I just received this email from a friend of mine (identifying information removed) Friends, **** Park and ***** Emerson are delighted to announce the commencement of the Emerson Park salons! If you're one of the lucky few who hasn't already had this notion repeatedly pounded over your head, perhaps a little background is in order: we're keen to host ongoing events with an eye to providing our friends and ourselves regular intellectual stimulation (reminding us to drink deeply from the world of ideas now and again) whilst cultivating local social connections around Lake Merritt (and beyond). [...]
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The 2009 MidPoint Music Festival took place here in Cincinnati last weekend and now it's time to provide our thoughts. Enjoy this recap of the weekends festivities from contributor Dave Rolfes. So, how does one sum up three nights at MPMF? I'm not totally sure, but I'm here to give it my best shot here, and I thought my approach would be to highlight some of my favorite things about the weekend. It would appear that there are many different ways to go about it, but this to me seemed like a fun way to go. [...]
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Hello, I'm Tao Lin . You might know me as a frequent HIPSTER RUNOFF commenter when I am trying to promote my personal website heheheheheheheeheheheehehe.com or as a model from the IAMCARLES campaign. I recently wrote a novel called 'Shoplifting from American Apparel.' Some websites have reviewed it, and some have even 'panned' it. This book is intended to break into alternative markets. The title is 'very marketable' which is why I selected HIPSTER RUNOFF as a place to run this [...]
Around 11.2 miles lie between the heart of Hoxton and Hainault forest, a secluded sect of wooded suburbia, cracked pavements and for one weekend only, splashed eyeliner and smashed scenesters. Expanded on last year's boho boutique knees-up, it's in with the industrial leathers as bemused local pushchair wielders gaze on perplexed as sperm counts diminish and lungs are perpetually battered with a barrage of tar. Musically, times have changed as hardcore hipsters rip the spotlights from the catacombs lingering over the doom pop of The Horrors and London upstarts R O M A N C E and Ulterior under the [...]
Around 11.2 miles lie between the heart of Hoxton and Hainault forest, a secluded sect of wooded suburbia, cracked pavements and for one weekend only, splashed eyeliner and smashed scenesters. Expanded on last year's boho boutique knees-up, it's in with the industrial leathers as bemused local pushchair wielders gaze on perplexed as sperm counts diminish and lungs are perpetually battered with a barrage of tar. Musically, times have changed as hardcore hipsters rip the spotlights from the catacombs lingering over the doom pop of The Horrors and London upstarts R O M A N C E and Ulterior under the [...]
Early Lines in St. Louis, MO 2004. Any music lover can attest to the fact that one of life's great rewards is the discovery of an artist or sound that takes the wind out of you. For me, my introduction to Early Lines was more like a ceaseless series of kicks to the body. Their 2nd full-length album, 2001's Hate The Living, Love The Dead possesses an immediacy and intensity that is quite rare when compared to the modern musical landscape. The band's sounds and messages were inspired [...]
Crocodiles are nice guys. Despite all the fuss about crystal meth, drugs, anger that surrounds this up-and-coming Southern Californian duo emerging from the same "scene" (but don't call it that way please!) that gave us Wavves, Crystal Stilts, Blank Dogs and many more, when I arrived at Bardens Boudoir - where they would later present their new album Summer Of Hate in the last date of their European tour - about one and a half hour late for our interview*, they kept that sort of composure and politeness that one would expect to find in British folks [...]
JEMINA PEARL REVEALS DEBUT LP Jemina Pearl , our favorite rioting, rambunctious, rancorous ex- Be Your Own Pet frontwoman shotgunned our faces off last week with the announcement that her debut LP sits ready and raring to rend our ears straight from our smiling mugs. We've already listened to the excellent ' Get Awkward -era' tracks posted on JP's Myspace page (the summery, subversive edge of "Ecstatic Appeal", the bouncey, shredding brain-addled boogie of "Heartbeats", and the croony, garage-rock mashup of "Nashville Shores") and with the release [...]
Everyone who knows me knows that the only reason I bought tickets to the Pitchfork Music Festival was because Frightened Rabbit was playing. Well, honestly, I saw amazing bands that I am so very glad to have had the chance to see, but really, they were all just the gravy on the Frightened Rabbit pile of mashed potatoes, if ya know what I mean. And as Sunday neared I began to quietly count down the hours until they would take the stage, praying for the sound to be good, for the show to be long, for no disappointments. [...]
Copyright The Guardian 2009. Their excellent coverage here . Tues 11.00 Get on megabus at Victoria. Meet 'Nutzo' who is also sharing a lift with friend-of-friend Yasir from Reading. He's lovely, of course. 12.30. Wow. Reading Sainsburys is massive. No inflatible pillows though. Port or Rum? Both. Oh and a token bottle of Old Perculiar. Food bill (Apples, Cereal Bars, Shortbread): £6. Booze bill: £39. 14.00 On the road. Stop for punnet of Strawberries. First swig of pear cider for the weekend (yes it's Tuesday I know) 15.30 Arrive at Glasto. Sun's out. Hooray! 15.34 Carrying stuff [...]
Remember that American band that made more quality records than My Bloody Valentine? ....Of course you don't, loser. That's why Sixteen Deluxe didn't play Coachella and isn't sitting at the top of the "I wish they'd reform" list of everyone working at NME. MBV made one incredible/genius/to-die-for record. Sandwiched on either side of it, was a passable first record and decades of failed promises and money grabbing tours. If you tell me I can only take one bands' shoegaze music, I'd take Backfeedmagnetbabe, Emits Sparks and a bundle of good ep's on the desert island without a second thought. [...]
Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom is an annual one-day fest put on by the Davis-Sacramento community freeform radio station, KDVS , going down this Saturday. The event is heavily attended not only for its boastful cast, but also for its fabulous location: the grimy, middle-of-nowhere barbeque and bar, Plainfield Station in Woodland (just outside of Davis). Wooden Shjips - We Ask You To Ride The DJs strive for a local and out of town presence for the lineup, which this year includes SF's Wooden Shjips , Thee [...]
A note from Jarvis Cocker: Back in October 2006, when I was asked to edit The Observer Music Monthly in the UK, I asked the question "What is Music for?". Two & a half years on I would like to shorten that question to: WHAT IS MUSIC? I have lost count of the number of articles proclaiming the imminent or actual death of the music industry. Does this mean that music can now go back to being an art form again? & If so, is it the first art form to begin adapting itself to the post-capitalist society [...]
Download Jarvis Cocker : Quantum Theory Mp3 Not only is Jarvis Cocker making an exhibition of himself, he wants you to join him. For a hot second the movie in my head cut to agitated Britpop enthusiasts swarming the stage during a Michael Jackson set, preferably sporting the "C*nts Are Still Running the World" t-shirts from the '07 tour. Alas, this is not the case- it's even quirkier. Starting the Tuesday 5th of May until Sunday the 10th, Jarvis will be occupying [...]
Jarvis Cocker is known for being an exceptionally eccentric, professorial type, as well as an entertainer, so becoming a human exhibition is, in some respects, just the next logical step in his existence. Apparently, Cocker's been struggling with some existential questions like, "what is music?," "what is the future of music?," and "what would happen if I installed myself in an art gallery, rehearsed, and invited people to play/interact with me?" To Cocker, the eaisest way to resolve these questions (especially the third) was to install himself, along with his band, in a Paris [...]
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After a long day of running around like a nut, I just want to chill at home, drink some tea [or eat a delicious chocolate chip pancake like the one I just devoured] and kick back with some fresh tunes that bring me to another place. Christopher Tignor is one of those new fresh sounds. In a whole 'nother realm than most of the music I post on here, Tignor is more of a composer than anything else. Also the leader of the band Slow Six [from Brooklyn], [...]
Hey Rat Boy and Rat Girl, time for another interview to get the drones of this planet semi-amused in this world of constant media and text! Always a damn pleasure to get a hold of you guys and catch up. How does the sky look where you are at and where are you currently? It's always kvl talkin' to u as u have been a trve head and svppoter ov the CROSS from the beginning. We met at one ov our gigz in LA 'round Halloween 2002, right? We r [...]
Said the Gramophone is now around six years old. Six years is a very good age to be. We know how to walk, run, jump and crack jokes. We know the words to a few songs. We've invented code-words, made some friends, and we are learning how to draw shoelaces. Six years ago, there's no way Dan, Jordan and I could have imagined ourselves here in pistachio-green, saying, "Hi again, all you". This is the third annual Said the Gramophone Funding Drive . It's when we ask for your generosity. Last year the three of [...]
I love new beginnings, and Obama's call for renewal -and the official beginning of the Obama Era- is a great time to begin afresh again. First of all, I want to read, re-read and remember for myself my three favorite parts of the Inaugural Ceremony -the speech, the poem, and the benediction- so I'm posting the video and transcripts of each below. Two of the comments I've heard over and over about Obama come from my mom, "He works twice as hard as everyone else." and my step-father, "He's the smartest guy in the room." These [...]
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
WKND PLYLST!! This has nothing to do with NEW MOON!
Bobby B's Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#25-21)
HOT CHIP TAKE another crack at IT and I’m IN
