The Way We Listen Now
Okay, read this: The">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121023882">The Decade in Music: The Way We Listen Now, from NPR’s “All Things Considered.”
Stephen Mejias
In A Strangeland
This is what I want from music:
Fluid Piano
http://www.youtube.com/v/t7Cq3pbcMkI&hl=en_US&fs=1&"> name="allowFullScreen" value="true">http://www.youtube.com/v/t7Cq3pbcMkI&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="340">
Not Not Fun!
On Friday, I promised myself that I would spend no more money on records until after the New Year. On Saturday, I found myself at Other">http://www.othermusic.com/">Other Music with three LPs in my hands. Gah! I brought them up to the counter, where the cute girl with the black hair was waiting. I felt despicable.
Dreams
I dreamed that I was back in">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/what_happened_in_puerto_rico/… Puerto Rico with the Vivian Girls. They asked me to work on a new song with them. We decided to set up a rehearsal space at my aunt’s beach house. It was taking us awhile to get the instruments properly set up, and Katy was becoming anxious, but I soothed her nerves with a stunning spread of snacks and candies: finger sandwiches, kiwis, grapes, pomegranates, baskets of popcorn, bowls of pretzels and chips, towers of Twizzlers, tall pyramids of Almond Joy…
Talk of the Town
Saturday, December 5, 11am–5pm: Talk">http://www.talkofthetownvideo.com/welcome.html">Talk of the Town will host an “Audio, Video, & Home Theater Demo Day.” Show highlights will include demonstrations of SIM2’s C3X Lumis Host projector; Marantz’s 9004 Reference Blu-ray player; Totem Acoustics’s Wind">http://blog.stereophile.com/ssi2009/totem_wind_design/">Wind Design loudspeakers; Classe’s SSP-800 preamplifier-processor with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA surround decoding; McIntosh’s MA7000 integrated amplifier; and Meridian’s DSP 5200 digital active speakers and Sooloos Music">http://www.stereophile.com/mediaservers/908sooloos/">Music Server System.
An Important Sale
Oh, the aptly named Important">http://importantrecords.com/index.htm">Important Records, one of my favorite sources for outstanding experimental, noise, and otherwise out-there recordings, is having a crazy holiday sale, yo. Check it out: You can buy 44 compact">http://importantrecords.com/releases/44_66_sale.html">compact discs for just $44. Or 66 compact discs for just $66. Finally! And your purchase comes with a sweet tote bag. You’ll need it for hauling around all those compact discs.
Sonic Youth at Terminal 5
This past Saturday night was Sonic Youth at Terminal 5.
Betty Davis Tees
You don’t have to wear a thin mustache and skinny jeans to rock the new Betty Davis t-shirt from American">http://store.americanapparel.net/6401vbty.html">American Apparel. (Really, I promise.) The t-shirt comes from a partnership between the hip fashion outlet and Anthology">http://anthologyrecordings.com/newspost.asp?blogid=140">Anthology Recordings, an all-digital reissue label devoted to rare and out-of-print music from around the world. For $27, you also get a digital compilation, curated by Anthology, featuring tracks from Betty Davis, Karen Dalton, Father Yod, Telegraph Avenue, Shoes, and other obscure, forgotten artists.
Powering the Ionizer
Chris Vogel of the Space Coast Audio Society is excited. He believes he has developed a “dramatic improvement” for treating deleterious, devilish static—not only on compact discs, but in compact disc players and even integrated amplifiers.