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Part of understanding the Ramones is understanding the moment in stateside musical history when they appeared. If you don't know that, they may not make much sense. I was talking about exactly this moment with Rger Miller of Mission of Burma a couple of months ago. He, my gf, and I were...

I've seen videotapes of their performances, and I always recommend them to people who are interested in multimedia. It's how I discovered Rjoyi Ikeda actually, listening to dumb type's memorandum, which I love. I used to hang around the MCA in chicago and a guy who works there recommended dumb...

Not a tired topic at all. I was just about to post this story, but found that you had already. It's horrifying, isn't it? Even middle-of-the-road cnn.com is presenting the story, linked from their homepage to their technology section...

Yes, of course I remember. And why would I respond any differently? Oh I have no difficulty understanding that there are people who "find it difficult to appreciate the music" made by someone whose presentation they don't care for, as the evidence for such objections is ample. But that will...

That's quite a statement.

Cindy Chen

Haha, the same thought occurred to me when I read Simon's post. Though I haven't seen the recent issue of Signal to Noise to which SR refers, I do know that Cindy Chen, the mentioned author, has been writing on dubstep in Signal to Noise for a while now: she wrote a favorable and informed...

Eno's publicist must have been doing his/her job recently, as I've seen this project repeatedly profiled in past weeks, in Art News, in the music mag Filter, and so on.

Laurie Anderson's tune "Speak My Language" was used effectively throughout Wong Kar-Wai's film Fallen Angels, and I like the tune very much: atmospheric, mildly propulsive, very precise in its mood. The backing band on the track consisted of Brian Eno, Jamie West-Oram (from the Fixx), and Joey...

You lost interest in a record, in the actual music, because of a photo shoot that was organized, staged, shot, edited, laid out, formatted, and printed by people at a magazine?

Difficult to imagine the past half century of music without him. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6672335

Haven't been able to see this yet b/c travelling/no access to adequate comp but am very eager to watch, I can only imagine how good it is.

Yes, the "Who Got The Beats?" 12" on Offshore came out fairly early in '06 and was a nice one, but I'd guess that his full-length album, Metropolitain Chic, from 2005, is still fairly representative of what he has been up to. He also did a mix using Ableton for knowledge mag in 2005 (wasn't all...

Rupture and violence now? This suggestion is nothing new, in fact it is by now a cliche that has been uttered and critiqued repeatedly and incessantly since it became fashionable, whether for you that 'when it became fashionable' was ancient Greece or the end of the 18th century or the end of...

DJ Clever and the Breakbeat Science folks released this at roughly the same time that Clever released his dubstep mix, perhaps a bit before. Has been out for a bit, was announced much earlier this year. I'm in so cal at the moment and the disc is in all of the record stores here.

Hello, sir. :D How are Bijou and End of an Epoch, by the way? Ran across both yesterday (stateside clearance sale: Tower Records going out of business, bargains galore, thrilling), and was curious, especially about the Dockstader soundtrack. Found Zeena Parkins' Necklace for three US dollars...

Amen to that.

Nice to see the affection for Johnny Dowd, as I had no real sense of how well known he might be in the UK. Dowd lives in my town, just saw him a couple of weeks ago, my gf interviewed him for a recent piece she wrote, maybe she'll post the transcript online. As mentioned, Molina is definitely...

SR on Factrix, Bond Bergland's band that preceded Saqqara dogs; discussion comes at the end of the piece, which itself is devoted to the argument that industrial music was a second "flowering" of psychedelia. The second flowering, he says in the final sentence, was rave. EDIT: woops, bit of...

I saw the US premiere of Ikeda's multi-media piece C4i two years ago and it was one of the most compelling things that I've ever experienced, period, full-stop. In a small art gallery, audience sitting on bleachers in front of a huge screen stretched across a concrete floor, towers of speakers...