper) stuck it to the man when
he hijacked an airplane with a nothing but a clip-on tie
and a bomb story...."

from Yahoo! 05.08.2008
The Rise of the Social Music Networks

"...Like many other humans equipped with a heart, soul,
and ears, I spend several hours of every day using music
to stimulate and interact with my higher consciousness.
Between 1994 and 2003, my music life severed its
analog roots and moved almost entirely onto my PC.
Now, Web 2.0 is relocating music again -- this time to my
web browser, where I can listen to, discover, discuss,
label, share, store, broadcast, and even make music
right inside Firefox, at home or remotely..."

from Yahoo! 07.07.2008
Review of the Treasure Island Music Festival 2008

"...There’s really no way to describe the bass — so huge, so immersive. Like enormous, blubberous whales falling
from the sky; thousands of them cascading down on so many holy, hopeful, tiny dancers. We drown in bass, we are
redeemed in bass. I soak in bass and my wounds are healed. Suddenly the Marshall cabs burst in light! They’re lit
from the inside!! Everyone goes crazy. The shadows of a thousand hands dance on the white gauze stage
curtains...." from Tiny Mix Tapes

5 August 2008

Band in a Browser



"...When I awoke from my vision, I considered the Virtual Rhythmicon: an online version of Léon
Theremin's strange and ungainly 1931 electronic instrument...." from Yahoo!



20 October 2008
Review of Amy Ray: Didn't It Feel Kinder

"...And throughout Didn’t It Feel Kinder’s diverse collection of
snapshots, old letters, and earnest diatribes, the gentleness, the
shimmering brilliance of Amy Ray’s hopeful message of
togetherness—on that farm in Georgia with friends and family,
laughing and playing music—brings to light a big, big love and
renders null the demonizing effects of misguided politicos who
seem to want to make the sacred, holy experiences of individuals
and groups of individuals into something abstract, non-human,
and therefore justifiably destroyable for the sake of…what? The
family? But wait, the family’s right here. Amy Ray is singing about
it. ..." read more at Popmatters 5 August 2008
Review of J. Mascis: J + Friends Sing + Chant for Amma

"...These days, it’s so hard to use terms like “God”, “the
soul”, and “divine ecstasy” unironically when we are still
trying to forgive spiritual movements in general, after we
were tricked into thinking that Christianity was about love
and freedom when it was really about pseudo-
governmental oppression. But frankly, in these godless, pre-
apocalyptic times, we need god, the soul, and divine
ecstasy more than ever..." read more at PopMatters 1
August 08
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