November 2009
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Brian Eno to Send Brighton Festival to the Ether in 2010
According to FACT, ambient pioneer Brian Eno has been appointed Guest Artistic Director of Brighton Festival, 2010. From the press release:
“Eno will be curating a fascinating collection of events across the city including 77 Million Paintings, Apollo, an exclusively commissioned sound installation and speaking on several...
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Investing in Nostalgia
Last Sunday, a small group of friends gathered at the home Andy Lee, a friend and fellow Gen-Y’r who matured musically through the late-90’s and early-00’s. This period, for many of my friends, was dominated by a dedicated interest in punk/indie rock and hardcore records released by then-little known Tooth & Nail Records. During that time, the bands on...
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James Murphy is Scoring “Greenberg” by Noah Baumbach
(via FACT)
Ben Stiller stars in Baumbach’s latest, which is scored by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and co-written by Jennifer Jason Leigh, who hasn’t penned anything for film since her debut effort, 2001’s The Anniversary Party.
In anticipation of a new record in 2010, I was just re-falling in love...
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Good Morning: Carter Burwell, Composer
Puppet Love and Future Vessel (MP3) from Being John Malkovich
Learn More: Carter Burwell
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Day Help
The recent Resident Advisor mix by Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard is an hour and twenty minute reminder why I fell in love with Hot Chip in the first place. As good as their DJ Kicks mix was in 2007, this manages to surpass it, somehow. The effortless marriage of hip-hop, house and 80’s synth goodness is undeniable. As a DJ and music fan, I’m learning when I listen to this...
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Escapism in the Films of Charlie Kaufman
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve revisited four Charlie Kaufman films — Adaptation; Being John Malkovich; Synecdoche, New York; and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — and remain at the same time moved and annoyed by his work. Annoyed insofar as he can’t seem to write a screenplay without coloring himself into the film,...
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world … is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” - Lester Bangs
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Slow Start to this Slowblogging Business …
(via Bob Butler, of Twin Kittens + Public Image Photography)
I wanted to give Slowblog some launch love today, but the desire for quiet was displaced by a hectic agenda and, now, the pull of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” a couch with Marta and a cold glass of Sweetwater.
So, a few stories and a few songs that were on my...
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Slowblog’s Fall 2009 Mixtape
Save the image for the cover art and track list; click here for the Zip file. The mix should download in the correct order. If not, take two seconds to line it up in the intended order and throw this pup in a playlist. Burn it, throw it on your iPod, whatever … then, drive around and be blessed.
Thanks very much for stopping by.
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David Bazan, Live at the Drunken Unicorn Atlanta, October 14, 2009
Photo by Richard Soloman
By now, the post-Napster musings of arts critics and quantitative studies of academics have well-documented the consequences of digitizing art and entertainment, giving music writers a fresh premise to initiate any new conversation about the sound world around them. One of the greatest tragedies...