Tuesday, December 13 2011
A Slice of Berlin in Los Angeles
Time takes away the meaning of an object. But then again, it also imbues an object, such as fragments of the Berlin Wall, with another.
Tuesday, October 11 2011
One Weekend, Thirty Geeks, Five Projects: ‘Hacking’ for a Good Cause
How a group of people hacked in to start-up culture to change the world.
Tuesday, July 12 2011
Digital Archeology: Digging Deep Into the Archives of Ancient Internet History
Imagine an old issue of Wired magazine, a monstrous cellphone (I think they were called “car phones” at that time), and a beat up Game Boy. Now, imagine the Internet, as it was, beside such artifacts.
Thursday, July 7 2011
Hall and Oates: Still Relevant. Still Rocking.
Hall and Oates use the internet and collaboration with young bands and artists to infuse their classic songs with modern sensibilities. This is why their concerts are filled with fans that were barely born when those songs were written.
Friday, April 15 2011
Record Store Day: The Cost in the Grooves
For a few hours each year, music geeks converge on indie record stores in hopes of scoring vinyl Holy Grails -- and then scurry back to their computers to watch auction prices soar on the items they didn’t get.
Thursday, April 14 2011
An Infectious Case of Jazz Fanaticism
What happens when you take two friends who know little about jazz to a club for a night of totally spontaneous "eek-onk" music? The results can be surprising.
Monday, March 7 2011
The Blessing and the Curse of the Grammys
Bieber Fever raged when Esperanza Spalding bumped the boy aside to claim the 2011 Grammys Best New Artist award, but do jazz fans really give a damn about the Grammys?
Monday, August 23 2010
Chilled to Spill: How The Oil Spill Ruined Chillwave’s Summer Vacation
Empty nostalgia or a realignment of values, chillwave's alchemical waste-sounds may be on the cusp of a deadbeat summer.
Friday, September 4 2009
Ride This Time Machine Down a Road Less Traveled
Jump into that ’59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with the maxed-out tailfins, contemplate what an original Barbie doll could fetch on eBay, and enjoy this roll call of Reasons Why Everything Changed in 1959.
Tuesday, February 3 2009
Concert Overload
Free-for-all shows are like a "cool" parent trying to be your friend, instead of your authority figure. While it seems like a good situation at first -- no curfew, no rules -- you realize, eventually, that what it really needs is some structure.
Tuesday, December 9 2008
CMAs and the End of Genre or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kid Rock
This year's CMA winners point to a future where the only thing necessary to be classified as country is a desire to join in and sing.
Monday, November 10 2008
Forty-Nine Hours at T-Dot Town’s Annual Small World Music Festival
Today's global music is an extension of the culture that has been emerging over the last century, when airplanes and vinyl recordings made social exchanges possible to an extent previously undreamed.
Tuesday, September 2 2008
Event Etiquette
Enthusiasm at sporting events and concerts is great. But when your spirited dancing turns into a one-man mosh pit, it's a damned annoying distraction.
Monday, July 28 2008
Gone Festin’
Yes, communing with thousands of music fans at summer festivals is fun...for a while. But then it becomes a group of people whom you really didn't plan on spending your weekend with, unless you typically hang out with stoned 16-year olds.
