Archive for March, 2009

Dirty Projectors // Rise Above

Friday, March 27th, 2009

a living breathing swirling fearless (composition-wise) mass of music, expanding, contracting, lashing in bits all over, gracefully hiding a steady and totally intentional inner pop sensibility. jangly, fizzy, spinning voice lines. uplifting in most all moments, insightful and honest when not.

Dan Auerbach // Keep It Hid

Friday, March 27th, 2009

superbly produced orchestrated and composed, soulful new blues, unbeatably charismatic and colorful singing, tons o fuzz n organ and tom, occasionally post-apocalyptic, constantly under the burning sun.

Abe Vigoda // Skeleton

Friday, March 27th, 2009

youthful, raucous, spring reverb drenched spangling guitars, steam engine rhythms, west coast post-punk, super fun, mysteriously harmonic

Animal Collective: Paradiso, Amsterdam

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Some front row pictures from a serendipitous concert.

Afuche @ 248 McKibben Loft party

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Some pictures of Brooklyn’s Afuche from this intimate loft performance

3 1/2 months in the womb, a legendary guitar is born

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Behold. The prettiest, meanest, guitar I’ve ever laid my hands on. Its a one-of-a-kind custom made Les Paul style guitar. Conceived in a shoppe in California, the unfinished body was in rough, rough shape before I brought it to luthier wizard and all around nice guy Evan Gluck. Evan did a masterful job [...]

Mark hits the fucking spot with designer genius, delivers sweatshirt I have not yet taken off

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

This is a handmade sweatshirt I received. Its designed, stitched, and bleached by my buddy Mark. Best gift I’ve received in a really long time and its easily one of the coolest things anyone’s ever made for me. Prior to receiving this sweatshirt, I had donned a red hooded sweatshirt everyday for almost [...]