text Fatmah Talib
image Hans KumpfPersonally, I’m not a large fan of jazz. I own a couple of CDs from jazz artistes. I have a rough inkling of what goes down in a simple 12-bar blues progression. Occasionally I’ll look up a famous jazz musician on YouTube and be in awe of his or her…
A little piece I wrote for local music website 5minutemusic.
- I got rail at Coachella between Thom and Jonny and waited for 8 hours.
- Before the show Nigel walked in front of me and he said “Hi” when I shouted his name.
- I was basically the only person dancing, so yeah they noticed me pretty fast. I felt Jonny looking at me and I was so intimidated by him I couldn’t look back.
- Thom winked his left eye at me during “Weird Fishes”, and laughed when some guy shouted “Play ‘Talk Show Host!’” and I answered “Shut up, they’ll play what they want”.
- At the end, Ed pointed at me and gave two thumbs up.
- And after some fighting, shouting and begging for a setlist, Plank felt so sorry for me that he gave me one.
- I cried like a baby afterwards it was embarrasing.
LOOK AT THIS AWESOMENESS!!!!!
Here’s my post on the Syndicate Subsessions on the 24th of March!
Catching Kimmo Pohjonen was mostly an impulse decision on my part. And with little prior research - I entered the Esplanade Recital Studio not really knowing what to expect.
As he silently took to the stage I couldn’t help but be fascinated with his outfit. Dressed in a sleeveless top and a really nice, full length skirt paired with boots - Pohjonen grabbed his accordion and started the show.
The stage was set rather simply - a white screen behind Pohjonen either projected computer-generated graphics, images from the cameras on his accordion or simply cast his shadow on the screen.
Pohjonen cleverly uses samples, creative loops of his accordion and his own voice to create a multi-layered soundscape. His style seems to be a blend of steampunk, freak folk and ambient sounds amongst other things. His music comes across as remarkably innovative, completely experimental and unpredictable.
Pohjonen is as much an entertaining performer as he is a remarkable musician. He plays his accordion unlike any other. Needless to say, the performance was quite unlike anything I’ve ever heard or seen.
Take a listen to my favorite track of the night, Regenerator , as it is performed here by Pohjonen in Shanghai.
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Someone just asked, “what constitutes indie and how can someone become less indie anyway?” Well obviously an artist can be considered indie or independent by not signing with a label or signing with an independent label instead of a major one. But I think that indie is more of a sound and a…
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CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:
Nov 11 1988 114-103
Nov 30 1988 110-106
Apr 4 1989 115-97
Apr 23 1989 121-117
Jan 17 1990 100-90
Feb 28 1990 112-107
Mar 25 1990 116-94
Apr 17 1990 102-101
Jan 18 1991 105-96
Mar 24 1991 113-96
Apr 21 1991 103-100
Jan 20 1992 116-110
CLUE 4:
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
Nov 30 1988
Apr 4 1989
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
CLUE 5:
“Got a beep from Kim, and
she can fuck all night”
beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
Jan 18 1991
Jan 20 1992
CLUE 6:
Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991 too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…
JANUARY 20 1992
National Good Day Day-Donovan
I’ve been listening to My Head is An Animal, the debut album from Iceland’s Of Monsters and Men for a week now and it’s one of those albums that pretty much any fan of indie music—or just good music—will enjoy. Here’s the single, “Little Talks.”
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Kisses - Midnight Lover
how I managed to miss this duo is beyond me. Kisses make excellent, and highly danceable disco-pop. kinda like if New Order and Hot Chip were chillin’ at a beach resort.
Ladyhawke will release her long-awaited sophomore album ‘Anxiety’ on 19 Mar next year. I can already tell 2012 is gonna be a great year!
(click on the photo to watch the album teaser at NME.)
It’s a nice list - though I’m disappointed that Heart wasn’t inducted as well.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, Guns N’ Roses, Beastie Boys, Laura Nyro, The Faces, Freddie King, Don Kirshner, Cosimo Matass, Tom Dowd & Glyn Johns.
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Flea wrote this little piece on being inducted. I was just talking about Flea the other day with my bass shifu and how he’s heavily influenced by Paul McCartney and stuff.
http://redhotchilipeppers.com/we-are-with-you
Does this mean Frusciante will join RHCP for the induction performance? :D
Atlas Genius - Back Seat
Can data predict hits?
My friends at social music analytics company Next Big Sound think so. They wrote a post about trend data on...
when u have a friend
then suddenly
they ain’t ur friend
