January 2011
6 posts
I Talk With Chaz Bundick of Toro y Moi
For Interview magazine online.
Toro y Moi’s second album is called Underneath the Pine and I’ve been listening to it daily for over a month. Chaz spent much of last year on the road. Judging by the new record, it seems he cozied up to lots of old European film scores and proto-disco records between gigs. Underneath the Pine is a funky and sonically fragile collection of songs. Which...
Situationist Comedy: Author Ken Knabb in San...
“Religion,” Ken Knabb wrote in 1978, “undoubtedly surpasses every other human activity in sheer quantity and variety of bullshit.” It’s Knabb’s own lack of, er, bunk that’s helped him rally would-be radicals around his area of expertise, a Paris-born, Marx-bred group of avant-gardists called the Situationist International. Tonight is your chance to catch...
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Pazz & Jop Ballot
The 37th Pazz and Jop critic’s poll published in this week’s Village Voice. Though I’m not a music critic, I am easily flattered. So here’s my ballot.
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Joanna Newsom Talks
And I listen — for The Economist online:
What was the most recent piece of music you listened to with your full attention?
The last time I was home, my record player had just been fixed, after months of being out of commission, so I spent a lot of time doing nothing but sitting and listening to music. I love my record collection so much at the moment! I feel a sort of weird pride about it, the...
A Postcard from the Future
My 2011 music predictions are in the latest SF Weekly. I cheated this year, phoning my tips in to San Francisco from some distant future. My findings include such bombshells as this 21st century-shaping fact:
Vampire Weekend became Vampire Monday when the indie rockers were forced to get day jobs after their Vampire Trust Funds ran out. The fallout was felt throughout Brooklyn’s indie-rock...