My good friend / quasi half brother and talented archi-DJ Tomas Ceron has launched a blog containing some of his mixes and other music goodies. Go check it out at http://tomasceron.blogspot.com/ and make sure you’ve got your patent leather shoes on.
Patent leather shoes = zapatos de charol… calcule.
My good friend Gabe and I made it to Mr. Talking Head David Byrne’s concert at Radio City last night. Mr. Byrne was of course his quircky-goofy-smart-loose kneed self and the concert couldn’t have been better. He sang while walking backwards, spinning on a chair, wearing a tutu, running the talking heads run and completely intermingled himself with the choreographies. We both were probably amongst the youngest ones in the crowd, which means we got schooled on the knee-breaking-elbow-flapping dance moves of the 80′s.
I’ll post some clips later this week.
I made it tonight for the opening night at Alice Tully Hall for an incredible performance: Diaspora Sefardi, From Medieval Spain to Eastern Mediterranean. an exceptional concert of revived medieval songs and ballads in what I imagine can be considered old Castilian.
The show itself was just the excuse to make it to the building of course, and right from the approach, the building is truly fantastic: the huge lobby, with a gigantic glass paned curtain wall on one side and the warm wood behind the bar give it the right contrast between scale and warmth. The super long bar of course works wonderfully in crowded evenings like tonight. Heading towards the auditorium itself, the ceiling height is much lower and the scale becomes much more intimate. You walk below the ‘watch-me-im-uber-rich’ balcony then turn right and down towards the auditorium. Upon walking into the orchestra level there is a shift which is pretty surprising: the height from the floor to the balconies is quite low but it soon opens up. The scale of the space is just perfect and the wood/resin paneling looks incredible. It is quite remarkable how close everything looks to the original images. Truly a fantastic building, and can’t wait to go there in the summer.
A couple more images after the jump.
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My good friend Gabe and I made it last night to Irving Plaza to see Tricky. I had seen him play at the same venue about 5 years ago and the concert was horrible, so I had my doubts about this one. This time around though it was absolutely incredible.
Among the first set, was a cover of ‘The Lovecats’, The Cure’s amazingly good ’83 song. Every one of Maxinquaye’s (still a favorite) songs was beautifully performed. And his daughter (Masey?) rocked.
Saturday we made it to Liberty State Park in N.J. for the All Points West festival. The only reason for going on Saturday, for me, was to see Radiohead. Chromeo was also up in there in the list, but playing at 2 pm, there was no way I was going to make it.
Radiohead was of course incredible. They played 2+hours and had 2 encores. The visuals were pretty nice: two large screens as well as what seemed to me (from my spot) like strands of fiber optics hanging and creating simple patterns. The screens had 6 different views of the stage and every now and then some interesting patterns.
Some pics after the jump. Some clips coming up in a few days.
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Bunghole Bunghole Bunghole Bunghole. This might be the only rap song I could actually listen to.
Last Friday I made it to the Guggenheim’s final “First Fridays” of the season. I had been waiting to visit the Cai Guo-Qiang exhibit “I want to believe” in order to check it out during the party, although I was dying to see the exhibit.
The parties themselves are pretty fun, although they’ve become so popular they just get insanely packed and therefore the fun ratio vs. the annoying ratio gets shifted towards the annoying side. After 1 hour in there it is just impossible to move…
I’m still writing my take on the show, but, here are the images for now… I’ll complete this later on.
Trent Reznor keeps pushing the envelope regarding music freedom with his latest release: The Slip.
The album is being literally given away for free in four different formats including the artwork, all released under the Creative Commons “attribution noncommercial share-alike” license, so you’re free -and encouraged- to do with it as you please.
This is the post in NIN’s news:
(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years – this one’s on me)
Go download it at NIN or get the mp3 files here (86 megs).
via [wired]
I wonder what Radiohead will do now to top NIN…
Last night was Goldfrapp’s concert in The Beacon Theater. It was the first time I got to see her but it was very good.
It is always quite a treat seeing an absolutely incredible singer and Alison Goldfrapp is definitely one of them. She was getting over a cold (and complained a few times about how bad she sounded). The way she effortlessly goes to those glass shattering highs is quite astounding.
She also happened to look incredibly sexy wearing her skimpy little gown.
Go after the jump to see some lousy clips.
Finally, the animatic for our Radiohead video is done!
Go register and vote for our entry in the Aniboom here
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