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Six Seconds Of Significance

From an e-mail sent to friends:

Even though this is a mass e-mail, each and every one of you should listen to this description of a six second clip of music, how it’s impacted music, and what it represents in cultural reproduction and copyright conditions. I guarantee you will enjoy it and learn a lot from it, including basics of post-1980 music, the foundation to most of the music I enjoy, and the current battles regarding copyright reform.

You’ll need a computer, broadband Internet access, and the time to let it fully download and then listen to it. There’s no need to watch the accompanying video, so just have your speakers turned on and listen away.

Also, I should thank DS for bringing this to my attention.

http://nkhstudio.com/pages/amen_mp4.html

Album Reviews

1———–>3————>5
Terrible——–>Fantastic

5
Arctic Monkeys Beneath The Boardwalk
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Day I Am, Thats What I’m Not
Various Artists Dubstep Warz Breezebloc (20060110)
Mos Def Jam On It
Mylo Essential Mix (20050410)
Stereolab Cobra & Phases Play Voltage in the Milky Night [Import Bonus Tracks]
Tangerine Dream White Eagle
Tiga Sexor

4
A Guy Called Gerald 28 Gun Bad Boy
A Guy Called Gerald Black Secret Technology
Cox, Carl That’s the Bass
Mos Def Dangerous Mix, The
Mos Def We Are Hip Hop
Mos Def and Minnesota Bronx Meets Brooklyn
Various Artists New York Noise Dance Music from the New York Underground, 1978-82
Stereolab Group Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, The
Stereolab Peng!

3
4Hero Parallel Universe
Various Artists African Chillout Beats
Alkan, Erol Live Bugged Out (200507)
Coldcut Sound Mirrors
Various Artists Complete Keynote Collection
DJ Shadow Box Set Mix 01
Jackie-O Motherfucker Fig. 5
Lewis, Jenny with the Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat
Medina Green You Know The Flex
Moraes, Angel Back To My Roots
Tosca Souveniers [Remixed]

2
Various Artists Big Dada 2005 Sampler
DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist Brainfreeze
Duque, Abe Live at Link (20050712)
Flashbulb, The Resent And The April Sunshine Shed
Flashbulb, The These Open Fields (2nd Edition)
Gossip, The Standing In The Way Of Control
Pixies Trompe le Monde
Whale Al Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones

1
Cam’ron Purple Haze
Kano Beats And Bars
Saint Etienne Tales from the Turnpike House
Urban Thermo Dynamics Urban Thermo Dynamics

Bands MIA In DC?

I am realizing that bands frquently skip DC for shows. I can understand why this happens in Pittsburgh (it is not along convenient tour routes, smaller market), but DC is odd. I suspect it has to do with venue difficulty, including the 930 Club’s “aggressive” appropriation of revenues but this cannot be the entire story.

For fun and out of bitterness, I intend to keep a list of bands not coming to DC.

Today I found out Fiery Furnaces will not be coming to town, even though they sold out Black Cat and 930–one of my favorite shows of 2005–in their two most recent appearances. And it is not a West Coast tour situation, as they will be going through the area from New Haven, CT to Charlottsville, VA and then could again swing through the area from Pittsburgh (interesting) to Ithaca, NY.

And other DC snubs I have recently come across include The Strokes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs (but this is a mini-tour with a full tour coming post-album release).