David Foster Wallace dead at 46

David Foster Wallace, the author of "Infinite Jest," was found dead in his
home in Claremont, Ca. on Friday night. The 46-year-old author apparently committed suicide.


SOURCE: LATimes

Crystal Antlers are high above NYC

Crystal Antlers perform high above mid-town Manhattan. Frontman Jonny Bell summons the chimney sweep inside, and scales the ledge during the first song, with a 25-story drop below.

SOURCE: Don't Look Down series

Henry Rollins to play Guthrie/Steinbeck Tribute

Just on the surface, Woody Guthrie and
John Steinbeck have plenty in common. Guthrie was an Okie; Steinbeck wrote about them. Both filled their work with rural people and descriptions of the natural world, and in the process, both became spokesmen of sorts for the disenchanted.

SOURCES: Pitchfork, LiveNation

Tricky, Tricky, Tricky!

Knowle West Boy is the album that sums up everything that Tricky has accomplished since his 1995 Maxinquaye debut. From the sardonic bar-room blues of Puppy Toy to the haunting quasi-classicism of Joseph; from the twisted Specials-worshipping punk of Council Estate to the bereft torchery of Past Mistake; from the Roxy Music’s The Bogus Man-at-the-dancehall art-stomp of Bacative to the poignant autobiographical tale of teen pregnancy that is School Gates, Knowle West Boy sees our misunderstood hero reaching into the post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip hop and pure pop he grew up adoring, twisting it all into surreal Tricky shapes using his astonishingly accomplished band and a host of great undiscovered singers, and ending up with the most varied and accessible set of his career.

SOURCE: KWB

Thomas Wynn & The Believers

One of the joys of
living and playing music in and around Orlando is the local talent. It might seem like I'm playing favorites and…you'd be right! After the goldrush of the 90s and the 7M3 craze, not to mention the dreaded (and thankfully dead) boy-band era, comes a band that brings the rock and the roll. I'm talking about Thomas Wynn and the Believers, brothers and sisters. If you've seen them live then you know what I'm talking about. They bring it back, alive! They passionately carry the torch of Florida musicians in name and spirit.
Check them out!

SOURCE: TW&B

Your brain needs a Dad

Right now: What are you doing?
"I’ve started to become a lot pickier about where my attention goes as I observe what it means to my work when it drifts. But, I still have a long way to go. Long way."

— MerlinMan