Electronic Music NewsCatching Up With… Bob Mould
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- Catching Up With… Bob Mould
- Electronic music festival draws eclectic global crowd
- Coachella preview: Busy P
- EFF’s von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use
- Interview: Quintron
- Books of The Times When Admiration Turns Into bsession
Catching Up With… Bob Mould
Paste Magazine
And then when Sugar ended I went back to strictly solo endeavors. Then the changes in the writing I think were precipitated by age not necessarily maturity—I’m not sure about that—but just getting older and having a different view and being open to different kinds of music. When I started to appreciate electronic music and dance music and house music for a period of years that really changed my view of music and how I made music. As this decade has gone on I’ve moved back towards the guitar as a compositional tool and I’ve got this second career as a DJ which I think is now where a lot of that enthusiasm for electronic music goes. So it’s not showing up in my work as much now but I have this other gig that’s as full-time as my regular writing and performing gig.
Electronic music festival draws eclectic global crowd
Beacon Newspaper (subscription)
They came to worship those gods of trance; legendary DJs including Tiesto Paul van Dyk and Moby as well as the Prodigy the Black Eyed Peas Armin van Buuren and Erick Morillo among other big names in town for the WMC. In the same year when Langerado an annual music festival also scheduled to be held in Bicentennial Park was canceled due to poor ticket sales the WMC and Ultra both thrived attracting more visitors than ever before. Cesar Bourdon an exchange student from France working on his MBA knows a thing or two about electronic music festivals as they are more common on the other side of the Atlantic. Still he said he had never really seen anything quite like it. ?To describe it in one word: awesome? Bourdon said. ?I?ve lived in Europe so I have something to compare with. I?ve never been to anything like Ultra.
Coachella preview: Busy P
Los Angeles Times
from April 17 to 19. There are more than 120 acts on the bill but in the next couple of weeks we'll be selecting some of the best bets — some on the radar some flying below.
EFF’s von Lohmann: YouTube worse than DMCA for fair use
ZDNet
You’ll recall that Jason and his wife put up on Vimeo a reunion slideshow with several tracks of music and that Warner Music Group promptly filed a DMCA take-down notice. Fred’s initial reaction:Wow. Warner Music really doesn’t know when to quit. The really sad thing Fred told me in a telephone interview is that Warner probably doesn’t even object to this use of its content.
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Interview: Quintron
Decider Madison
What genre are you building?Q: [Laughs. ] I was probably joking. But usually when I talk about a specific genre [for my music] I’m talking about swamp-tech and all of these people in New rleans are making this electronic music that’s really slow and sloppy and it has super fucked-up lo-fi electronic roots to it. At the same time though some inspirations are coming much more from what you would call normal music or R&B and rock ‘n’ roll so its not coming from just electronic music. D: Does creating new instruments help create a new genre? r is that not something you’re trying to do?Q: I don’t think a genre can be based on an instrument but I think a genre can be built around a single instrument. You can say the electric guitar certainly helped create the genre of garage rock but there’s something else that has to contribute to start a truly new genre of music. Sometimes it’s about one person or one pioneer but it’s also about a certain culture and a certain period in time.
Books of The Times When Admiration Turns Into bsession
New York Times
After his mother died when he was 6 he seems to have absorbed his cynical father’s dictum that “love is not sufficient” that “there’s always something after happily ever after. ” What awakens Julian from his emotional slumber are some songs by a young Irish singer named Cait ’Dwyer a tough talented and about to become-wildly famous musician. An ardent music junkie who is almost permanently plugged into his iPod Julian becomes mesmerized by her songs and soon by Cait herself. He leaves some directorial advice scribbled on some coasters for her at the local club she plays but declines to meet her in person. Soon he is following her on the Web (through her own Web site and others) and has tracked down her address in Brooklyn lurking and ogling without ringing the bell. Phillips makes the daunting job of conjuring up a fictional singer and her music seem easy — in sharp contrast to the cartoonish portraits of two rock musicians drawn by.