Sunday, June 19, 2005

DJ Spooky spins, but nobody dances

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Spooky spun at the Drake on Saturday night. True to form, he wasn't afraid to spin anything from Blondie to "Jump Around" to T...
Saturday, June 18, 2005

METAL - Doom, drone, cabaret, and all that

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Yes, metal has played a small but key role in the 2005 version of Being Me. The fires of BLACK HORRIBLE DEATH were stoked last year, as I fi...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

US #1's

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What a strange year it's been. I've missed the days of songs remaining in the top spot for only two weeks at a time, the days when f...
Friday, June 10, 2005

International Harvester

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Thanks to Jeff W and the 18 April entry of his brave/insane blogging odyssey, I've been introduced to a strange wonders of Internationa...
Monday, May 30, 2005

Coldplay -- X & Y

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A lot of talk has centred on this album supposedly being a sonic departure from earlier Coldplay albums. It isn't. Were you dying to h...
Saturday, May 28, 2005

Serge Gainsbourg -- Love On the Beat

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It's not clear to me whether or not Serge Gainsbourg was putting forth much effort on this, his early 80's synthfunk album. He'd...

Billy Corgan -- The Future Embrace

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A brief shoutout to Billy Corgan -- the nerdy older brother who used to be cool for talking about Queen when all his peers were talking abou...
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

American Idol Finale

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What an immense disappointment that was. I don't know how Fox managed to screw this up, but they did it. I mean, you've got these t...
Monday, May 23, 2005

Wolf Eyes, Gastric Female Reflex @ Horseshoe

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As I walk in, GFR are already playing. Or maybe not. I'm hearing a tape drone reminiscent of Spiritualized "Symphony Space",...
Saturday, May 21, 2005

Notes, etc.

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• Yesterday was the final day to buy presale passports for Mutek. Yesterday, I printed out the third draft of my thesis. Connect the two and...