Category

Musician

• Jun 26 2008
  Girl Talk - Feed the Animals by David Goligorsky
  Computers, Engineering, Music, Musician, Remix, pop

  Pittsburgh's premiere Biomedical-Engineer-turned-international-DJ-phenomenon, Gregg Gillis (aka Girl Talk), just made his latest album available. It's called Feed the Animals He's followed the example that Radiohead established by making the album available online at whatever price you think is worth it. Name your price and download it here! (via Kempt) In a 2006 interview by Ryan Dombal for Pitchfork Media Review, Gregg Gillis talks about how he had his Engineering day job where nobody knew about his rising fame as a DJ: It would just be weird that I've been hiding this huge part of my life from them. They always come in ...
  
  
• May 25 2008
  New Weezer Video Starring Inadvertent YouTube Celebrities by David Goligorsky
  Associative Thought, Music, Musician, Remix, pop, video

  My feelings for the band Weezer have been hot and cold throughout the years. When the "Blue Album" came out in 1994, I was headbanging to Say it Ain't So with the rest of 'em. I thought it was borderline hubris when they held off on a new album between 1996's Pinkerton and the "Green Album" in 2001. Somewhere during that hiatus, I happened upon an interview in a reputable music magazine (don't remember which one) where the interviewer poked at the astounding similarities between their Blue Album cover and the Feelies' cover for Crazy Rhythms (a ...
  
  
• May 23 2008
  Archipelago: “Cicadian Rhythm” by David Goligorsky
  Inspiration, Music, Musician, Society of the Gentleman

  My best friend Peter Naddeo has been writing phenomenal music for something like a decade and has compiled a long-awaited selection of songs for a comprehensive album. He mailed me a copy two days ago and it has been playing on repeat from my house to my car to my desk at work and back again. It's called Cicadian Rhythm under the name Archipelago. Peter has done everything on the album from writing, to playing, to recording, to individual handmade album art, and everything in between. Furthermore, he is a top-rate Gentleman. He let me put the ...
  
  
• May 21 2008
  Tom Waits auto-interview by Christian Eager
  Art, Music, Musician, interview

  Tom Waits asks himself the tough questions: Q: What's the most curious record in your collection? A: In the seventies a record company in LA issued a record called "The best of Marcel Marceau." It had forty minutes of silence followed by applause and it sold really well. I like to put it on for company. It really bothers me, though, when people talk through it. Q: Tom, you love words and their origins. For $2,000...what is the origin of the word bedlam? A: It's a contraction of the word Bethlehem. It comes from ...
  
  

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