Archive for March, 2008

Alarm Will Sound For You

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Matt Marks from Alarm Will Sound wants to announce:
CALL FOR SCORES
Alarm Will Sound invites submissions for a 5-15 minute piece to be performed as part of a March 2009 Alice Tully concert of music by New York City composers. Works should be submitted in PDF and/or MP3 format to submission@alarmwillsound.com. Preference will be […]

That’s mr. Gnome to you

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

mr. Gnome (I believe the M in Mr. is lower cased) is sort of the mirror opposite of The White Stripes. They are a duo but the girl is the vocalist/guitarist and the guy is the drummer. Their sound however is worlds apart from the Stripes and exists in a far trippier sonic realm. This […]

In Defense of There Will Be Blood

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

What defense does an Oscar-winning film with major critical adoration truly need? Well, box office perhaps, but who cares?
There is however a persistent group of people, rather influential people, who claim that There Will Be Blood is, for lack of a better word, crapbag. The leading voice of such “dissent” comes from this review:
Read Salon’s […]

A Smattering of That Jazz

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Aside from a recent trip to see the amazing local free jazz marching band Killsonic, I haven’t really kept up with jazz. The truth is that jazz is soon becoming what Nina Simone called “black classical music.” In other words, it’s just as a complex, avant-garde, and innovative as anything else out there coming from […]