Music
Le Butcherettes on Tour
I had the good, no make that great, fortune of seeing Le Butcherettes live last year at Rough Trade in Brooklyn.
In Barn for Review
In Barn: Almost
Here’s a current list of the gear that’s headed to the Barn for review:
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: John Prine
I love John Prine like a dear friend. His first record, John Prine, from 1971 is Master-Class, Grade A songwriting. The Tree of Forgiveness continues that tradition after a 13-year respite where Prine mines the everyday for nuggets of wisdom and beauty.
Music
Haruki Murakami DJ
Anyone who has read anything by Haruki Murakami knows he loves music. Anyone who has dug a wee bit deeper knows he used to own a jazz bar/club/coffee house in Toyko called Peter Cat. Come August 5, he’ll be DJing a set on Tokyo FM. […]
Art&Culture
Inspiration: Soap Bubbles
Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould Them by C.V. Boys first published in 1896 caused quit a stir. In fact, its ripples of influence spread to writers and artists far and wide and helped tip the scales of the rational toward the absurdist. Amen.
Art&Culture
John Cage: Notations
I didn’t know about Notations when I found it in the Rare Book Room at the Strand Book Store. That said, I didn’t discover Notations any more than a hiker discovers Versailles. But that didn’t stop me from feeling a deep sense of discovery (I’m […]
Music
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: The Roxy July 7, 1978
Talk about choices! Let’s talk about these download options.
Art&Culture
The First Streaming Service: Thaddeus Cahill’s Telharmonium
Thaddeus Cahill was born 1867 in Oberlin, Ohio and by the age of 14 he’d built his first telephone receiver to play with and read Helmholtz’s On the Sensation of Tone, which set his fertile imagination on fire. He became an attorney and moved to […]
Music
Recommended Reading: This Is Your Brain On Music
“As Simon Baron-Cohen has described it, with all this sensory cross talk, the infant lives in a state of complete psychedelic splendor (without the aid of drugs).” Our brains develop into perfect musical receivers right around the time of puberty (but we already kinda knew […]
Art&Culture
MASS MoCA: A Dream (Place) Come True
I graduated from Bennington College in 1985 and at that time MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) was but a rumor (at least as far as I knew). The abandoned factories that lined the Hoosic River in North Adams, MA sat in wait, like […]
Art&Culture
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: The Need for Seed
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is what it says—a place for the safekeeping of over 890,000 seed samples from nearly every country in the world. Why do we need it? Global food security.
Music
The Quietus Offers Up Their Fav 100 Albums of 2018 (so far)
If you’ve recently thought to yourself—”Where’s all the new music?” The Quietus has your answer.
In Barn for Review
In Barn: Google Chromecast Ultra
Google Chromecast Ultra ($69.00). In addition to its TV chops (I want the Criterion Chanel), Google’s Chromecast devices are now Roon-Ready making them prime candidates for a TM review.
Album of the Week
Album of the Week: Welles
Do you like T. Rex? I do because I enjoy hook-rich rock. If you like T. Rex, you’ll like Welles.
In Barn for Review
In Barn: PS Audio Sprout100
PS Audio Sprout100 integrated amplifier/DAC ($599.00).