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Music and Tech
Features
Better Late Than Never: Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde
Here's my confession: in all my life, and after several years of
writing about music, I have totally slept on Bob Dylan. I don't mean
that I didn't spend enough time on Dylan. I'm saying that until a
couple months ago, I had zero interest in the guy. And I have no excuse.
(The Onion AV Club)
Better Than We Know Ourselves
Music discovery tools such as Last.fm, Pandora, and the yet-to-be-launched
Echo Nest are getting smarter and brasher every month, growing from
studying people's shopping carts to digging into the music itself and
analyzing what makes it tick. But how far can these tools go? (Pitchforkmedia.com)
Nobody Gets Booed Down Here
So what's the music scene like in Antarctica? (Pitchforkmedia.com)
Whatever Happened to Captain Snaps?
Joe Stevens—aka "Captain Snaps"—shot everyone who was anyone from
the 1960s to the 80s: Johnny Cash. David Bowie. Grandmaster Flash. He
caught both the Sex Pistols' first and last gig, and he shot Woodstock. So
what's he doing in New Hampshire? (Pitchforkmedia.com)
Who Needs the DJ?
Community radio legends such as "The Polka Party" host Gary
Sredzienski have all but disappeared from the air, and the personal touch
of pirate radio and podcasting—and impersonal touch of mostly DJ-less
digital music choices—have yet to replace them. (Pitchforkmedia.com)
Interviews
Sir Paul McCartney
(Pitchforkmedia.com)
Daryl Hall
(Pitchforkmedia.com)
Doseone (Pitchforkmedia.com)
TV on the Radio's David Sitek (Pitchforkmedia.com)
David Byrne (Pitchforkmedia.com)
David Sylvian (Pitchforkmedia.com)
Ray LaMontagne (Paste Magazine)
Reviews for Pitchforkmedia.com
Andy Partridge, Fuzzy Warbles Collector's Album
Deerhoof, Friend Opportunity
TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain
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Games and Geek Pop
Features and Interviews
Why I Slept With The Alien: That Sex Scene in Mass Effect
Look. That wasn’t my
goal. It just happened. I didn’t get this game, choose that character and
follow all those options just so I could say that I became a lesbian dad in
space. (GameSetWatch)
The Lameness of
World of Warcraft
You could argue that the
gameplay is supposed to be repetitive and simple … . (Slate)
Let’s
Burn Down Africa
It’s periodically chic in Hollywood to
worry about the fate of Africa. But
the games biz would rather blow the place up. (GameSetWatch)
John Cage's XBox
If today's laptop composers, soundscape artists, and sound installation
designers tried working in the interactive, three-dimensional world of a
video game, would they ever turn back? (Pitchforkmedia.com)
Genetic Casting: Is Hollywood cloning its animal stars?
(Boston Phoenix)
Hold Me,
Thrill Me, Kiss Me: How to Flirt in RPGs (The Escapist)
Interview with Battlestar
Galactica’s Ronald D. Moore and James Callis (The Onion AV Club)
Reviews for The Onion AV Club
Portal
ForumWarz
Lost Pig
BioShock
Jets
‘N’ Guns Gold
DEFCON
Vampire Rain
Prison
Tycoon 2
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See Me, Hear Me
Listen to me on WNYC's Soundcheck, talking about politics
and Halo
3.
Watch my panel at the 2006 Future of Music Coalition Summit, "Avatars With Guitars: Music for Games"
My Week
on the Avril Lavigne eTeam was reprinted in The Rock History Reader, ed. Theo Cateforis
The Chumbawamba Factor was selected as a
"Notable Essay" in Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006
PERMANENT FEATURES
The Save the Robot
Ezine—the complete writings for Save the Robot by Chris Dahlen,
Matthew Weiner and Jon Langmead.
The
Funkulator drops da bomb on simple calculations.
Business
Guy
Save the Robot's comic feature.
The
Seventh Heaven Journal
Blair McMillen and Chris Dahlen take on the only family TV show in prime
time, and find that beneath the religious messages and wholesome
lifestyles, there's sex, hate, and lots of good time teenage hotties.
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