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 moreEric 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 moreChris 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 moreThe Perry Bible Fellowship is an Eisner-winning comic strip by Nicholas Gurewitch.
read moreThe 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 moreBeing 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 […]
read moreHe’s that famous. It’s pretty raw to arrest a dude when he arrives for his opening. Ugh. I saw the above print in the flesh at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF, in addition to the iconic HOPE poster used throughout Obama’s campaign. Being in the physical presence of Shep’s work changed […]
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