As is somewhat obvious by the lack of posting, things have been somewhat busy in the “real world” and as such I’ve taken to writing less and less about the things I see an hear. Typically I would write before work or at home, but I’ve started a new job and the new job requires, [...]

Wet Gold – The Octopus Project from Zellner Bros. on Vimeo. Austin Texas’s Octopus Project’s most recent album / art project / sound collage Hexadecagon is flat out fucking amazing. George Gershwin meets Holy Fuck at a field party and a drug fueled grope session on someone’s sequencer breaks out. The touch points referenced by [...]

could really use a comma in that title somewhere. Belle & Sebastian – “Come On Sister” by Some Kind of Awesome

I really liked Gatekeeper’s album Optimus Maximus when I got a hold of it but have missed several opportunities to see them live due to scheduling or financial issues. Since I’m not booked for this night, I may try to make it out. I don’t particularly care for These Are Powers so I may dip [...]

Rob Walker at NYT has an interesting article on the current encroachment of merchandise as income object for musicians rather than music. The thought of musician now having to add skills of being a curator of objets d’art in addition to booking, marketing, social media networking, and things that are no longer important; like being [...]

Photographer and partner in crime Edwina Hay is assembling a free, open source calendar to keep track of free summer concerts in Google calendar. It’s kind of bare right now, but as the announcements come in, she’ll be filling it up. Here’s the vanilla link. Here’s the ical link for you Mac users. Enjoy.

ArpLine is a strange beast. While many of their peers in the Brooklyn music scene pay lip service to bands from the seventies referencing those artists which came before almost like a checklist, they seem content to ape whatever is around them. Each band chasing duplication of those original artists losing the details which make [...]