A Few Words on CMJ

I live in New York City, and right now the College Music Journal – simply, CMJ – music festival is in full throttle. This festival gives the stage to “imminent breakouts and moder-day heroes” and features, this year, 1,100 bands, according to the Times. And yet, I don’t plan on attending a single show, conference, [...]

Machine Music, in Two Parts

I came across some Thomas Dolby footage on YouTube recently. How’d I get there? Well, I was writing about new Dolby 3D audio technology (Dolby the tech company, not Mr. Thomas) being developed for virtual worlds and online games, and I got to thinking, what happened to Thomas Dolby? Then of course I wikipedia-ed him, [...]

Hardcore Intermission

For your listening ‘pleasure’, one of the most incendiary hardcore songs written:

A Perversion of Morrissey

This has already made the rounds of the blogosphere, but I thought it worth repeating. Seems the NFL has taken to recontextualizing an older Morrissey song (a cover possibly by the Decembrists’ Colin Meloy, though that’s unverified.) Here’s the commercial: And here’s the lyrics: Everyday Is Like Sunday Trudging slowly over wet sand back to [...]