SFJ with a Lee Renaldo memoir of seeing/hearing/experiencing Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio for the first time:  Sonic Youths

I have had a chance to think a bit more about the Major Lazer show. My initial reaction still stands, but I figured I’d try to tease out a little more. I haven’t seen any other reviews of the show yet, so I’ll write this and then go looking. SOB’s was sold out. The crowd was not as painfully hip as I feared it would be. My suspicion is that there are two reasons for this: The “real” hipsters have not yet cottoned on to Major Lazer AND because it is shamelessly populist party/dance music, the “real” hipsters may consider…

At their MySpace page: Major Lazer on MySpace Music (sorry for the Myspace link, but what can one do ;=) NYC headz note live show at SOBs Saturday June 13th 2009

What your favorite Dead song says about you   (Slate Magazine) Hilarious, and too close to the mark for some (including a whole bunch of my contemporaries at “a small liberal arts college in upstate NY”).  I’ll admit that I never “got” the Dead.  And possibly never got over having to explain that a radio show called “Dead at the Controls” would not contain any Dead…

Possibly the gig of the year:  New York Voice Choices – Brainfeeder NYC Presents Kode 9, Flying Lotus, Zomby & Martyn If you are going, please make sure to tell us about it…