Music
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Chordal Wheeling
There are geeks, there are music geeks, and then there are the chordal crusaders, the modal moradeurs. In their own words, “powerambient” band Chord summons the feeling “of a single note being rendered into an unsolvable riddle–a harmonic Gordian knot…
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Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #4: Arthur Russell
There’s a restaurant in the Mission district of San Francisco at which, at the point it closed earlier this year, I’d eaten at with every girl I’d ever been involved with.
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Notable New York, This Week 8/10 – 8/15
This week Roseanne Cash remains Composed, Mark Cohen is Beat, Martin Amis makes it to NY!, 826NYC presents Here We Go Magic with a reading by Chuck Klosterman, Brooklyn is Black and Beautiful, learn about the long life of your…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/9-8/15
This week, The Monthly Rumpus, Nerd Nite, the first episode of Literary Death Match with new producer, m.g. Martin, Ferris Plock’s latest solo show, and a pretty sweet looking lineup at Outside Lands. Monday 8/9: Hot Nights, the August Monthly…
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‘You Never Told Me He Was That Good’
September 18th will be the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s death, and no doubt we’ll soon be drowning in tributes and reflections. I doubt, however, that many will better this excellent piece by Ed Vulliamy in the Observer. Filled with…
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Perfecting Sound
Scott Rosenberg has posted a review of Greg Milner’s Perfecting Sound Forever: an Aural History of Recorded Music:
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Cassette Tape Revival
Here’s an article in the LA Times about the revival of the cassette tape. Seems as though cassettes are the new vinyl. Or something. Apparently, the fuss-free cheapness of the cassette as a recording medium is being re-explored by small…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/2-8/8
This week, Quiet Lightning! First Tuesday: TechnoCraft @ YBCA, and art, art, art! In North Beach @ DoublePunch, Western Addition @ Big Umbrella, and in the Haight at the Summer Art Walk. Monday 8/2: Relatively new, and already so popular…
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Down by the River Festival, Berlin
Techno usually reigns at Bar 25’s sprawling riverside club, but last weekend at Berlin’s second annual Down By the River Festival folk music held sway. The festival brought more than twenty-four acts spanning the spectrum of music-made-by-people-with-actual-instruments from traditional singer-songwriters…
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Nick Cave’s Potentially Forthcoming Films
“And before that, Russell Crowe asked Cave to write a sequel to “Gladiator,” which would have ended with “a 20-minute war sequence that ended up in Vietnam, and then in a toilet in the Pentagon, with [Crowe] as this rage-fueled…
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Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #3: Dirty on Purpose
Everyone’s ex-girlfriends are moving to Austin next month. Understandably all of us are experiencing some mixed feelings about this.