week 77

– This has been coming:  a Spotify / streaming based DJ app.  ‘Oh shit’ is not too strong a word. – Tim Knowles makes trees…

week 76

– Went to see my pal Erin Gee talk at Objet Sonore.  If you don’t know Erin, she does amazing things, and is well worth…

week 75

Welcome back to Montreal – it is catch up time here. – Mixes from legendary NYC nightspots. – 60 Minutes on Studio 54. – Art…

2013: tracks of the year

Hannah Read & Charlie Van Kirk – Kids This is a sucker punch:  one of my favorite voices, one of my favorite producers / good…

2013: shows of the year

Rustie, Jackmaster, Oneman @ Le Belmont Hot damn.  This was sonically colossal, had a perfectly diverse / messy crowd, and featured two smooth-as-silk DJ sets…

2013: concerts of the year

Strauss / Strauss / Ligeti –   2001 The NY Philharmonic did two sold out nights doing a play-along to the entirety of 2001.  The…

2013: albums of the year

Holden – The Inheritors Astonishing. Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe Some wags at work called this ‘slowed-down Enya’ – which is basically true, but in all…

2013: sets of the year

  DJ HENNESSY YOUNGMAN – NSA BANGERS Clearly the mix of the year.  Fuck the NSA, long live Hennessey James Holden – RA 367 A…

let’s go around one more time

Happy solstice:  Sun, it will be nice to see you again.

week 74

– My last day of my internship at The Echo Nest was today.  I will miss them. – The good people at This Is My…