Oh the irony. Just as we’re talking about pre-emptive strikes it appears the RIAA have taken lessons from Bush (or vice-versa) and plan to take out the evil file sharing minions of the internet.
“Meanwhile, as a pre-emptive strike, the record industry hired specialized software companies to flood the Internet with glitch-filled versions of songs […]

Al Gore speaks at the Commonwealth Club on Iraq and our role in the international war on terrorism. Get text of his speech here.
What will almost elude you in typical Gore subtlety (his genius is obscured by his monotone), is his brilliant likening of war as a “pre-emptive” strike against Iraq, to the Soviet’s […]

The lost album of Steel Pole Bathtub has surfaced. Ironically entitled “unlistenable”, the cd is now available on zero to one records. Better this than more Nirvana releases. Here are direct links to three of the songs on their wonderfully artistic but difficult to navigate website:
blackeyefixer.mp3
hotwaterintosteam.mp3
whatineed.mp3
SPBT will also be playing Beyond The Pale festival in […]

Jazz version of Paranoid Android by Brad Mehldau. You can find the whole thing pretty easy on the peer-to-peer network of your choice. First I laughed, but then it’s gets kind of cool on you. Whatever. It cools you over. Whatever’s cool with me.

Mtv would be a lot cooler if they revamped their programming to include more mature reality shows, like perhaps an Anarchist Scavenger Hunt. Which is actually taking place at this weekends IMF protests in DC. Well, in a promotional sense that is…the xtreme marketing of ‘anarchy’…

“Break a McDonald’s window, get 300 points. Puncture a Washington […]

Songs for Cassavetes is an interesting 16mm black and white look into the lives of Washington indy rockers from the mid to late 90’s. They talk about art, selling out and getting by.

“My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself […]

Wire, reunited after a dozen or so years, return not as a nostalgic reunion act but as serious industrial contenders. Last night at a well over capacity Echo Lounge they put on a very loud, short but focused set of mostly newer stuff, dark and fuzzy industrial two chorders. The classics came at the […]

Who is Atown’s premier rock act? A question posed last night…
Off the top of my head Mastodon.
Certainly the Strokes have paved the way for all retro rockers to come. Of the recent shows I’ve seen most opening acts seem to have some root rock influence of some sort. In the ATL we’ve got our […]

Fantasy to promote reality. Turns out football is for geeks after all…

“In a recent survey of 1,400 online users, the NFL found that fantasy players watch two to three more hours of football each Sunday than fans merely attached to reality.”

I like the whole ‘fantasy this or that’ movement. Takes me back to D&D days. […]

As the html standards compliant shiftyeye has already dutifully noted, this weekend saw Coldplay’s lead singer buy Harris a Jack and Coke at the Echo Lounge. Notable event. The Frames, from Ireland were actually the headlining act but by the end of the night I was convinced we were at an indie rave, with all […]