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…

2010: albums of the year

Bethi Ferguson – NEWVEMBER SONGS Yeah, so my friend Bethi finished this song-a-day-recorded-into-Garage Band last November. Yes, the audio quality is often awful. Did I…

the city, she don’t like you

I finished China Mieville’s THE CITY AND THE CITY recently: it’s kind of like Borges meets…well, Borges, really, but slightly less elegant and much more…

the second derivative

Many thanks to Sunset and Hush for having me out last weekend – both gigs were fun and gave me a chance to push wildly…

wind me up

Books again: Paolo Bacigalupi’s THE WIND UP GIRL is fascinating. The plot, in this case, is a vaguely Frank Herbert-esq tale of conspiracy, people submitting…

read me, baby

Been reading. We’ll start with William Gibson’s ZERO HISTORY: it’s somewhere between SPOOK COUNTRY and PATTERN RECOGNITION. It’s not as breathless as PATTERN, but not…