February 2012
19 posts
naming blogs is easy: she's a 'rebel' →
maura:
after getting wind of this weekend’s incident in which rihanna opened the floodgates for her 14 million-plus twitter followers to go after someone who criticized her decision to work with chris brown—namely by calling her interrogator fat and ugly and subsequently letting her followers know that…
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and now for some saturday night acid house...
FLAMENCO HOUSE CLASSIC…
RAUL ORELLANA - “THE REAL WILD HOUSE” (1989)
MASSIVE KORG M1 PIANO LINE RE-APPROPRIATED INTO THIS JAUNT:
ASMO - “JAM THE DANCE” (1990)
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“We’re glad to have him back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think...”
– why i couldn’t get out of bed this morning
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Target Acquired
March 2 – Sandwell District, Juju and Jordash, Morphosis(!) at Public Assembly (maybe THE techno show of the year?)
March 3 – Roomrunner, PC Worship, Sleepies, Liquor Store, Lantern at Shea Stadium
March 4 - Korallreven at Bowery Ballroom
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March 8 – Data Structures Midterm
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“I absolutely thought that Jungle was going to change the face of music. It...”
– MIKE SCHULMAN, founder of DROP BEAT records
….. and also slumberland
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I Felt Like Dropping Out of School But Then I...
Hope everybody is up to a good start for a Monday.
I don’t know if you are old enough to recall Whitney Houston in her glory days, but I certainly have been in shock for the last 24 hours or more. She was an idol, drawing on the historical repertoire of performances of the black diva and projecting her unique combination of those performances into the very meaning of popular music....
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COOL JENS LEKMAN REVELATION THAT I MADE TODAY VIA...
Famiglia Pizza on 111th and Broadway was playing this song on the radio today. I Shazam™’d it and found out it was called “Heatwave” by Martha Reeves and Vandellas.
I looked up the name of the song because I recognized the chord progression ——- JENS LEKMAN USED IT IN HIS BEST SONG EVER, THIS ONE:
Yelling the chorus to this at a Jens concert is really awesome, I...
“Oh, man, what a find. He’s sick of Obama ;) Interesting song selected...”
– MissCharlotteSometimes, commenter on SongMeanings
BROS 4 CHOICE, Sundays 2-4PM Eastern Time
Hey, I’m back this semester with a new show on my home of homes, WBAR Barnard College Radio.
It’s called Bros 4 Choice, attend it on Facebook so I can spam you about the great in-studios and guest DJ sets I’m planning. This is going to be one of the most important cultural institutions in New York City from now until May. Hope you’re on board::::::::
Sundays, 2-4PM,...
