Friday, May 3, 2013
Brass Band Eruption! Friday, May 17, 2013
Brass Band Eruption! Friday, May 17, 2013: Featuring Bucharest Drinking Team, Chaotic Noise Marching Corps, and Buckshot Brass Band! Continue reading →
Music: Hear This: Pogo’s “Alice” is the Internet’s nostalgia fixation at its most enchanting
Music: Hear This: Pogo’s “Alice” is the Internet’s nostalgia fixation at its most enchanting: 
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, we asked, “What’s your favorite song that originated on the Internet?”
Born in 1988, Australian producer Nick Bertke is a member of the first generation to grow up in a culture of on-demand video—albeit of an analog nature. That makes him well suited to the YouTube stardom he’s achieved under the pseudonym Pogo, with millions of views and subscriptions accrued via kaleidoscopic remixes of vintage Disney features, 1990s kiddie fare, and other objects of VHS-era fetish. By far Bertke’s most popular upload, “Alice,” is a hypnotic distillation of 1951’s animated Alice In Wonderland, a woozy rhythmic confection wound around a pair of orchestral hits digitally stretched into atmospheric gossamer.
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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, we asked, “What’s your favorite song that originated on the Internet?”
Born in 1988, Australian producer Nick Bertke is a member of the first generation to grow up in a culture of on-demand video—albeit of an analog nature. That makes him well suited to the YouTube stardom he’s achieved under the pseudonym Pogo, with millions of views and subscriptions accrued via kaleidoscopic remixes of vintage Disney features, 1990s kiddie fare, and other objects of VHS-era fetish. By far Bertke’s most popular upload, “Alice,” is a hypnotic distillation of 1951’s animated Alice In Wonderland, a woozy rhythmic confection wound around a pair of orchestral hits digitally stretched into atmospheric gossamer.
These bits of clamshell hauntology ...
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Music: Hear This: Justin Bieber is amazing when he’s slowed down 800 percent
Music: Hear This: Justin Bieber is amazing when he’s slowed down 800 percent: 
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, we asked, “What’s your favorite song that originated on the Internet?”
I have never knowingly consumed an entire Justin Bieber song, but according to my iTunes playcount, I have listened to “Justin Bieber Slowed Down 800%” close to 20 times—a number that, given its 35-minute running time, works out to some 700 minutes I’ve spent immersed in Bieber’s music. Of course, you’d be hard-pressed to find much of Bieber at all in this track created by producer Nick Pittsinger, who ran the pop star’s “U Smile” through the processing software PaulStretch to create an ambient epic as hypnotically immersive as the original is breezily inane. Instead, you might spot hints of Sigur R ...
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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, we asked, “What’s your favorite song that originated on the Internet?”
I have never knowingly consumed an entire Justin Bieber song, but according to my iTunes playcount, I have listened to “Justin Bieber Slowed Down 800%” close to 20 times—a number that, given its 35-minute running time, works out to some 700 minutes I’ve spent immersed in Bieber’s music. Of course, you’d be hard-pressed to find much of Bieber at all in this track created by producer Nick Pittsinger, who ran the pop star’s “U Smile” through the processing software PaulStretch to create an ambient epic as hypnotically immersive as the original is breezily inane. Instead, you might spot hints of Sigur R ...
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Thursday, May 2, 2013
Tom Waits :: Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour (Spoken Word)
Tom Waits :: Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour (Spoken Word): For fellow Tom Waits freaks, the pairing of Waits guesting on Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour is something like manna. The following five tracks find Waits calling in to Dylan’s show, commenting on various subjects, reveling in the everyday bizarre. Fantastic. Listen/stream, HERE.
Janelle Monae And Erykah Badu, "Q.U.E.E.N."
Janelle Monae And Erykah Badu, "Q.U.E.E.N.":
"Is it peculiar that she twerks in the mirror?" Janelle Monae asks in her new duet with Erykah Badu. The answer is that if I looked, sounded, danced, wrote music or made videos even a small fraction as awesomely as either of these two, I wouldn't do anything but twerk in the mirror all day every day for the rest of my life. There is no way to not love this.
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"Is it peculiar that she twerks in the mirror?" Janelle Monae asks in her new duet with Erykah Badu. The answer is that if I looked, sounded, danced, wrote music or made videos even a small fraction as awesomely as either of these two, I wouldn't do anything but twerk in the mirror all day every day for the rest of my life. There is no way to not love this.
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Music: Newswire: Neutral Milk Hotel to tour the world in 2014, take multiple aeroplanes over multiple seas
Music: Newswire: Neutral Milk Hotel to tour the world in 2014, take multiple aeroplanes over multiple seas: 
Worry not, Anne Frank cosplayers and phonograph-headed guitar players: Neutral Milk Hotel has a full world tour in the works for 2014. That news comes courtesy of the group’s booking agent, Jim Romeo, who told Pollstar that more fall shows will be announced soon and that “a much longer and fuller tour… that will span the globe” is planned for 2014. As NMH fans know, the previously announced fall dates are the first time the whole band has done anything together since the ‘90s, after going on hiatus following the release of 1998’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. [via Pitchfork]
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Worry not, Anne Frank cosplayers and phonograph-headed guitar players: Neutral Milk Hotel has a full world tour in the works for 2014. That news comes courtesy of the group’s booking agent, Jim Romeo, who told Pollstar that more fall shows will be announced soon and that “a much longer and fuller tour… that will span the globe” is planned for 2014. As NMH fans know, the previously announced fall dates are the first time the whole band has done anything together since the ‘90s, after going on hiatus following the release of 1998’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. [via Pitchfork]
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
The Gummy Soul Show: Chicano Rap Oldies
The Gummy Soul Show: Chicano Rap Oldies: In honor of Bizarre Tribe: A Quest to The Pharcyde's inclusion on Okayplayer's list of "Top 20 Vinyl Releases for Record Store Day", Gummy Soul has put together a new mix exploring Doo Wop's unlikely influence on East L.A.'s Chicano Rap scene of the early 90's. Hear the sounds of this overlooked chapter in Hip-Hop history here. [Previously]
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