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  Adventures in YouTubin’: Holiday Edition

  12.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Some of my holiday favorites from Kenny Bloggins to you and yours…

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  Adventures in Shortwave, Part 1

  10.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m a huge shortwave radio enthusiast (which is a really strange hobby for a 24 year old to have), and certainly a fan of the Conet Project.  I have a rather in-depth article on hold right now that will explore the use of shorwave, CB, numbers stations, and other esoteric broadcast in music.  For the [...]

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  Adventures in YouTubin’

  10.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m really good at the Internet. I find awesome videos. I share some of my favorites with you. It’s a nice change from posting MP3s and waxin’ on why they’re awesome/not awesome.

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• Rockshows, Visual Aids

  My Bloody Valentine - 9.27.08 - The Aragon, Chicago - Videos and Setlist

  09.29.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  I’m not going to review the My Bloody Valentine show, at least in the traditional sense. Any show review more than a couple of paragraphs long while taking itself very seriously is innately stupid. At that juncture, such writing is fodder-saturated music critic masturbation, an attempt at trying to connect multiple points together and relate [...]

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  My Bloody Valentine - 9.27.08 - The Aragon, Chicago

  09.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  More on their way, probably tomorrow… in the meantime enjoy “I Only Said”.

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  Califone - “The Orchids” in Chicago - 8.11.08

  08.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Califone played Monday, 8.11.08, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in Chicago as part of the Audible Architecture Concert Series and Pitchfork’s Nightclubs at Noon Series. I caught Califone back in November of ‘06 as they were pushin’ Roots and Crowns. Though the show was good, it was held in an art space [...]

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  88Boadrums - Photos and 8 Videos From L.A.

  08.11.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Christ wilikers. Jason Savvy is straight up awesome style. He emailed me yesterday and offered up a nice dusk-time peek through the 88 Boadrums’ looking glass. In tandem with the theme, Jason shot eight videos at 88 seconds a piece, and included some choice photos. I’m totally digging the Close Encounters of [...]

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  First 88Boadrums Video

  08.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  And here’s the first video that surfaced from the Brooklyn performance conducted by Gang Gang Dance. I would’ve undoubtedly elected to watch/participate in this than watch the Olympic opening ceremonies or whatever. Feels like marching to war, doesn’t it? This sounds soooo good. If anyone who went has some decent shots, [...]

• Rockshows, Visual Aids

  Pitchfork Recap: Boris

  07.21.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Click on the photos to see a larger, higher resolution version.
  Despite that fact that the sun radiated full force on Union Park, baking the crowd in 95+ degree weather, Boris was too dark and mysterious to not wear black. Czech the gong.

  Boris’ set was very tight and put the crusty dude contingent of Pitchfork [...]

• Rockshows, Visual Aids

  Pitchfork Recap: Spiritualized and Caribou

  07.21.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  It’s obligatory photo recap time! Unfortunately, I couldn’t get a press pass this year, so many of the following photos prominently feature the back of people’s domes. Click on the photos to see a larger, higher resolution version.
  After two months of flawless weather in Chicago, the climate waited until the most excellent of [...]