loyalty without paranoia

…Welcome to Russian (film) Minute! .THE RUSSIAN ARK is a 96 minute single-shot masterpiece. If you have only the slightest bit of interest in media…

that drummin’ man

Music of the day is a box set of Gene Krupa’s band recordings. It is instructive how much and how little popular music has changed….

the haps

Got terribly, terribly sick. Cool things continued to happen on the internet regardless. Conductor – ‘Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive…

feeling things

Jams I am feeling these days: – The Symphonies of Mahler & Sibelius. Whoooosh. – Caribou’s SWIM. I need to stop sleeping on records for…

linknesserry

Links! – Bruce Sterling’s State Of The World 2011. When you’re tired of reading this, you’re tired of the future. – Dan Cook of Lost…

new year, new sets, new gigs

CRUSH does it again at Sunset, on January 15th: Myself and the legendary Davin ‘AFK’ Greenwell will be tagging from 10 to 0200, followed by…

2010: shows of the year

We could subtitle this one: “oh god, Berlin”, really. Sub:stance Two Year, Berghain / Panorama. Did you see that lineup? No, look again. Did you…

2010: concerts of the year

So much mind-shattering music: Janos Sandor – Orchestral Favorites When a concert has the finale of Beethoven 3 as the second piece on the program,…

2010: singles of the year

So much to talk about! Best Stuck-In-Your-Head-Vocals: KZSS – You & I The vocal was in my head from about March to July, nonstop, at…

2010: sets of the year

Fewer this year, oddly enough. Probably because I was at SoundCloud listening to that every day for four months. Makes it harder to keep track…