I remember where I was when the news broke to me that Jhonn Balance, much beloved singer and co-founder of the experimental music band, Coil, passed away. Approximately three weeks after I returned to Seattle, I was walking down Broadway contemplating what awaited me the following day, which was to be my first day of [...]
I nearly hyperventilated when I discovered that Miss Kittin and The Hacker are touring the U.S. and Canada this September, via their American booking agency, The Windish Agency. WOW! This is very exciting. After a check of the official websites and MySpace pages of both Miss Kittin and The Hacker, I didn’t see any confirmation [...]
So I leave for New York City in exactly one week from tonight and my allergies are fraking kicking my ass BIGTIME. It’s exactly like what happened a couple of days into my New York trip last year after I went to visit Ground Zero. Hopefully I will clear up in time for this year’s [...]
Gas - Zauberberg [Mille Plateaux; 2008 reissue forthcoming on Kompakt]
Coil - The Ape of Naples (2008 vinyl with The New Backwards) [Important/Threshold House]
Matmos - Supreme Balloon [Matador]
Anthony Rother - Super Space Model [Datapunk]
Portishead - Third [Mercury]
Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune [Metropolis]
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! [Anti]
Diamanda Galas - Guilty Guilty [...]
5 years was well worth the wait to see Ellen Allien spin at Chop Suey this past Thursday. She was great and she looked gorgeous! I told my co-worker Friday morning that I was convinced that Ellen is the Jennifer Aniston of Berlin electronica. She totally resembled a German Jennifer, dressed in a sleeveless halter [...]
The Noise is officially declaring May 1 Ellen Allien Day in celebration of her appearance tonight here in Seattle at Chop Suey.
I’ve been hooked on her music ever since the first time I heard Stadtkind. I even started a tribe on Tribe devoted to her and Miss Kittin. I have waited at least 5 years [...]
I recently came up with the idea to construct, recollect, reconstruct, and create a live show archive for my blog. Basically, I wanted to try and come up with a master list of every single (God willing) concert, instore appearance, comedy show, and festival show I’ve ever seen in my entire life. At one point in [...]
…and I don’t mean the band.
ATP Festival just announced that My Bloody Valentine is headlining their New York installment of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival happening September 19-21, 2008. Elsewhere, I’ve read that MBV (according to their booking agent) is planning to play in 6 to 8 U.S. cities in September. I hope that they at least perform [...]
…that’s Birchville Cat Motel, in case you didn’t know. I’ve heard interesting things about BCM (which actually is just one guy, a New Zealander named Campbell Kneale), although I don’t know a whole lot about him. But, he’s collaborated with other folks, including Sonic Youth’s Lee Renaldo. He runs two labels, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and Battlecruiser, [...]
