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Beautiful Mutants Were Heard In The Distance: Devo at Penn’s Landing
Author: Jeff Boule
When you think of Devo, certain things just don’t come to mind. Power chords, heavy, loud styles of music and guitars. Well at Penn’s landing on June 28th, Devo was all that and more! Performing their “stadium/festival” set; these are tracks that they can perform without the assistance of midi, sequencers or anything of that ilk. As if stripped down to their possible beginnings, Devo provided tones to enrage and engorge the attendees. Read the rest of this entry »
read comments (0)Camden - Susquehanna Center - June 19 2008
Author: Carl Homrighausen
We arrived to the wonderful stench of Camden, which is always an awe-inspiring thing. Truth be told, there’s nothing in Camden except a battleship, and aquarium, and an amphitheatre that I can honestly view as a second home. Thank you, Susquehanna Center, for making Camden worth existence.
Vision Festival XIII: The Aftermath
Author: Anthony Medici
A few stray thoughts, dear Readers, fueled by potent antibiotics to treat a nasty case of bronchitis, following the epic Vision Festival XIII in New York City, which I blogged about last week. To wit: Is the Free Jazz aesthetic in need of a makeover? Is jazz radio WBGO (Newark) in need of a makeover? Click the link and read on. Read the rest of this entry »
Summer Songs
Author: Dee
VISION FESTIVAL XIII: Shock and Awe
Author: Anthony Medici
I’m still somewhat agog over the recent Vision Festival XIII in New York City, produced by Arts for Art, Inc. If one word could sum it up, it would be: Intensity. The music, the playing, the heat, the marathon hours. They all contributed to feelings equal part rapture and exhaustion. Being somewhat new to the free jazz scene, I did not know what to expect, but came away feeling deeply moved. Driving away from the festival site on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a lot of the music on the radio felt pallid and tired and derivative. To borrow a phrase that was all the rage about five years ago, the festival produced a sense of shock and awe.
Keith Kenny CD Release Party: Limit is the Sky
Author: Leigh Silbernagel
Keith Kenny CD Release Party: Limit is the Sky
June 17, 2008- Keith Kenny is a band that instills new respect for music’s ability to expand one’s horizons and way of viewing the world. Aptly titled, “Limit is the Sky,” Keith Kenny’s first CD (http://keithkenny.net/) is a celebration of classic blues rock combined with country influences, skilled musicianship and demanding instrumental part writing.
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Velocifero
Author: Carl Homrighausen
When Velocifero was first pulled into the CD player in my car’s dash, I really didn’t know what to expect. Ladytron is a band that has stunned me more with each album they release, just picking up speed as they go. As the motor pulled their most recent effort into the player, I thought to myself how their last release, Witching Hour, is the pinnacle of what Ladytron can do. I thought to myself that after observing their maturation over various releases, there was no way they could beat that album. I thought wrong. Read the rest of this entry »
How’re we doing?
Author: Brett
I dunno if you readers out there are interested in sharing your thoughts, but I’m definitely interested in hearing them. What kind of blog posts do you like the best? Is there anything we could be doing better? If you’d like to help shape the future for this blog, throw in your 2 cents and post a comment here.
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Dissin’ Wynton and Other Pretenders
Author: Anthony Medici
Last week I blogged (I suppose one can’t say ‘wrote’ anymore) about some of my jazz faves. Yawn, right? Anyway, continuing the theme, this week I’ll blog about some of my –well, what is the opposite of “favorites” anyway? Whatever it is, these musicians are it. Some pretty famous names are on this list of those that I just don’t dig. For one reason or another, these folks are either underperformers, overrated, or artistically stale. You listening, Wynton?
Indian Summer
Author: Rob White
I noticed a fellow blogger tried desperately to categorize emo music in three paragraphs, this is not a good idea. Emo is difficult, its hard to understand. With all the bullshit press and hype around emo bands these days, its hard to really know when anything began or (in most peoples opinion) ended. Sure, you can say that Weezer’s “Pinkerton” is the most defining emo album of the nineties, and once you drink your cherry coke and sit back and agree that Rolling Stone is still relevant, you can bob your head to the new Death Cab for Cutie album on mtv’s “leak” Read the rest of this entry »