Category Archives: Music

Music, my chief love. I probably spend at least 80% of my waking life listening to music. Maybe that’s sad. I occaisionally do reviews for the Chicago Maroon.

Poor hipsters

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Peter

Ha! Love the Herzog impression: From Poor hipsters « Lieke Voermans.

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Japanese Music Fans

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Peter

TDR: You mean, if the guys talk to fans, and let slip that they’re working the midnight shift at 7/11, or living on ramen and pachinko, it’ll be hard for the fans to picture him as a bisexual 17th century … Continue reading →

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An incredible combination

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Peter

David Byrne + Fatboy Slim + Santigold (+ others) + Imelda Fucking Marcos!?! Yes please! Shades of ADF on Gaddafi here.

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I know funny people

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Peter

Ouch, my neck. | William C. White I’m sort of an expert on this subject, since in my interior mental life, I have in fact attended most of the orchestral concerts, night club acts, and cocktail parties that took place … Continue reading →

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Shooting Airwaves

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Peter

Three years after I went to Iceland Airwaves for Stirred Up, our old designer Rasha went there to photograph it for Dazed & Confused: Making Airwaves. Cool! It made me dig out my old Airwaves photos and go through them. … Continue reading →

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Iggy Pop

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Peter

One of the coolest dudes around. And David Bowie is supporting him on piano!!!!

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Posted on October 8, 2009 by Peter

You got to hand it to CCP, Permaband is pretty good. From AudioPorn Central.

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Monkey Music

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Peter

Tamarin monkeys aren’t wild about human music but they like music specially composed for them.

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Mashups, the Funky Kind

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Peter

While I’ve been focusing a lot on web mashups recently, even closer to my heart are music mashups. I introduced friends to bunch of my favorite tracks last night and I figure I should share them here. Here are my … Continue reading →

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“I don’t read newspapers because they all have ugly print.”

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Peter

Who knew Mos Def was such a typography nerd? Listen to this remix of Six Days and enjoy. Soulwax also has a ridiculously good remix of Six Day: Thanks to Wikipedia I discovered that the original version is called Six … Continue reading →

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