Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Ooh ooh wow oh wow.
November 21st can’t come soon enough. Think I might have to buy this one in plastic — a 94-page booklet?! I don’t see myself downloading that, somehow…
Thursday, September 7, 2006
The Black Seeds, Keep on pushing LP. (No, it’s not a book, smart-elec. Now get out of my house.)
The Black Seeds, Into the Dojo. (No, this isn’t a book either. What are you doing still here?)
And no books! What an odd week it’s been…
Monday, September 4, 2006
The Black Seeds played last night at Blijburg, and it went off (as expected). The festival atmosphere was awesome, laid-back and hippie, and by the second song they had I reckon everyone on the entire terrain crammed up in front of the stage rocking out. It was lovely to see the feedback loop, as the [...]
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Last night was Baseline (Hein Van de Geyn, Ed Verhoeff and Hans van Oosterhout) and John Abercrombie, a lovely gig. It hit just the right tone for me, enough original compositions and serious soloing to be out-of-the-ordinary, but still not really experimental in the “I’m lost” sense. Still, they were on-to-it enough that it felt [...]
The Black Seeds are coming back, as promised, and playing Blijburg on September 3rd as part of a two-day festival. I know it’s early notice, but this is for the Dutch folks, so they can put it in their agendas while there’s still space. You don’t want to miss this one. (Kiwis and expats: this [...]
(This one is for the Kiwis, down there in the deep dark depths of winter. Not that it will make you feel better, mind. It’s a story of spontaneous summer cycling, funk, punk, and watermelon.)
Robin pointed me to coffee.geek.nz, where they have an eMusic lookup based on Last.fm (Audioscrobbler) history:
Audioscrobbler to Emusic for lazy people. I’m already discovering interesting new stuff…
(Robin is also responsible for eMusic/J, the unofficial —and very nice— linux eMu download app.)
So I caught Fat Freddy’s Drop on Saturday, through a nice wee chain of coincidences. Thursday night we celebrated ending the Dutch course, and an American girl from the course (thanks Heather!) told me sometime in the evening that “Some band from New Zealand, Fat Freakies or something, are coming here in June or maybe [...]
Thanks to Robin, my eMu downloads for next month are already spoken for. Back when I was working on my thesis
I blogged about the throat-singing punk band Yat Kha. Since then I’ve pretty much stopped buying plastic cds, so anything that doesn’t show in eMusic gets an immediate black mark. Now they’re there. The eMu [...]
Woo! It’s certainly a month for exciting releases! Don McGlashan is putting out a solo album, Warm Hand, on May 15th, just two weeks before my birthday. Coincidence? Fate!
Update: I’ve heard the single, and it’s pretty cool. Definitely on the “Andy” end of McGlashan’s spectrum, lyric and lovely rather than challenging. I’m hoping that they [...]