August 15, 2009
Event : Marley Carroll at Hunk 08.22
Hunk Clothing on Walnut St in Asheville. Loopy / glitchy DJ set, free local beer, cool clothes, discounts. Map!
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August 10, 2009
Event : Marley Carroll at the Hookah Bar 08.15
Solo DJ set this Saturday, August 15th at the Hookah Bar on N French Broad in Asheville. Expect to see some newer live looping, glitching and remix techniques for the “listening room” crowd. $5 cover, 10ish.
read moreAugust 4, 2009
Selected : Eric Lindley
Eric Lindley is a singer, writer and friend based out of Los Angeles. He does many art-things, one of which is making beautifully hushed lo-fi songwriter material that recalls Smog, Elliott Smith and Red House Painters. His first full-length, “Nightcat!”, came out on Sounds Super in 2007. My favorite track from that album, “Shooting Range,” […]
read moreJuly 20, 2009
Selected : Clark
Chris Clark records for Warp Records, the paragon of modern IDM and glitch music. I’ve been following him since 2003, when he released “Empty the Bones of You,” and since then his style has gotten progressively idiosyncratic, to the point where his signature sound can’t be mistaken for anyone else. It’s so ingrained, in fact, […]
read moreJuly 16, 2009
Ephemera : The “Shreds” Videos
The perpetuation of “shreds” videos is one of my favorite ongoing Internet memes. The basic idea goes like this : take a music video by a well-known band and overdub it with something hilariously awful (typically accounting for lip sync, but not necessarily). As far as I know, the phenomenon started with a handful of […]
read moreJuly 13, 2009
Selected : Stars of the Lid
Being introduced to Stars of the Lid was one of the best things about CalArts. It was like this little secret gift, something no one else knew about, something to keep really close to the vest. It’s not as though they’re unknown (they’re probably the most well-known drone group out there), but the experience of […]
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Video : Dirt Off Your Shoulder
Part of my work with Mr. Invisible. Mr. Invisible on MySpace
read moreJuly 13, 2009
Why Hip-Hop Sucks in ’96
1981 vs Nice synopsis of the loudness wars in this 2007 RS article.
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