I always hated The Beach Boys. It could have been the smiles and it could have been the matching shirts, but in truth it was neither. It was the cloying vocal harmonies, the horribly banal lyrics and the lounge pop orchestration. This dislike of their music was not some bold statement, I wasn't defining myself through opposition. Nothing so dramatic. I just didn't see how any other position on their light entertainment music was plausible. And then the cultural re-evaluation happened, and a bunch of critics decided to troll the listening public by [...]
Three albums from the Sheffield based artist David Newman, aka Autistici.
I've realized, over the last twelve months, that Saturdays and Sundays are pretty much useless as far as content is concerned, because my readership drops over 100 visitors per day on the weekends. That's what Saturdays are (and always will be unless something amazing happens following Friday's post) world news stories, and Sundays are (for now) going to remain Sunday Mix Tape day. If you want to curate a Mix Tape, all you have to do is put one together, archive the files (.zip or .rar) and use MediaFire to upload it to the Internet. Send me a link to [...]
• Two beer-related news stories in one day? It must be Memorial Day weekend! I can't wait to go to work for seven hours and watch people strolling through the door with that look of complete and utter relaxation spread across their ugly faces. I'm not bitter about having to work on major holidays, trust me. So, yeah. Article number one speaks to the fact that in this "economic downturn" the price of brewing beer has risen, but the actual cost of beer has not. I guess that makes booze just about the only thing in this world that is [...]
Now that the winter seems to retreat and a faux air of spring has already arrived in Istanbul, it's becoming hard to play anything other than spring music in the radioshows. I'm pretty sure though, the weather's still messed up all around the world, so there's a whole bunch of you who'll love this odd mix of short soundclips and textures & nervous electronic pieces. I was going to add more but decided to write more indepth reviews for Bohren & Der Club of Gore and Phalangius , soon!. Baader Brains [...]
Smurf Party '08 Woke up. Felt slightly chirpy until I realized that I'm Evan LeVine, tarnished egotist and blog-o-sphere superstar. Not only that, my sister was still in town visiting, and I realized upon awakening that I had to think of things to do that could knock another day off the calendar! The day was going to consist of unleashing her on Robertson (ugh!) , but as she toasted one half of a bagel for breakfast (ugh! a half bagel? what a waste!), I told her "don't embarrass me" and [...]
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