Pop goes the EMP Conference
April 30, 2007 I got back a few days ago from Seattle, where I attended the sixth Pop music conference, which is held at the Experience Music Project in a Frank Gehry building that resembles a crushed...
View ArticleFantastique Symphony
December 6, 2007 I’ve been waiting to hear the Symphonie fantastique live for years, and last night, which happened to be the 177th anniversary of the piece’s first Paris performance, all the waiting...
View ArticleSir Richard Bishop
December 15, 2007 Superlatives can be lame, but Richard Bishop is one of the few post-punk guitarists who came of age in the 1980s to have achieved the incendiary prowess of a true Guitar God. Though...
View ArticleArena of the Gods
December 26, 2007 On December 10, the great lizard lords Led Zeppelin took to the stage one more time, and they rocked the planet. I had signed up for the raffle like everyone else, and not gotten...
View ArticleSemper Dowland
January 14, 2008 When I listen to John Dowland, I don’t just hear a great English lutenist and composer of the late Renaissance/early modern period. I also hear the first singer-songwriter, the...
View ArticleWhere it Starts Getting Sweepy
March 24, 2008 This interview appears in the jam-packed, terrific new issue of Yeti magazine. <> I first time I heard PG Six’s solo album, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites, I had that spooky,...
View ArticleAethenor Live
April 19, 2008 So the Pilkdown Man, Fer and I trundled out past the Parisian périphérique under glowering and then groaning skies to some tiny hep club tucked behind North African meat joints. The...
View ArticleHalflife iPod
July 10, 2008 Recent developments with my iPod have once again hammered home to me how transformations in the technology of recorded music continue to shape and alter our sense of music, of listening,...
View ArticleAH!
This piece originally ran on Hilobrow as part of the Grok My Enthusiasm! series. Please check out Hilobrow, my favorite culture klatch online! Bhagavan Das is now the OG dirty grampa of the yoga...
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Out Come the Freaks
The following piece ran in the December 2016 issue of The Wire, as part of a “Spirits Rejoice!” collection of articles on sacred music. I don’t believe there is a common thread running through the...
View ArticleTalking RAW
I talked to Alistair Fruish about Robert Anton Wilson, meme magic, and brain change techniques for the second edition of the Cosmic Trigger Podcast. The fnords have not left the field! The post Talking...
View ArticleDaydream Nation
Spin magazine recently posted a freshly digitized version of my first magazine feature to earn a cover line: a 1989 feature profile of Sonic Youth upon the release of their double wonder Daydream...
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