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    Chili Pepper blasts 'sell-outs' U2 and Black Eyed Peas

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    The wig comment was just a playful snap on the flogging of classical music in NP, which, BTW, my sons are getting tons of via the Baby Einstein DVDs they enjoy...therfore, they must really know their shit. Also, while we're at it, i'd respectfully suggest the quantity of music one listens to...new, old, otherwise...doesn't make someone's opinions any more relevant than mine.

     

    You can do much better for your children than Baby Einstein. And the Red Hot Chili Peppers. :beer

    Chili Pepper blasts 'sell-outs' U2 and Black Eyed Peas

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    If it were not for their early 90s output (which even then I found to be occasionally fun, but never mindblowing), their music of the last 5-7 years has been completely average, uninteresting, and undistinguishable from all the other crap on the radio. In a word: RHCP is easy, comfortable, inoffensive music for people with neither the means nor the inclination to find music that isn't forcefed to them by the majors and the radio stations in their pay.

    Now Playing. 14th August 2006.

    in Someone Else's Song

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    "That Bach record is ok but not up there with the new m. ward record imo. Probably will make it into my top 250 tho."

     

    ;)

     

    exactly :cheers

     

    It's a shame, b/c considering the bands Kyle loves -- Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Loscil, Clogs, et al -- he's basically already listening to (contemporary) classical music. You can't tell some people anything tho.... :cheekkiss

    Now Playing. 14th August 2006.

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    mr. classical music snob is not allowed to use the word snoozer ;)

     

    Is this all 700 years of classical music you were calling snoozy, or something specific you were wanting to sound ignorant about? :cheekkiss

     

    np

     

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    Mice Parade: Mokoondi

     

    Rich, you would love this if you haven't heard it. :music

    Now Playing. 14th August 2006.

    in Someone Else's Song

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    :D

     

    This is what makes music fun though; everyone's different opinions.

     

    I'll certainly accept people's opinion on the midlake record, I've just ended up taking the piss out of myself for saying it's rubbish all the time :)

     

    Not huge on Midlake myself - kind of a snoozer. Which of course makes sense if Kyle loves it. :cheers

     

    np

     

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    Radian: Juxtaposition

    Now Playing - 7 August 2006

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted · Edited by Deaf Ro

    I acquired that Squarepusher album you were playing the other day: great stuff, thanks!

     

    Also really enjoying the modern classic starter kit too :cheers

     

    :cheers

     

    edit: check out The Books if you haven't before. Either "The Lemon of Pink" or their most recent record "Lost & Safe" are great. They will likely be the next performers in my series.

    Jeff Parker/Nels Cline Quartet

    in After The Show

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    it's worth mentioning that Pitchfork was only the 2nd time this quartet has played together.

     

    GTurner, I have a ton of Nels' stuff (solo and otherwise) I could throw a mix together if you'd like.

     

    What are some of your favorite (4-5) records of his? Dude has so much music I have no idea where to begin.

    Glenn Kotche & Nels Cline at Lincoln Center, NYC

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    So, some of you might know that I've been trying for the past few months to put together a concert series here at Lincoln Center, where I work. The idea, in a word, is to present classical music people alongside what I'm calling "contemporary instrumental" artists -- i.e., indie rock, electronic, laptop, etc., performers, to show that it's really one big continuum of music and that everyone has something to learn from each other.

     

    Just last week, I officially confirmed the first date--on Monday, September 18. The performers will be Glenn Kotche and Nels Cline, playing alongside a young pianist named Jenny Lin. Glenn and Nels will be playing percussion music by a contemporary composer by the name of Steve Reich, as well as some of their own original (non-Wilco) works. Jenny will be playing solo piano music by three composers: Gyorgy Ligeti, Dmitri Shostakovich, and a living composer named Elliott Sharp, who will also be performing. Elliott's piece is especially cool in that it's scored for piano and "computer processing" -- i.e., they mic the piano and feed the sound into a laptop, where the composer himself manipulates the stream as the pianist performs. The amazing part is that Nels and Elliott just recorded a duo record together and so will probably be performing a bunch of stuff at this concert as well.

     

    The name of the project will be the Wordless Music Series. You can read a little more about it here: http://wordlessmusic.org. Tickets will be on sale via that site this Friday at 10am. It was very important to me to make these concerts affordable for people who can't buy a $50 ticket at Carnegie or Lincoln Center. For this reason, all seats will be sold for no more than $20.

     

    I have about 4-5 concerts lined up for the rest of the year. Some of the artists who have expressed interest in performing are a little startling (to me more than anyone). I will probably be announcing the next installment, in November, very soon.

     

    I hope you can make it on the 18th. If you know someone who would like to attend, write about this, volunteer, or help out in another way, send them my way.

     

    Okay, someone cut this guy off...

     

    Ronen

     

    :cheers

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