Haha! I’m not the only one who hears the secret jazz in the screech of the Metro’s escalators.
There’s a remix the metro contest associated with that article, but it doesn’t include Archives/Navy Memorial.
Category Archives: music
"It's so white, Sarah Palin just named it her running mate for 2012."
Have you been following Maura Johnston and Christopher R. Weingarten’s countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010 over at the Village Voice? If not, now’s your chance to catch up. It’s worthy if only for the lengthy screed about their choice for #1 (worst) song, Train’s “Soul Sister.”
That’s one of the nicer things that can be said about that song. And I like ukuleles.
If you’d like to start at the beginning of the countdown, the front page is here.
(Link courtesy of Husband)
Apple's Beatles backslapping
By now you’ve probably heard that Apple made a big fucking deal over their “unveiling” of an authorized Beatles catalog available as digital downloads.
I try not to fawn in obsessively creepy ways when he attends a pho dinner, but I think the Washington Post’s Faster Forward columnist Rob Pegoraro is an excellent tech journalist. His post about this topic was especially good:
I’m sorry, were you expecting congratulations here?
Pegoraro then outlines all of the mis-steps that the Beatles management made along the way to this allegedly historic moment.
If you can’t be bothered to go read that post, I think this tweet sums the whole absurd announcement pretty well:
The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event
I was checking the movie listings for Tuesday night and saw this:
The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event
One of your favorite things returns to the big screen for two nights only on October 19 and 26 with The Sound of Music Sing-Along Event: 45th Anniversary Celebration! Don’t miss the opportunity to sing along with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in the extraordinary, Academy Award-winning classic back in theatres in true HD! Tickets on sale now! This exclusive event will entail the sing-along version of the fully restored feature with timeless hits like “The Sound of Music”, “Edelweiss”, “My Favorite Things”, “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” and “Do-Re-Mi.” Plus, see I’ll Sing Once More: The Sound of Music Today, and exclusive piece that pays tribute to this timeless classic by looking at The Sound of Music effects on popular culture.
I don’t want to go to the sing-along, but I it’s supposed to be a lovely weather in Orlando Tuesday evening and I want to go sit on the patio of the tequila bar next to the theater and people watch. Imagine the costumes!
Bonerama tells you what you missed Monday night
The benefit concert for Dear New Orleans Monday night at the Black Cat was fantastically fun.
New Orleans legends Bonerama played house band and they’ve posted a summary of the night on their blog. Joining them onstage: Jean Cook (Beauty Pill), Jenny Toomey (Tsunami) Tim Quirk (Too Much Joy/Wonderlick), Alex Maiolo, Mike Mills (REM), Damian Kulash (OK Go), Rebecca Gates (Spinanes), Erin McKeown, Hank Shocklee (Bomb Squad/Public Enemy), Timothy Bracy, Jonny 5 (Flowbots), and Jill Sobule.
You can buy the Dear New Orleans disk at the DearNo.La site, on Amazon and on itunes.
The background noise makes it a little bit of a labor of love to listen to, but this short interview with the always-groovy Tim Quirk explains how this show came about. (If you give it a view & just embrace the background noise, you’ll experience what it was like to be in my head when I woke up the morning after the show).
Air Traffic Control has been co-hosting artist activism retreats in New Orleans for the last four years. To mark the 5 year anniversary of the storm and floods we thought it appropriate to produce a benefit album. We started by asking the 60 alumni artists who participated in the retreats if they’d be interested in donating a track for a benefit album – we had no idea over half of them would send us music.
We are grateful they did.
Some of the songs that appear on this album are specifically about the city, or the disaster. Others pay a more oblique tribute, and still others are songs that the artist played at the concert we close each retreat with.
Dear New Orleans is a letter of gratitude and promise to the city and her people — to never forget what happened and to continue to rebuild.
For more on Air Traffic Control visit www.atctower.net
Dear New Orleans Beneficiary Organizations
Proceeds from the sale of this album will be granted to New Orleans based nonprofits working to support and sustain the region’s unique musical and cultural traditions, and to protect and restore vital environmental and community resources for future generations, such as:
The concert was produced by Air Traffic Control and the Future of Music Coalition in conjunction with the Future of Music Coalition’s 10th Anniversary Policy Summit.