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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Midnight Music: 8-Bit Renditions – Classic Rock Redone in Chip
Someone over at Metafilter shouted out this new YouTube Channel and its various hep renditions of classic rock & roll, alt rock & whatever else they feel like. A serious chiptune movement exists, that I’ve discussed often on the blerg. I believe tunes like this can remind others that chip is a legit genre and there’s a lot of work that needs to be done in that space to make EDM stronger as a whole. Can’t wait to see who does it and pushes the genre into the big room for the first time. (via Metafilter)
A Rape In Black Rock City
While this isn’t about music or dance culture, I think this is something the underground needs to grapple with meaningfully if they (as an aggregate & individuals) really want to claim to be better than your average gropefest bar or club.
A Guest Post by Clarisse Thorn
This is an article about sexual assault at the Burning Man arts festival, and the issues that surround this topic at Burning Man. It includes accounts of a particular assault.
I am writing this post as a feminist, as someone with extensive experience in the BDSM community, and from the perspective of a 2-year Burner with many many Burner friends. If you’d like to know more about my background, or if you don’t know much about Burning Man, it might help to read my review of Burning Man 2012. You can find my previous work about BDSM and sexual communication at my blog or in my books.
I want to acknowledge up front that there are a number of social justice issues at the festival, some of which I summarized in my review, and some of which were recently highlighted when the “Cargo…
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Pharrell’s Hat Had A Point. He’s Also Got Jokes On Everyone.
NYMag’s The Cut is the only outlet I’ve seen report this. It seems Pharrell’s hat was actually an elaborate fashion reference that throws all of the Smokey The Bear/Arbys/Curious George/Diglett references into sharp relief. Seems they’re not as clever as they thought they were.
Buffalo Girls (the video above), was first performed in 1844 by a Blackface minstrel singer, before it got picked up by the heads who re-did it. It’s actually just super retro, so, there’s your morning idle chatter salvo for you.
Critical Advice For Guitars on Planes From Actual Advice Mallard.
Via Traditional Hard Robots, the fact that I’ve never encountered this piece of advice before. I played guitar when I was five years old and my parents would have obliterated me if it hadn’t survived a plane trip. Can Jack White buy billboard space in Times Square to transmit this information globally?
Also, shout out to Actual Advice Mallard for always coming through.
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” ~Stephen Fry
As a long time viewer of vinyl vs. digital arguments, this quote resonated more than most about books. The medium doesn’t matter, it’s about the quality of the art contained within, and it always will be. Whether it’s words or beats, do what you love and it’ll shine through however it’s consumed by your adoring public.
Midnight Music: Audien’s Stellar Remix of “Treasure” By Bruno Mars
In celebration of the Sport Bowl that occurred today, I’m glad to say that Audien absolutely tears it up when it comes to remixing “Treasure,” one of the songs Bruno Mars performed this evening. The triumphant & heavy electro-house pushes the energy & strikes the perfectly right tone. Hit it up and hit up the comments with the first DJ you want to see perform at the Super Bowl.
Terry Gotham 