Total silence on the blog for the last while as I've been out partying recklessly, indiscriminately, and without interruption. I'm seizing this summer by the throat, goddamit.

Mark, however, has been busy as hell, and has a particularly trenchant post about the closure of Vancouver's A&B Sound locations and the probable future of indie record ( Read more... )

Rogerio Duprat was an avant-garde Brazilian composer (he was a devotee of Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez) and intimate of the tropicalista circle. He did the string and orchestra arrangements for almost every 60's and early-70's release by a tropicalia artist, including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, and Gal Costa, as well as Chico ( Read more... )

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I've been trying to enjoy the summer as much as possible. Went to Fake Sleep at the Cobalt last wednesday and had my mind expanded by Empty Love's dream machine again, and then Josh Stevenson did some awesome stuff with his oscillators-in-a-suitcase. Ian James (one half of Blouse, along with Sick Buildings' Josh Rose) played after and apparently ( Read more... )

"You can never go home again, but you can identify what it was that you liked about your home and maintain those presences in your current life in a way that achieves an almost totally satisfying approximation."

From a Chris Onstad interview in the New Yorker.Man, have I ever been not blogging. I have done and seen literally dozens of things in ( Read more... )

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A while back, Sam tagged me to do a song meme. I really haven't felt like writing about music, though -- not even 7 tiny blurbs. So I made a new muxtape instead. You can listen to it hereThis is the tracklist ( Read more... )

Don't forget, my friends, that the Vancouver International Jazz Festival starts on friday. With Graeme out of town, I have very few people to get stoked about jazz with, but there is a lot of great stuff this year, and while a lot of it is expensive, there are always some good free shows, and there are a few things so good that you really ought to ( Read more... )

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