March 2006

March 6, 2006

RIP Ivor Cutler / Ali Farka Toure

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March 6, 2006

The music blogosphere has gotten all prog again, and I’m totally psyched. Down with punk and terse, to-the-point three-sentence posts! I’m back in action with this blog, and I’ve been spending between eight and sixteen hours a day in insane, delirious writing jams (on various things–not just this!) Simon just started a new series on [...]

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March 6, 2006

I’ve been in a remarkably good mood lately. Maybe it’s the weather. Sunday in New York was just beautiful–comfortingly warm and blindingly sunny, with crystal-blue skies. Plus I just realized yesterday that the name of my local laundromat is the ‘Biondo Bubble Spa,’ which sounds like the title of a great Italodisco record. Here are [...]

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March 4, 2006

Someone once told me that if you only listen to techno, your brain becomes a circuitboard. I’m not sure about that one, but I always try to listen to a lot of different kinds of music, even if I do fall into a techno wormhole every once in a while. As the New York media [...]

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March 2, 2006

A few years ago, I went to a panel discussion on the knotty subject of ‘creativity’ at Cooper Union, which starred, among others, the lovely Yamataka Eye from Boredoms. Sadly, he wasn’t actually speaking on the panel in person, but via live videoconference from Japan. The setup had recurring technical glitches that made him seem [...]

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