Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: The clubs editor for one of our papers runs into an occupational hazard and thereafter has trouble exercising her critical faculty enough to muster a proper review of a DJ competition…
Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia is half of the legendary DJ duo known as Deep Dish. Striking out on his own, he’s crafted an appealing sound that recalls his work with Dish while expanding those horizons considerably, like a wild-eyed, experimental side of Deep Dish — still in service to the beat,…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice media empire: Hip-hop needs more pie charts, as this post proves elegantly as it breaks down the latest offerings from Jay Z, Kanye and Wu-Tang visually. An explication of rock and roll more pure…
Every superhero has a secret identity — even the ones who spend their days hustling tips as the self-proclaimed “ambassadors to Hollywood Boulevard.” Confessions of a Superhero, opening tonight at Starz FilmCenter in the Tivoli and running through November 29, is an X-ray view of the lives of four performers…
Miguel Migs knows his history. His soulful, song-oriented deep house draws heavily on the style’s disco roots, tinting it with soul, funk, hip-hop and reggae influences. In the studio, Migs employs live musicians and soulful vocalists, skillfully blending organic elements with electronic textures and programmed beats to create ultra-slick yet…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice media empire: Music, context and a dictatorial personality in a diminutive frame: A live review of MIA in San Francisco. What is the sound of one head banging? The http://blogs.clevescene.com/cnotes/2007/11/punkturnedpriest_brad_warner_t.php” target=”_blank”>tale of a punk…
Enter a spellbinding world of mystery and suspense tonight at the premiere of Depth of Illusion, a show that combines stories, dynamic music and incredible acts of illusion in a captivating performance that goes well beyond the traditional magic show. Created and performed by Nick Felix, the act includes the…
The original Star Trek series lasted less than three seasons, but in the forty years since it first aired, it’s created a cultural legacy of which few other entertainment properties can even dream. It’s spawned four additional TV series, an animated version, ten feature films and a seemingly infinite number…
Metal has always been a little cartoonish, so it’s no surprise that the biggest, best, most brutal metal band of all time is literally a cartoon. Utter masters of shreddingly awesome metal, Dethklok, stars of Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse, have descended to utterly destroy college campuses across the nation. This may…
The genre-hopping, boundary-defying mixes of DJ Chloe are like a long, scenic trip through the fringes of dance music. At one point she’ll luxuriate in the spacey, wide-open arrangements of ambient, letting gurgling filter sweeps push things along. Seconds later she’s transitioned into the kind of unadorned synthesizer tones and…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice Media empire: My interest in Gogol Bordello is officially increased by a thousand percent after reading this review that compares the singer to Cousin Balki, from the ‘80s show Perfect Strangers, on a liter…
Gentlemen, polish your best British accent, practice your witty one-liners and prepare to step into the shoes of suave secret agent James Bond. Ladies, slip on a cocktail dress and adopt a suggestive double entendre as a pseudonym, and who knows? Maybe you’ll meet the Bond of your dreams. Tonight’s…
There’s something innately impressive about being the DJ with the most releases in the Global Underground series, arguably the best known and best respected series of DJ mix albums. And Nick Warren (due at the Church on Thursday, November 1) has six excellent releases in the collection. Those mixes, coupled…
Kevin Drew is pacing the streets of Birmingham, England, a little on edge and distinctly agitated. Two days ago, Bill Priddle, a guitarist he calls “the driving force in terms of the guitar playing in the band,” broke his collarbone, putting the future of Drew’s tour in jeopardy. “We’re kind…
Here’s a sample of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice Media empire: If the words “Sex Pistols reunion show” fill you with disgust and hatred read ” target=”_blank”>this. Hell, read it even if they don’t, it’s good. The world’s greatest living music writer ruminates…
If you love the macabre but crave a more sophisticated scare, then Capitol Hill Horror Stories at the Grant-Humphreys Mansion, 777 Pennsylvania Street, is just the trick for you. Historian Tom Noel, also known as Dr. Colorado, and a cast of famous and infamous characters from Denver’s past — including…
Nothing shows a genuine love and devotion for collecting toys like going face-down in a metal tub full of water in the “Bobbing for Action Figures” activity at the Collectors Supershow and MajestiCon Comics Con, taking place today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ramada Plaza Convention Center…
On La Cucaracha, Ween continues its tradition of delivering polymorphous albums full of brilliant, warped pop songs graced with lyrics that range from the nonsensical to the silly to the outright offensive. Sliding effortlessly between styles, genres and sounds, the album finds the Brothers Ween making odd juxtapositions and placing…
After fifteen-minute phenomenon Death From Above 1979 melted down, bassist Jesse Keeler joined up with producer Al P to make MSTRKRFT his full-time gig. MSTRKRFT takes the anarchic dance-punk chaos of Keeler’s former band and transmutes it into teched-out, disco-fueled electro-house. Raw, growling synthesizer tones chug out big, infectiously catchy…
Here’s a brief look at some of the items Americans are desperate to learn about today: Paciolan That’s Paciolan, as in, the reason you can’t get your Rockies tickets today. It’s the company responsible for the software that died an ignoble and horrific death at the hands of 8.5 million…
Here’s a sample of the week’s best music blogging from around the Village Voice Media empire: Okay, you can go to your gig, but be home by 9:30, it’s a school night: A fantastic piece on Care Bears on Fire, a pre-pubescent punk trio. Satan, self-mutilation, porn stars, a mind-bogglingly…
An accident in I-70’s Eisenhower Tunnel uncovers a forty-year-old conspiracy at the heart of American history in the first chapters of The Mongoose Deception, the latest CJ Floyd mystery. Floyd is up against the biggest mystery of his life, and perhaps the biggest of all time: Who really killed JFK?…
