Vinyl

I need to find this, Alan Zweig’s documentary, Vinyl.

Thank you Things Magazine.

Sneeze

I stumbled across this earlier today while walking to brunch. Little did I know this box was the only place to purchase this magazine in NYC, and the whole East Coast.

From the Sneeze website:

STREET BOX PROGRAM
The goal is to create a
destination for the reader by
having one box per city in a
select location — like a
flagship store.

More info on Sneeze can be found here with a preview of the first issue here.

The magazine can be also purchased on line here.

Aarron Rose Dialogue

Steve Heller interviews Aarron Rose, Co-Director/Producer of Beautiful Losers. Read the interview here. Please note the link is for a .PDF file.

For those of you living in the NYC area the film will be showing at the IFC Center 08/08 – 08/28, purchase tickets here.

Graphic Design On The Radio

Listen here.

Wordless Music Series

Stars of the Lid played a limited amount of shows recently, one of them for the Wordless Music Series here in New York. Unfortunately, I was unable to get tickets for the show but, Radiolab has posted their live performance here. As expected, it is blissful. Enjoy.

Upcoming

06/20

PREFUSE 73
ACME

Performing Chen Yi’s Sound of Five, for string quintet, and Kevin Volans’ She Who Sleeps, for solo percussion. A free concert. Co-presented with Whitney Live.

The Whitney Museum
Madison Avenue & East 75th Street

08/15

“800 YEARS OF MINIMALISM”
MANUEL GOTTSCHING: E2-E4
RHYS CHATHAM: A CRIMSON GRAIL
BEATA VISCERA: THE MUSIC OF PEROTIN

Damrosch Bandshell
Columbus Avenue & West 62nd Street

Playing the building

Playing the Building
An Installation by David Byrne

05/31 -08/10/2008
Battery Maritime Building
10 South Street, NYC

FREE

More information at Creative Time .

NYT article here .

A short update

As I said in my previous post I have been quite busy these last few weeks and it doesn’t look like it is going to let up anytime soon. Please be patient. I have a few topics I would like to cover so once I am over this posting dry spell I will have much to write.

I changed my theme to something a little more straight forward, I did like the intensions of the Hemingway theme but it needs to be updated and I would rather not tweak the CSS now or write my own. Enjoy the new look. The font is Keedy from Emigre which can be purchased here. (More on Emigre in a later post.)

My current playlist:

Russell Haswell Live Salvage 1997 -> 2000
An amazing record. The clerk at AKA summed it up best, “brutal record man”.

Willits + Sakamoto Ocean Fire
This is what I was expecting last year’s Fennesz + Sakamoto record to sound like. Thick, pastoral, ambient music.

Sawako Madoromi
Beautiful.

My current reads:

Dot Dot Dot 15

Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now Fred Smeijers [Thanks T3]

The Dirt Motley Crue. [Thanks Nay]

Ahh yeah…Again and Again

Dillagence: J Dilla & Busta Rhymes, Mixed by Mick Boogie

1. Words from Ma Dukes
2. Dillagence (produced by DJ Spinna)
3. Takin’ What’s Mine
4. Step Up
5. The Conversation feat. Talib Kweli
6. Code of the Streets feat. MOP
7. Lightworking feat. Q-Tip & Talib Kweli
8. Baggage Handlers feat. Raekwon
9. How We Roll
10. Best That Ever Did It feat. Rah Digga
11. Psycho feat. Cassidy & Papoose
12. Another Day At The Range feat. Rah Digga
13. Not Right Now
14. Other Side of the Road
15. Who Tryin to Kill You
16. High
17. Dillagence Outro

Here Rappcats [Lord Quas]

Sounds

I will be posting every so often what I have been listening to, either as a full post or at the end of posts.

Christina Kubisch – Five Electrical Walks [Important Records] – I love it!

More on Christina here and here .

Looking back

Traditionally, year in review lists are some what hard for me to put together; this year was even harder with some personal and family issues arising, me being out of the loop, and me not keeping a list the whole year. With that being said my list for 2007…

The highlight of the whole year is me getting engaged to my girlfriend Nadene who without I would not be the person I am today.

Music:

Burial – Untrue
Fennesz + Sakamoto – Cendre
Pharoahe – Desire
Ghostface – Big Doe Rehab
Sir Richard Bishop – While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
James Blackshaw – The Cloud Of Unknowing
Growing – Vision Swim
Madlib – Beat Konducta in India
Earth – Hibernaculum
Jodi Cave – For Myria
Tarentel – Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Moon
Pjusk – Sart

Other:

Carsten Nicolai: Static Balance @ PaceWildenstein
Frank Bretschnider @ OFFF
Neville Brody @ OFFF
Tom Recchion, Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia @ No Fun Fest
Music Is A Better Noise @ PS 1