Pitchfork invited El Guincho to submit to a guest list column. See how he answered the extremely banal questions.[CLICK HERE]
Monday, April 21, 2008
He who speak to fork tongue
Pitchfork invited El Guincho to submit to a guest list column. See how he answered the extremely banal questions.[CLICK HERE]
Jazz On Edge
Jazz On Edge launches Vol. 1 on Saturday, Aug 23 at 9pm, at Taste in Orlando FL. The showcase of new, original jazz features Brian Groder ("Best CDs of 2007" -Downbeat Magazine) with Grammy-nominated bassist Doug Mathews; piano trio Eastside Combo; and jazz cellist Claire Courchene, and is produced by Joseph Hayes. See the website, Jazz On Edge, for artist details, music clips and a map. Already planning Volume 2 for February!
SOURCE: JazzOnEdge
What did you eat for lunch?
The peanut butter and jelly sandwich, (PB&J), also known as a peanut butter and jam sandwich in the UK and Canada, is a sandwich that includes a layer of peanut butter and either jelly or jam on bread, commonly between two slices. Jars of pre-mixed peanut butter and jelly are commercially available for making these sandwiches.[1] It appears to have been invented by GIs during World War II.[2] The sandwich has the advantage that it does not contain any perishable ingredients, so it does not require refrigeration in hot weather, making it suitable for lunch bags. The peanut butter and jelly sandwich is very popular with both adults and children in the US and Canada. A 2002 survey showed the average American will have eaten 1,500 of the sandwiches before graduating from high school.[3]SOURCE: Wikipedia
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Eno/Byrne unite forces again
Thirty years since Brian Eno and David Byrne collaborated on Talking Heads records, and 27 years post the original release of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the pair arejoining forces again.
SOURCE: Stereogum
Friday, April 18, 2008
iTunes Indie finder
Independent music is exploding, but it can be a challenge to find the gems. These podcasts will help you discover some of that great new music. Tune into samplers like Noise Pop or The Fader. Browse the astounding collection of full live performances in NPR's Live Concerts From All Songs Considered. And be sure to check out the Indie Music Spotlight feature on iTunes for the best new albums.SOURCE: Apple
Existence
You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That's what gives you dignity, that the whole existence will miss you. The stars and sun and moon, the trees and birds and earth — everything in the universe will feel a small place is vacant which cannot be filled by anybody except you.This gives you a tremendous joy, a fulfillment that you are related to existence, and existence cares for you. Once you are clean and clear, you can see tremendous love falling on you from all dimensions.
SOURCE: OshoZenTarot
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Discover good music here…
The artist in his own words: "My father, Jimmy is a great soulful guitarist, bassist and singer. My brother Josh is a phenomenal writer, singer and rapper who also happens to be one of the best drummers I know. My uncle, John the Baker, is a great writer and activist working at Alternative Tentacles and fronting several punk and hardcore outfits on the west coast. There is definitely something in the genes, although each of one of us is stylistically unique. Our passion is truly what we have in common. As an artist I strive for balance. When it comes to expression I do not favor one polarity over another. Im not trying to be dark in what I create but Im also not going to sugar coat my feelings about the world. A friend once described my music as a dark night of the soul that delivers you to the light.
I dont think I could have put it any better myself."
Social media productivity checklist
- What’s first in your day? What do you do before any other social media task?
- How do you listen? (example, I use Google Blog Search and Technorati search)
- Where do you connect with your communities?
- How many communities do you visit?
- Is your social media use primarily for personal use or business or both?
- What are your goals with using social media?
- If you could list a bunch of tasks you perform with social media, what would they be?
Monday, April 14, 2008
Earth Day Network
Founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network (EDN) promotes environmental citizenship and year round progressive action worldwide.Earth Day Network is a driving force steering environmental awareness around the world. Through Earth Day Network, activists connect, interact, and have an impact on their communities, and create positive change in local, national, and global policies. EDN's international network reaches over 17,000 organizations in 174 countries, while the domestic program engages 5,000 groups and over 25,000 educators coordinating millions of community development and environmental protection activities throughout the year. Earth Day is the only event celebrated simultaneously around the globe by people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities. More than a half billion people participate in our campaigns every year.
SOURCE: EarthDayNetwork
Ceiling Cat Godhead
You can tape it to your ceiling,his rightful place. Print and cut out the pattern
and stick it together, this one it quite easy to
make.
SOURCE: TubbyPaws
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Gracias, Pablo!
El Guincho Alegranza!
[Discoteca Océano; 2007]
Alegranza! does two things that often appear separately in records you fall in love with, but rarely together: On the one hand, it reminds you of so much other music you love, and on the other, it sounds little like any of them.SOURCE: PitchforkMedia
3 lessons learned about haircuts
Subject: Warm handsI sought out a simple haircut to rid myself of the shag of tribulations past. This would for most be a simple endeavor in which one gets their haircut, tips the hairdresser and moves on. Unfortunately, in my life it's just the beginning of yet another long tale.
Lesson one: Small talk means small talk
Lesson two: Warm hands mean no hair left
Lesson three: Keep eyes open, mouth shut
I went to my local hair dresser for a quick trim and thought it
would be a swift transaction at best. The girl who usually cuts my hair hates me and likes to get me out of the chair as quickly as possible. She does a good job, but does not want me there. This works for me as I hate to get me haircut as I feel the memories of mom, bowl, and friends’ laughter haunting me like pastrami burps that run deep into the night. So, I step to the stylist and ask for my trim. She sits my down, places a leopard pattern apron around my neck, and asks what I want. I ask for a trim with scissors.
Reaching for her water bottle, she says ok! As she is spraying my hair, I can sense that she really likes the song on the radio as she is singing it word for word without a mistake. It was at this point that the storeowner comes over to me and asks if I like the song as well. Being an agreeable chap, I said "Sure it is a nice song." This is where the trim became a full haircut. Once I said I liked it, she told me she wrote it. I could have kept my mouth shut and kept to lesson number one, but no, I had to tell her that I was a musician as well. As she shared her trials and troubles about life as a budding star, I could see the site of my once precious mane becoming shorter and shorter and it was when I came to lesson number two, did I realize the reason I could feel how warm her hands were. Cutting and chatting in a way that was more suitable for tea and crumpets, I watched the continued amputation of my locks as they were dislodge from there former place of rest and fell helplessly to the floor.
When she could no longer get her fingers between my scalp and hair, she stopped. I sat transfixed on the mirror and thankful I had my hat with me when I came to lesson number three, paid her and left.
SOURCE: MakrD
Friday, April 11, 2008
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
The Feelies Reunite
Think of a band you like and they probably like the Feelies. The New Jersey act has made an impression on more than a few folks since the seminal Crazy Rhythms LP landed in 1980, but-- barring some reunion-like activity back in 2006-- they haven't played a proper live gig in over 15 years.
Look for that to change this summer.
SOURCE: PitchforkMedia
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Prose for the forgotten me…
Subject: No fun here Well another week has passed since I lost my identity. I thought I had it when I started the week, but somehow during the discourse of the entangled body of work and play, it slipped away yet again. No triangulation of interplay could better it find it now, but I am now convinced that I had never really owned my identity, but more likely rented it.
This may seem overly simple or possibly deep to those who actually think beyond your next drink, however it is a realization that belonged to the now empty cavernous vessel that once housed a joyful spirit and optimistic and futuristic gaze. Oh pity the sadness that is attached to the loss, A selfishness connected to selflessness. A twisted plight of ambivalence and haze.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to give honor to the identity that was never stolen but relinquished; never owned so rented; never there, but here. It is collected in a pool called consciousness and there it sits forever to quiet your thirst for knowing by letting go of what was once held so tightly.
Goodbye dearest me!
SOURCE: MakrD
Monday, April 07, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Trust
Osho Zen Tarot 29. Trust
Don't waste your life for that which is going to be taken away. Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside. And with trust, something immense opens up. Then this life is no longer ordinary life, it becomes full of God, overflowing.
SOURCE: Osho The Sun Rises in the Evening Chapter 9
Saturday, March 29, 2008
If yr in the neighborhood…
Moby autograph signing in New YorkThe first 500 people to purchase Moby's new album "Last Night" beginning at 9am on Tuesday will receive a wristband to meet Moby and have him sign the new CD:
Tuesday, April 1st — 7-9pm
Virgin Megastore — Union Square
52 East 14th Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 598-4666
SOURCE: moby
NEW BLOOD, Jordan Eagles
Jordan Eagles' "FK11 VFK"
Jordan Eagles preserves blood on clear and white Plexiglas within layers of resin, suspending the organic medium’s fluid forms under the resin’s glass-like surface. For nearly a decade, Eagles has been using and preserving blood in his multi-dimensional works as a method to explore themes of regeneration and metaphysical connections between body, spirit and nature.SOURCE: JordanEagles
Friday, March 28, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
More, please…
Siriusmo - Allthegirls EP (Exploited)Siriusmo is Moritz Friedrich, Berlin-based producer, remixer and performer who has positioned himself over the past couple years into a bonafide auteur of revisionist electro-funk and disco—the kind that appeared right at the end of disco's reign and might have been sampled early on in hip hop by the likes of Grandmaster Flash.
Released 01.15.2008
Veggies and meat
Plants and Animals Parc Avenue
(Secret City; 2008)
Plants and Animals’ For/Avec EP has at least one surefire moment where one’s eyebrows find their hairline: when the listener realizes that three white dudes are covering a Nina Simone civil rights narrative.SOURCE: CokeMachineGlow
Parc Avenue often strays too far into excess and departure for departure’s sake to enjoy the brand of a songwriter’s tour-de-force. “Faerie Dance,” “New Kind of Love,” and “Guru” all stray close to or north of seven minutes, often crashing through multiple songwriting ideas before settling on a coda. But as a fully realized and lovingly sculpted aesthetic, there may be few stronger full-length debuts waiting in this year’s wings.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
My Bloody Valentine to headline Bestival 2008
My Bloody Valentine are the first headline act to be announced for this year’s Bestival.
The returning band will play the Isle of Wight event on the Friday night as a UK festival exclusive, as will Aphex Twin who head the Big Top on one of the nights.
The dates for the fifth Bestival, again at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight, are Friday 5th until Sunday 7th September 2008.
SOURCE: DrownedInSound, Efestivals
Harp will be no longer
Seven-year-old Harp, the "sophisticated rock and pop magazine," is no more. In a statement written by editor-at-large Fred Mills and published on Pop Matters, Glenn Sabin, CEO of Guthrie Inc., the company that purchased the magazine in 2003, says "Harp's critical acclaim never translated into sustaining commercial success. Harp's lifecycle was ill timed with the precipitous decline of the music software industry, coupled with the consolidation of the consumer magazine newsstand business and rising paper and postage costs."
SOURCES: MediaBistro/Fishbowl NY, HarpMagazine.com
Monday, March 17, 2008
Dexter meets GGVegas
Hide the valuables and stash the liquor!The legendary Dexter Romweber is greeted by
bon vivant and semi-retired guitar-orrist, GGVegas at a recent Dexter Romweber Duo show at a local club.
The pair exchanged pleasantries then proceded to handle snakes, speak in tongues and scare the locals.
PHOTO BY CARRIE WAITE
SOURCE: Hexbreaker
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Because Mr. Nolan says!
Introducing… Mr. Nolan (Jeff Nolan), guitar hero and all-around rock king, has gone to the mountain of rock, drank from the eternal fountain and made it back alive! From time to time we hope he'll share some insights, tall tales and stories that'll make a trucker blush.
Who knows? We'll see.
In the meantime, he's put together a list of cover songs that you may not have realized were cover songs.
Take that Cat Power!
Discuss…
• All Along the Watchtower — Jimi Hendrix (originally written by Bob Dylan)
• Summertime Blues — Blue Cheer (originally written by Eddie Cochran)
• Hallelujah — Jeff Buckley (originally written by Leonard Cohen)
• Hey Jude — Wilson Pickett (originally written by The Beatles)
• Respect — Aretha Franklin (originally written by Otis Redding)
• With a Little Help From My Friends — Joe Cocker (originally written by The Beatles)
• Love Hurts — Nazareth (originally written by Everly Brothers)
• My Back Pages — The Byrds (originally written by Bob Dylan)
• Crossroads — Cream (originally written by Robert Johnson)
• Black Magic Woman — Santana (originally written by Fleetwood Mac)
• Jersey Girl — Bruce Springsteen (originally written by Tom Waits)
• Black Diamond — The Replacements (originally written by Kiss)
• Because the Night — Patti Smith (originally written by Bruce Springsteen)
• Black Betty — Nick Cave (originally written by Ram Jam)
• Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers — Motorhead (originally written by ZZ Top)
What a fool believes…
YACHT ROCKJ.D. Ryznar and Hunter D. Stair devised the series after noticing similarities among bands such as Steely Dan, Toto, and The Doobie Brothers. In particular, members of those bands often collaborated with each other and with singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. For example, Loggins and Michael McDonald co-wrote several songs, including Loggins' "This Is It" and The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes." McDonald himself sang backing vocals for several yacht rock artists, including Steely Dan and Christopher Cross.SOURCE: YachtRock.com
Instead of choking on its vomit in a Paris bathtub or overdosing on a Hollywood sidewalk, Yacht Rock simply told one last story about Steely Dan, then hoisted its sails and drifted away while a satisfied crowd waved goodbye from the docks, exactly one incredible year after its historical debut. Bye, Yacht Rock. We loved you.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
"When we recognize the common source of our humanity, the common origins of our dreams and longings, our hopes and fears, we are able to see that we are all joined together in the great miracle of existence. When we can combine our tremendous inner wealth to create a treasure of love and wisdom that is available to all, we are linked together in the exquisite pattern of eternal creation."
SOURCE: Osho Zen Tarot
Zelo's Word-of-the-Week is: Bollocks!
"Bollocks" is a word of Anglo Saxon origin, meaning "testicles". The word is often used figuratively in English, as a noun to mean "nonsense" or conversely to mean "top quality" or "perfection", an expletive following a minor accident or misfortune, and an adjective to mean "poor quality" or "useless". The common phrases "Bollocks to that!" or "That's a load of old bollocks" expresses a distaste for a certain task, subject or opinion; "the dog's bollocks" expresses the opposite, namely admiration, pleasure or approval. Perhaps the best-known use of the term is in the title of the 1977 punk rock album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. Testimony in a resulting prosecution over the "obscene" term demonstrated that in Old English the word referred to a priest, and could also be used to mean "nonsense".
SOURCE: Wikipedia
While at SXSW, take a moment…
…to reflect about the recent passing of famed drummer and Austin resident, Buddy Miles.
George Allen Miles, Jr. (September 5, 1947 – February 26, 2008), known as Buddy Miles, was an American rock and funk drummer, most known as a member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys from 1969 until Hendrix's death in 1970.SOURCES: Wikipedia, The Reader, news reports
As a teen he gigged with his father’s band, the Bebops, and with Preston Love, Sr. and Lester Abrams. He first made it in New York, hooking up with Wilson Pickett. He jammed in the Village with Eric Clapton. His big break came when Michael Bloomfield plucked him for the Electric Flag, a blues-rock band Miles still considers the best he ever played in.Asked how he would like to be remembered by the American music magazine Seconds in in 1995, Miles simply said: "The baddest of the bad. People say I'm the baddest drummer. If that's true, thank you world."[6]
A memorial concert will take place on March 30 at Threadgill’s on Riverside Drive, South Austin.
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