Today is our fifth birthday. In dog years we're thirty five. In blog years we're probably a hundred. Five years feels like a milestone. The two questions I am asked the most about BIGSTEREO are why the name and why did you start. The first question is easy. BIGSTEREO borrowed its name from the Tracy + the Plastics song "Big Stereo." The song is about as personal for me as it gets for reasons I won't bore you with. I'm sure for Wynne Greenwood it has an entirely different meaning, but that's the beauty of [...]
Oh, happy day. Oh, day I have been waiting for. Today is the day we are going to listen to one of my favorite live acts ever, Tracy + The Plastics. I first saw Tracy (aka feminist video-artist Wynne Greenwood) and her Plastics (also aka Wynne Greenwood) at a very hilarious electroclash tour at The Majestic Theater in Detroit on October 17th, 2002. I had heard how amazing T+TPs were from friends who had seen them (her) the year before opening for Le Tigre . They could not stop talking about how [...]
video game heart - All Girl Summer Fun Band arcade suicide - Tracy + The Plastics i am not your gameboy - Freezepop arcade boy - The Doll Incident So I've been neglecting my blog lately, mostly on account of work, but also partly on account of the fact that we just got a Wii. If you don't [...]
Today, it's our birthday! Happy, happy birthday. We enter the terrible twos. Watch out. We're about to be terrible. There's too much, there's too much treble in here. The song that started it all... if I were ever feeling super extra nerdy and made a list of my top ten favorite songs of all time, "Big Stereo" would be near the top. It gives me goose bumps every listen. Tracy + The Plastics - “Big Stereo” (mp3) Share This
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