Typically, on Fridays before a three-day weekend, we are granted a 1pm closing time, so we can, like, get us a jumpstart on all the fun, or something. I don't know. It usually stresses me out; I wind up rushing around, trying to accomplish everything on my list before the office becomes a ghost town.
This is just the kind of person I am; I get stressed out about the slightest bumps in my daily routine. I can't even believe my armpits right now. They are…
Ariel opened the 2009 Winter Antifolk Festival with a remarkably physical set of sprawling acoustic songs based on The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. I was proud of our man.
I sat there with JA, near the center of the room with a…
No problem at all. Here's a behind the scenes look at what it took to capture the Anat Reference on film.
The speaker arrived on a pallet in three separate red cases, and took about an hour to assemble. Due to the speaker's aluminum…
Nothing!
Just kidding. There's lots of intelligent stuff inside each YG cabinet. The unit that was sent to Eric Swanson for the photo shoot, however, was essentially hollow, to save on shipping costs. Imagine all the money you could stuff into one of these empty cabinets. Probably something close to 107,000 dollar bills, I bet.
I'm only kidding. I also have our 2009 production calendar tacked to my wall, so I know everything well in advance. I don't need no reader's complaints to tell me what's going on around here. But, seriously: Don't we know that our country is in the middle of the worst economic breakdown since the Great Depression. What the hell are we doing putting a $107,000/pair loudspeaker on the cover of our magazine?
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Richard Hayman's Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine was released in 1969 and features many persuasive favorites, including "The Look of Love" and "The Girl from Ipanema," all electronically rendered using the groundbreaking Moog synthesizer.
Inside the gloriously thick gatefold, we find Hayman's essay, "The Moog Synthesizer: An Arranger's Delight." He writes:
No other instrument known today is capable of producing so many diversified sounds that can be so completely wild and yet so completely controlled….
The…
Have you ever wondered just whose house he's standing in?
That wallpaper and those blinds might belong to any grandmother in New Jersey. For years, in fact, I was certain that this photo was actually shot in my grandmother's house in Newark. In fact, the image was captured by photographer Frank Stefanko, in Stefanko's Haddonfield home.
I remember heading into the old Tower Records on East 4th, and picking up a copy of…
Scotty Moore plays guitar; Shorty Long is on the piano; Bill Black's got the bass; DJ Fontana is behind the kit; and the Jordanaires sing backup. Highlights include "Rip It Up," "Love Me," "Long Tall Sally," and "When My Blue Moon…
Though she gained much fame in the 1960s as Tito Puente's vocalist and would become the first Latin singer to pack the house at Madison Square Garden, she would later be seen as something of a…