Just a Gwai Lo fun within prescribed limits [?]

In the span of about a month, I'll be attending a play and three concerts: DJ Shadow, Junior Boys, and TV on the Radio. Will I see you there?

It's too bad that the Junior Boys are playing at the Plaza Club, which has awful acoustics, at least when I saw Lyrics Born play there. They redeem themselves by printing, on the ticket, not only when the show starts (8:00 PM) but when it ends (10:30 PM). And this is on a Saturday.

Speaking of Lyrics Born, he'll be performing at Richard's on Richards on October 24th, which is when I'm flying in from Toronto. Or not, depending on a decision I have yet to make. If I don't attend, please, someone, go in my place: it's a great venue and if you're at all a fan of hiphop, he's one of the better live performers I've seen.

The three concerts I mentioned above? That doesn't include Iceland Airwaves.

Purchased Junior Boys' Last Exit CD.

Canadian emo techno at its finest. I downloaded "Under the Sun" from somewhere, heard "Birthday" on the radio, read the Pitchfork review, and finally surrendered. At the record store, the double-CD version cost $17 and the single-CD version cost $24. That's right, two CDs for seventeen dollars, one CD for twenty-four dollars. I think you'll agree the double-CD version was the better deal.

al3x makes a good musical find in Junior Boys. In the same spirit, I'd like to share two finds of mine: DI.fm's Deep House channel, especially the juicy MP3 feed. Deep house is not how I'd characterize what gets played on that channel: it's more funky than deep. Also of note is sample-based instrumental hip-hopper (and fellow Influx mailing list member) Human Being. "Humanity" wins second-prize in the Creepiest Sample of George W. Bush In A Hip-Hop song. Since "Humanity" only quotes the word "humanity", the top honour goes to Forgotten Lores' "Sannleikurinn endursagður", which quotes Bush's USS Lincoln speech at length: “Today, we have the greater power to free a nation by breaking a dangerous and aggressive regime. With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians. No device of man can remove the tragedy from war. Yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.”