Saturday, June 29, 2013
Daftside
Daftside: Nicolas Jaar (previously on MeFi) and Dave Harrington, the musicians constituting the hypnotic and funky group Darkside, have remixed Daft Punk's Random Access Memories (previously on MeFi) in full. You can stream it here.
Godspeed Human Metronome
Godspeed Human Metronome: Alan Myers, drummer for Devo during their seminal '76-'85 period, has died.
Myers joined Devo in 1976, replacing Jim Mothersbaugh, and with his addition came a unique gelling of their sound that would lead to Myers being dubbed 'The Human Metronome' by his bandmates. For the next 10 years he played on influential album after influential album, including their Brian Eno-produced debut full-length album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, 1979's Duty Now for the Future, and 1980's best-selling Freedom of Choice (containing the should've-been hit Gates of Steel). He left the band in 1985 during the troubled recording of the frequently-maligned Total Devo, saying that his importance in the band had been overshadowed by the group's increasing use of the Fairlight synthesizer and associated rhythm programming and sampling.
A small selection of The Human Metronome in action:
- Devo - [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction, 1977 music video
- Devo- Mongoloid + Gut Feeling, '77 live
-Devo interview, 1978
-Devo - The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise - 1978 music video
-"You guys're so... techno, y'know?" - if you've never seen footage of them playing before, this is why people fucking LOVE this band: Devo play Uncontrollable Urge on TV's Fridays, 1980
- Devo - Girl U Want, 1980 music video
-Devo as Dove, the band of Love - Shrivel Up, from the 1980 comedy Pray TV
- Devo as Dove, the Band of Love - Worried Man, live 1980
-Devo as Dove, the Band of Love - Praying Hands + Shrivel Up, live 1980
-Devo live in concert, 1980
- Devo - Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy, live 1980
-Devo - Through Being Cool - 1981 music video
- Devo - Uncontrollable Urge - live from 1981's Urgh! A Music War
-Devo - Jocko Homo, live '82
- Devo - That's Good, 1983 music video
Myers joined Devo in 1976, replacing Jim Mothersbaugh, and with his addition came a unique gelling of their sound that would lead to Myers being dubbed 'The Human Metronome' by his bandmates. For the next 10 years he played on influential album after influential album, including their Brian Eno-produced debut full-length album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, 1979's Duty Now for the Future, and 1980's best-selling Freedom of Choice (containing the should've-been hit Gates of Steel). He left the band in 1985 during the troubled recording of the frequently-maligned Total Devo, saying that his importance in the band had been overshadowed by the group's increasing use of the Fairlight synthesizer and associated rhythm programming and sampling.
A small selection of The Human Metronome in action:
- Devo - [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction, 1977 music video
- Devo- Mongoloid + Gut Feeling, '77 live
-Devo interview, 1978
-Devo - The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise - 1978 music video
-"You guys're so... techno, y'know?" - if you've never seen footage of them playing before, this is why people fucking LOVE this band: Devo play Uncontrollable Urge on TV's Fridays, 1980
- Devo - Girl U Want, 1980 music video
-Devo as Dove, the band of Love - Shrivel Up, from the 1980 comedy Pray TV
- Devo as Dove, the Band of Love - Worried Man, live 1980
-Devo as Dove, the Band of Love - Praying Hands + Shrivel Up, live 1980
-Devo live in concert, 1980
- Devo - Gut Feeling/Slap Your Mammy, live 1980
-Devo - Through Being Cool - 1981 music video
- Devo - Uncontrollable Urge - live from 1981's Urgh! A Music War
-Devo - Jocko Homo, live '82
- Devo - That's Good, 1983 music video
Orson, you're behaving like an asshole.
Orson, you're behaving like an asshole.: In the early eighties, Orson Welles was a fixture at L.A.'s Ma Maison, where Wolfgang Puck was the chef before he moved on to Spago. Nearing 70, and 40-plus years removed from Citizen Kane, which he made when he was just 25, Welles was fat and famously difficult, no longer a viable star but still a sort of Hollywood royalty—a very certain sort. The younger director Henry Jaglom was one of many aspiring auteurs who admired him but possibly the only one who taped their conversations. These took place in 1983 over lunch at the restaurant.
So long, Bobby 'Blue' Bland
So long, Bobby 'Blue' Bland: It's time to say farewell to one of the great and legendary voices of American music. Mr Bobby 'Blue' Bland has died. With the perfect combination of muscle and tenderness, grit and sweetness, he gave us so many stellar performances over his long career. Here are but a few: Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City, The Way You Treated Me, Stormy Monday, Further Up the Road, St. James Infirmary, I'll Take Care of You, I Stand Accused, That's the Way Love Is, Ain't Nothing You Can Do... and the list goes on. Thanks for the music, Bobby Bland.
Watch the Earliest Known Footage of Louis Armstrong Performing Live in Concert (Copenhagen, 1933)
Watch the Earliest Known Footage of Louis Armstrong Performing Live in Concert (Copenhagen, 1933):
In October of 1933, Louis Armstrong and his “Harlem Hot Band” arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark for a series of eight shows at the Lyric Park theater. Thousands of fans mobbed the railway station, breaking through police barricades and climbing on top of train cars just to get a glimpse of the great jazz trumpeter as he stepped from his train.
Nowadays the Copenhagen visit is remembered because it was the first time Armstrong was ever filmed in concert. The Danish director Holger Madsen recruited Armstrong to appear in his feature film København, Kalundborg Og -?. Armstrong had made a cameo appearance in a 1931 film called Ex Flame, and on a sound stage the following year in two short films–a Paramount Pictures featurette and a Betty Boop cartoon–but the Copenhagen footage is the earliest of Armstrong playing live with his band.
The performance was filmed on October 21, 1933 at the Lyric Park. There was no audience in the theater during the filming. The shots of people applauding were made at a different time and spliced into the scene. Armstrong and his band play three songs: “I Cover the Waterfront,” “Dinah” and “Tiger Rag.” The nine-man band includes Armstrong on trumpet and vocals, Charles D. Johnson on trumpet, Peter DuCongé on clarinet and alto saxophone, Henry Tyree on alto saxophone, Fletcher Allen on tenor saxophone, Lionel Guimarez on trombone, Justo Baretto on piano, German Arango on bass and Oliver Tines on drums.
Armstrong is brilliant in the film. His exuberant showmanship and virtuosity are striking, and his unmistakable genius for phrasing–the way his trumpet and voice sound like two sides of the same distinctive instrument–remind us of why many people still consider Armstrong the greatest jazz musician of all time.
Related content:
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Live in Belgium, 1959: The Full Show
New Jazz Archive Features Rare Audio of Louis Armstrong and Other Legends Playing in San Francisco
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Nowadays the Copenhagen visit is remembered because it was the first time Armstrong was ever filmed in concert. The Danish director Holger Madsen recruited Armstrong to appear in his feature film København, Kalundborg Og -?. Armstrong had made a cameo appearance in a 1931 film called Ex Flame, and on a sound stage the following year in two short films–a Paramount Pictures featurette and a Betty Boop cartoon–but the Copenhagen footage is the earliest of Armstrong playing live with his band.
The performance was filmed on October 21, 1933 at the Lyric Park. There was no audience in the theater during the filming. The shots of people applauding were made at a different time and spliced into the scene. Armstrong and his band play three songs: “I Cover the Waterfront,” “Dinah” and “Tiger Rag.” The nine-man band includes Armstrong on trumpet and vocals, Charles D. Johnson on trumpet, Peter DuCongé on clarinet and alto saxophone, Henry Tyree on alto saxophone, Fletcher Allen on tenor saxophone, Lionel Guimarez on trombone, Justo Baretto on piano, German Arango on bass and Oliver Tines on drums.
Armstrong is brilliant in the film. His exuberant showmanship and virtuosity are striking, and his unmistakable genius for phrasing–the way his trumpet and voice sound like two sides of the same distinctive instrument–remind us of why many people still consider Armstrong the greatest jazz musician of all time.
Related content:
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars Live in Belgium, 1959: The Full Show
New Jazz Archive Features Rare Audio of Louis Armstrong and Other Legends Playing in San Francisco
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Johnny Smith, 1922-2013
Johnny Smith, 1922-2013:
“He accomplished everything he ever wanted. He played with the best musicians in the world, he went deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, he was a great father.”
—Jazz guitarist Johnny Smith was 90.
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“He accomplished everything he ever wanted. He played with the best musicians in the world, he went deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, he was a great father.”
—Jazz guitarist Johnny Smith was 90.
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Hear Charlton Heston Read Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Hear Charlton Heston Read Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”:
Though the starring role of Harry, the fast-fading rough-and-tumble man of letters who sees himself as ruined by affluence and hedonism, went to Peck, I could also imagine it played by Charlton Heston. Even if you couldn’t quite place that bit of dialogue from “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” you’d be immediately able to place Heston’s voice reading the story aloud in the recording available on this HarperAudio Hemingway site. Listen below and see for yourself if the actor’s delivery, so often associated with silver-screen roles meant to project a grand sternness, can also deliver the bitterness of Hemingway’s protagonist, who certainly shares with his creator the conviction that “politics, women, drink, money and ambition” bring writers truly low, down to the point where they can declare, as Harry so memorably does, “The only thing I’ve never lost is curiosity.”
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Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
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“‘The marvelous thing is that it’s painless,’ he said. ‘That’s how you know when it starts.’
‘Is it really?’
‘Absolutely. I’m awfully sorry about the odor though. That must bother you.’”
Most American readers surely recognize these lines, though it may take a moment to remember where they recognize them from. They open “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” a short story by Ernest Hemingway that first ran in Esquire in 1936, then, two years later, appeared in the collection The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. (Find in our collection of Free eBooks.) Dealing with the memories and regrets of a writer on safari dying of a gangrenous thorn wound, the story has over the past 76 years become one of the most respected works in Hemingway’s oeuvre and an essential piece of twentieth-century American literature. As often happens with essential pieces of American literature, Hollywood got to it, adapting it into a 1952 blockbuster featuring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, and Ava Gardner. (Find in our collection of 535 Free Movies Online.)Though the starring role of Harry, the fast-fading rough-and-tumble man of letters who sees himself as ruined by affluence and hedonism, went to Peck, I could also imagine it played by Charlton Heston. Even if you couldn’t quite place that bit of dialogue from “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” you’d be immediately able to place Heston’s voice reading the story aloud in the recording available on this HarperAudio Hemingway site. Listen below and see for yourself if the actor’s delivery, so often associated with silver-screen roles meant to project a grand sternness, can also deliver the bitterness of Hemingway’s protagonist, who certainly shares with his creator the conviction that “politics, women, drink, money and ambition” bring writers truly low, down to the point where they can declare, as Harry so memorably does, “The only thing I’ve never lost is curiosity.”
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The Spanish Earth, Written and Narrated by Ernest Hemingway
Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction
Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
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Watch a Surprisingly Moving Performance of John Cage’s 1948 “Suite for Toy Piano”
Watch a Surprisingly Moving Performance of John Cage’s 1948 “Suite for Toy Piano”:
At some point during his 1948 mania for the Rube Goldberg pieces of prepared pianos, John Cage, inspired by minimalist French composer Erik Satie, decided to turn back to melody for a moment. Still building with a dull percussive tonal palate, he wrote solely for the keyboard this time… of a toy piano. “Suite for Toy Piano” consists of five short movements, none over two minutes. Cage liked the abrasive chiming and limited range of the instrument.
The piece can be mechanical or structurally immersive, depending on the player. In the performance above, Portuguese pianist Joana Gama achieves the latter effect, imbuing the composition with dynamic energy many other renditions lack, though I do not know whether Cage intended a flat affect. In any case, he tended to appreciate improvisatory takes on his work at all times, so he wouldn’t have been bothered.
The surrounding audience—shuffling, whispering, wheezing—only add to Gama’s intensity. The event marked the 2011 opening of the Centre for Art and Architecture Affairs in Guimarães, Portugal.
Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Washington, DC. Follow him @jdmagness
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The piece can be mechanical or structurally immersive, depending on the player. In the performance above, Portuguese pianist Joana Gama achieves the latter effect, imbuing the composition with dynamic energy many other renditions lack, though I do not know whether Cage intended a flat affect. In any case, he tended to appreciate improvisatory takes on his work at all times, so he wouldn’t have been bothered.
The surrounding audience—shuffling, whispering, wheezing—only add to Gama’s intensity. The event marked the 2011 opening of the Centre for Art and Architecture Affairs in Guimarães, Portugal.
Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Washington, DC. Follow him @jdmagness
Related Content:
John Cage Plays Amplified Cacti and Plant Materials with a Feather (1984)
John Cage Unbound: A New Digital Archive Presented by The New York Public Library
John Cage Performs Water Walk on “I’ve Got a Secret” (1960)
The Controversial Sounds of Silence: John Cage’s 4’33″ Performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Wu-Tang Clan releases family-friendly single, announces new album and festival tour
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Wu-Tang Clan releases family-friendly single, announces new album and festival tour: 
It's been 20 years since Method Man first threatened to "lay your nuts on a fucking dresser and bang them shits with a spiked fucking bat," and the Wu-Tang Clan is celebrating by encouraging us all to reunite with our families. The Clan is still in the studio working on a new album, but they just released "Family Reunion," a single that RZA said he hopes will "inspire family reunions throughout the world." Not to be confused with that time he encouraged decapitation.
You can listen to the single and order a 7" of it here. List of tour dates below.
6/14/13 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival7/5/13 - Quebec, Canada - Festival d'Ete International de Quebec 7/6/13 - 80/35 Festival 2013 - Des Moines, IA7/7/13 - Ottawa, Canada - RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest8/30/13 - 9/1/13 - Chicago, IL - North Coast Music ...
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It's been 20 years since Method Man first threatened to "lay your nuts on a fucking dresser and bang them shits with a spiked fucking bat," and the Wu-Tang Clan is celebrating by encouraging us all to reunite with our families. The Clan is still in the studio working on a new album, but they just released "Family Reunion," a single that RZA said he hopes will "inspire family reunions throughout the world." Not to be confused with that time he encouraged decapitation.
You can listen to the single and order a 7" of it here. List of tour dates below.
6/14/13 - Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Festival7/5/13 - Quebec, Canada - Festival d'Ete International de Quebec 7/6/13 - 80/35 Festival 2013 - Des Moines, IA7/7/13 - Ottawa, Canada - RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest8/30/13 - 9/1/13 - Chicago, IL - North Coast Music ...
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Music: Hear This: Smith Westerns’ “Varsity” strikes a chord with the sad summer bastard in all of us
Music: Hear This: Smith Westerns’ “Varsity” strikes a chord with the sad summer bastard in all of us: 
In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This week, with June just heating up, we asked: What song says “summer” to you so far this year?
Ask folks to name their favorite summer jam, and most will come up with something sunny and danceable, or something that involves, I don’t know, roasting hot dogs and s’mores. But there’s another group of people (one I am a card-carrying member of) who gravitate toward bittersweet, hopelessly romantic summer jams, songs perfect for driving around endlessly at night—windows closed despite the humid air—and bawling your eyes out. Smith Westerns’ “Varsity” has been my go-to bummer summer jam so far, a designation I don’t see changing any time soon. The final track from the upcoming Soft ...
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In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This week, with June just heating up, we asked: What song says “summer” to you so far this year?
Ask folks to name their favorite summer jam, and most will come up with something sunny and danceable, or something that involves, I don’t know, roasting hot dogs and s’mores. But there’s another group of people (one I am a card-carrying member of) who gravitate toward bittersweet, hopelessly romantic summer jams, songs perfect for driving around endlessly at night—windows closed despite the humid air—and bawling your eyes out. Smith Westerns’ “Varsity” has been my go-to bummer summer jam so far, a designation I don’t see changing any time soon. The final track from the upcoming Soft ...
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Music: Great Job, Internet!: Hey, there's a new Pixies track
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Hey, there's a new Pixies track: 
The Pixies have released a brand new song, their first in almost 10 years. “Bagboy” comes hot on the heels of the news that Kim Deal has left the band and is available for free download now via the band’s website. The track was recorded back in October, and, according to Black Francis, features lyrics “composed at a Starbucks Coffee in Harvard Square in Cambridge, about a hundred feet from where, 25 years ago, [he] composed some of the lyrics to an old Pixies song called ‘Break My Body.’” It’s pretty industrial and maybe a little lackluster compared to most Pixies tracks, but, hey, new material!
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The Pixies have released a brand new song, their first in almost 10 years. “Bagboy” comes hot on the heels of the news that Kim Deal has left the band and is available for free download now via the band’s website. The track was recorded back in October, and, according to Black Francis, features lyrics “composed at a Starbucks Coffee in Harvard Square in Cambridge, about a hundred feet from where, 25 years ago, [he] composed some of the lyrics to an old Pixies song called ‘Break My Body.’” It’s pretty industrial and maybe a little lackluster compared to most Pixies tracks, but, hey, new material!
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Music: Great Job, Internet!: Watch the new David Lynch-directed Nine Inch Nails video
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Watch the new David Lynch-directed Nine Inch Nails video: 
Nine Inch Nails have released a new, David Lynch-directed video for “Came Back Haunted.” The clip marks the first collaboration between Lynch and the Nails since 1997’s Trent Reznor-produced Lost Highway soundtrack and, yes, it’s pretty much as weird as you’d expect. The epilepsy-inducing clip features black-and-white spider kids, CGI lightning bolts, a lot of shaky close ups of Reznor’s face and giant neck. Watch below, unless you’re prone to brain issues and/or rage blackouts.
Nine Inch Nails' new record, Hesitation Marks, is due out Sept. 3. Lynch's own new record, The Big Dream, is due out July 16.
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Nine Inch Nails have released a new, David Lynch-directed video for “Came Back Haunted.” The clip marks the first collaboration between Lynch and the Nails since 1997’s Trent Reznor-produced Lost Highway soundtrack and, yes, it’s pretty much as weird as you’d expect. The epilepsy-inducing clip features black-and-white spider kids, CGI lightning bolts, a lot of shaky close ups of Reznor’s face and giant neck. Watch below, unless you’re prone to brain issues and/or rage blackouts.
Nine Inch Nails' new record, Hesitation Marks, is due out Sept. 3. Lynch's own new record, The Big Dream, is due out July 16.
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Music: Great Job, Internet!: Listen to "Dance Apocalyptic," the great new single from Janelle Monáe
Music: Great Job, Internet!: Listen to "Dance Apocalyptic," the great new single from Janelle Monáe: 
Earlier today, Janelle Monáe announced her sophomore record, The Electric Lady, is due out Sept. 10, and with that news also came a new single. “Dance Apocalyptic” is equal parts Michael Jackson circa Jackson 5, soul, pop, and Sesame Street. In other words, it’s pretty good.
In other pretty good news, both Prince and Miguel will appear on The Electric Lady. Erykah Badu also pops up on the record’s lead single, “Q.U.E.E.N.”
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Earlier today, Janelle Monáe announced her sophomore record, The Electric Lady, is due out Sept. 10, and with that news also came a new single. “Dance Apocalyptic” is equal parts Michael Jackson circa Jackson 5, soul, pop, and Sesame Street. In other words, it’s pretty good.
In other pretty good news, both Prince and Miguel will appear on The Electric Lady. Erykah Badu also pops up on the record’s lead single, “Q.U.E.E.N.”
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Video: A.V. Undercover 2013: Alpine covers Radiohead
Video: A.V. Undercover 2013: Alpine covers Radiohead: 
Australian sextet Alpine just released its first album: A Is For Alpine is a dreamy, floaty, and gorgeous set of electronic-assisted pop. The band's two singers, Phoebe Baker and Lou James, bring a sweetness to Radiohead's "Just" that Thom Yorke probably wouldn't have imagined, but it works—especially since guitarist Christian O'Brien brings all the growl and nastiness of the original. Alpine is just finishing up a U.S. tour, with a stop in Cambridge, MA tonight, and New York's Webster Hall tomorrow.
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Australian sextet Alpine just released its first album: A Is For Alpine is a dreamy, floaty, and gorgeous set of electronic-assisted pop. The band's two singers, Phoebe Baker and Lou James, bring a sweetness to Radiohead's "Just" that Thom Yorke probably wouldn't have imagined, but it works—especially since guitarist Christian O'Brien brings all the growl and nastiness of the original. Alpine is just finishing up a U.S. tour, with a stop in Cambridge, MA tonight, and New York's Webster Hall tomorrow.
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Music: Great Job, Internet!: "Personal Yeezus" is an almost perfect mashup of Kanye West, Depeche Mode
Music: Great Job, Internet!: "Personal Yeezus" is an almost perfect mashup of Kanye West, Depeche Mode: 
The second Kanye West named his new album Yeezus, it became Internet inevitable that a mashup of one of the album's tracks and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" would eventually exist. Thankfully, with West's new industrial-tinged songs like "Black Skinhead" and Depeche Mode's sick beats, the product actually turned out pretty excellent. Buzzfeed calls it "your new favorite song," and, for once, that grandiose hyperbole might actually prove true.
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The second Kanye West named his new album Yeezus, it became Internet inevitable that a mashup of one of the album's tracks and Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" would eventually exist. Thankfully, with West's new industrial-tinged songs like "Black Skinhead" and Depeche Mode's sick beats, the product actually turned out pretty excellent. Buzzfeed calls it "your new favorite song," and, for once, that grandiose hyperbole might actually prove true.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Louis Armstrong on keeping up his chops
Louis Armstrong on keeping up his chops:
In 1964, when they were teenagers at New Trier High School near Chicago, Michael Aisner and James Stein interviewed Louis Armstrong backstage at one of his concerts. In his boxers.
Aisner also interviewed Muhammed Ali a couple years later.
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In 1964, when they were teenagers at New Trier High School near Chicago, Michael Aisner and James Stein interviewed Louis Armstrong backstage at one of his concerts. In his boxers.
You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.
Aisner also interviewed Muhammed Ali a couple years later.
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HONK! Fest, YES!!!
HONK! Fest, YES!!!:
HONK! Fest honked out all weekend, with marching bands making people happy from the streets of Georgetown to Gas Works Park to SAM to the Columbia City Theater. Friday night highlights included Soundwave doing Macklemore, with a lady wearing dayglo orange REALLY enjoying it, and a deafeningly awesome battle of the bands between Portland's Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers and the Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline. Verdict on the battle: Blue Thunder was more fun, but LRSD is who we'll want out in front when the revolution comes.
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HONK! Fest honked out all weekend, with marching bands making people happy from the streets of Georgetown to Gas Works Park to SAM to the Columbia City Theater. Friday night highlights included Soundwave doing Macklemore, with a lady wearing dayglo orange REALLY enjoying it, and a deafeningly awesome battle of the bands between Portland's Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers and the Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline. Verdict on the battle: Blue Thunder was more fun, but LRSD is who we'll want out in front when the revolution comes.
The Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers at the Seattle Art Museum on Sunday: not as loud as under the overpass in Georgetown on Friday night—two members of the drumline completely battered through their drumheads—but still loud.
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Bat Country Performs Leonard Cohen's "The Future"
Bat Country Performs Leonard Cohen's "The Future":
Please enjoy the live video of Seattle's best noir-country, neo-cabaret band
Bat Country performing Leonard Cohen's "The Future" at their final show and album release at Columbia City Theater on June 15, 2013. Read the wonderful (and bittersweet) history of the group here. Their new album, Love's the Only Engine of Survival is a pretty triumphant finale, and is out now.
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Please enjoy the live video of Seattle's best noir-country, neo-cabaret band
Bat Country performing Leonard Cohen's "The Future" at their final show and album release at Columbia City Theater on June 15, 2013. Read the wonderful (and bittersweet) history of the group here. Their new album, Love's the Only Engine of Survival is a pretty triumphant finale, and is out now.
WATCH THE VIDEO >>>
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