Concert Vibes.
Janelle Monae last night at Highline.
ME: The camera boom in the left corner is for Diddy’s new show “I Wanna Work For Diddy”
This is bk. I am from Baltimore. I live in New York City. I work in the music business. Richie Savage put together this fly custom Tumblr design.
May 16
May 15
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This week’s music experiment album is Muse - Black Holes and Revelations. I wasn’t too crazy about most of the album’s preview segments, but a few good tracks stood out, and the rest might grow on me.
ME: Marco - I have to agree with the rebloggers who are saying that Absolution deserves your ears. In today’s music biz, you’ll see a lot of bands switching up producers from album to album; however, Muse is one of those bands (like the Chili Peppers/Rick Rubin) who found their guy. For Muse, it’s Rich Costey. Here’s one of my favorite interviews with Rich; and here’s my favorite part:
“The main piano sound on that song [“Sing For Absolution”] was heavily treated. I laid nails, guitar strings and all sorts of metal objects on top of the piano strings themselves so that they rattled, and then I miked all that with a pair of C12s. I had the dry piano coming into the console and I then split the signal so that half of it went to tape and the other half went to a [Digitech] Whammy pedal. In fact, the Whammy pedal also got split, so that half of it went to — no surprise here — an Echoplex and the other half went to a [Lovetone] Doppelganger pedal. That achieved a fake stereo, with a dry attack front and centre, while the Doppelganger with the echo was on one side and the Whammy’s echo was on the other. Then we doubled it, so that it wasn’t even fake stereo any more; it was two performances, which made a lot more sense.”
Uhhhhhhhhh….here’s a video where you can see Costey working. I feel like web supergeek could really appreciate music supergeek. Enjoy!
May 14
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Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight
» Download Friday's Radiohead Show (Charlotte, NC)
Thanks Aziz. The show was really awesome. Pictures to follow.
My favorite part of the show was when the band played “Talk Show Host” and then ”Exit Music (For A Film)” one after the other. This is significant for any Radiohead fanatic because both songs have ties to Baz Luhrmann’s 1996 Film Romeo and Juliet.
“Talk Show Host” was included on the Original Soundtrack. I highly recommend purchasing this soundtrack and then making out during ”Talk Show Host”. Perferably in a car. Preferably during a thunderstorm. Just saying.
“Exit Music (For A Film)” was not included on the Original Soundtrack and instead found its way onto (arguably) Radiohead’s Mangum Opus OK Computer. Radiohead fansite Green Plastic sheds some light on how it all went down:
While on tour with Alanis Morissette in September of 1996, Radiohead was sent the last half-hour of Baz Luhrmann’s film William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and asked to write a song for the closing credits. Band members were impressed by the clip, and Thom wrote this song for the movie. At first he attempted to use lines from Shakespeare’s play as lyrics, but finally ditched the idea.
The moment in the film when Claire Danes (Juliet) holds a Colt 45 to her head was the actual inspiration for “Exit Music.” Thom also had the 1968 version of the film in his head: “I saw the Zeffirelli version when I was 13 and I cried my eyes out, because I couldn’t understand why, the morning after they shagged, they didn’t just run away. The song is written for two people who should run away before all the bad stuff starts. A personal song.”
May 13
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R. Kells makes it ‘Bobble’
May 12
The song “Hallelujah” (by Jeff Buckley or whoever.. take your pick!) might be my favorite song of ALL TIME.
Seriously, whenever I think I might be done with this song, it comes back to me in another form. It brings back TONS of memories and always stirs up some new feelings too.
I love that song. :)
ME: Whoever = Leonard Cohen
May 09
May 08
Lolasaurus
May 01
Tonight, I have to take a bunch of discs with 1-3 tracks on them, copy one selected track from each, and then burn one MASTER disc with all of the tracks that I’ve copied. All of this music is unreleased, so our A&Rs make sure they have the iTunes random songimizer on each disc, and sometimes, the random song is really funny/ironic. Huey Lewis & Gwyneth Paltrow - ‘Cruisin”. Can’t make it up people.
Apr 28
COME ON LFARM
- bk: one time he wrote me an email that said (respectfully as a fan) that he wished Brian Wilson were dead
- Lfarm: who's brian wilson?
Apr 26
One of the last pictures that Andrew took with his camera before it was stolen
Apr 24
OMG
The folks at nintendo are too good to us. I got to give her a spin while I was in Paris, and now we have a copy at the office!!!
Apr 23
Lovepuppy EXPOSED
From: Lovepuppy
Date: Apr 23, 2008 3:20 PM
Subject: R. Kelly
To: bk
Is. Da. Bomb.I’m a Flirt is my favorite song in the whole world. Its my theme song!!
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NOTE: To be fair, I did send her a package of CDs from work, and a few of them may have been Kells. She knows this email brought me joy.
Apr 18
Silly Krauts.
You can’t stop Clive Davis. The only way to destroy him is to plunge a cross woven entirely from strands of Barry Gibb’s 70’s-era chest hair directly into his undead heart.
ME: Once again Balk nails it on the head. I love this guy.
Apr 17
Cover Image for New Usher Record