In honor of my recent SPIN review of Rage Against the Machine’s return to live domination, I’ve resurrected my first concert review ever — of RATM at the Oakland Arena in 1999, published in, wait for it, my high school paper, The Spartan Spectrum. Apparently, “they thoroughly rocked the crowd.”
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Posted in live reviews, rando
Tagged Gangstarr, Oakland Arena, Rage Against The Machine, RATM
Catching up on older stuff. A few weeks back, photog Graeme Flegenheimer and I road tripped it up to the Henry Miller Library to catch the iconic Angelenos in action. New songs, old songs, although strangely not this song. Oh well. SPIN.
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Tagged Big Sur, Henry Miller, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RHCP, road trip
She thrashes.
You laugh now, but when live band dubstep becomes a thing, the didgeridoo will be an integral part of the movement. #returnofjamiroquai #incubass
(Photo by Sharon Alagna)
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Tagged aboriginal chic, American Apparel, Blond Chili, comedy, didgeridoo, dubstep
Music journalism never dies. It just gets lazy.
Wanna intern for one writer’s music blog? I can’t pay, but I’ll teach you how to do make cool things like that (^), and tell you about the time I drank Alize and did the Humpty Dance on stage with Digital Underground, and we can laugh together at Hipster Runoff and people who haven’t heard of Arcade Fire. It’ll be grand and, most importantly, Aural Standards will be updated on the regular. Wouldn’t that be nice? Yes? Good, now that we’re agreed, please sign below. Fine print? Oh, that’s just food. I spill a lot. Yeah.
Mount Eerie (Phil Elverum, Microphones) filled my head with fog.
Alert: confessional time. (Isn’t that what blogs are for? No, silly, that’s what they were for in the early aughts.) The A.V. Club is, um, blessed with a very, er, active readership. Check out the comments sections on my reviews for a glimpse into their troll-like wonderful ways. They also get to ask us questions, which is really great, and a recent query sent us flipping back through our memories to find one of our “best shared cultural experiences.” Lots of great answers over here.
Art by Will Carsola of Daybyday Productions
The super talented duo of Dave Stewart and Will Carsola, collectively Daybyday Productions, are working on making their first feature film, “an absurd satire of human psychology” dubbed The Nowhere. You will laugh your balls off, as well as cry your ovaries out. It’s just that kind of a movie. The thing is, they need some help making it happen, and they’ve set up a page to make the process surprisingly painless. Check it out here. It’s better than donating blood! If you aren’t familiar with these dudes, check ‘em out on Funny or Die.
White boy wasted.
Due to WordPress-derived technical difficulties, I can’t actually embed the video on Aural Standards, but it’s worth a click or two to watch. Dig in!
Lykke Li poses for the new issue of Spin.
Two things. One, pick up the new issue of Spin to read David Marchese‘s fantastic cover story on the lovely Ms. Lykke Li. (I’ve got a pony in that race too, of course — OFWGKTA, swag you very much.) Two, check out my review of her new album, Wounded Rhymes, at the A.V. Club.
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