By adam_schragin on Oct 4, 2011 at 12:02pm in Blogs
Dhruva Ailman and Marco Oppedisano are from opposite ends of the country - Aliman calls California home, and Oppedisano lives in New York - but they both make intriguing instrumental music, and hey, they're both MadeLoud artists. Small world, right?
Aliman is a composer who delves into electronica and dance as frequently as ambient music. His music has appeared in diverse places, from "Keeping... Read more
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The Internet was pronounced dead on July 6, 2010. You'd think that would be the crime of the century, but I'm only getting warmed up. You see, since then the Internet's corpse has been shamelessly violated by around a billion people every day (around 250 million of them for pornographic purposes) for almost three weeks, and there's no end in...site.
No, that pun was not intended. Nope. Not at... Read more
You don't have to read those creepy "Love is..." comic strips to feel good for the rest of the day - unless you're in Hell or something. Sometimes - ok, a lot of the times - it feels great to have a chuckle at somebody else's ridiculousness. It's in good fun. On a related note, I get the impression that we as a society sort of forget that our musicians are really only good at one thing, and... Read more
By NoahBerlatsky on Jul 11, 2010 at 5:05pm in Blogs
Anti-semitism is very much frowned upon these days, so I don’t often get to see the mass media reduce me to an invidious exploitative stereotype for the amusement and titillation of my peers.
In that sense, the 2009 episode of the TV show Bones titled, “Mayhem on the Cross” was a stimulating novelty. Not that it was anti-semitic — of course not. It was anti-metalhead.
Admittedly, I’m not a... Read more
Thank God it's trendy to be pissed off every time a celebrity catches a break on their fifty-fourth consecutive probation violation involving, say, toddler murder in conjunction with running an unlicensed moonshine still within 500 feet of a school. If I, Joe Citizen, get caught with so much as a dirty glass pipe I'll be everything but blindfolded and shot in the back of the head, but Lindsay... Read more
...you can commit tax evasion.
Tax evasion is a crime. Having said that, I'll pause to let you collect the socks I've just blown off with such shocking news. But even if tax evasion wasn't illegal, aren't we at the point where it damn well better be? It isn't so much that I'm a proponent of taxation (I'm not) or government spending (I'm generally not), but the fact of the matter is that even... Read more
...or, what it must be like playing soccer inside a swarm of angry hornets.
Yes, it's true, the infamous vuvuzela has earned the completely justified reputation of being pure evil. Whether you've considered it or not, the vuvuzela is, perhaps unfortunately, a musical instrument. True, it can be considered a musical instrument in the same way a screaming pack of hyenas accidentally wandering... Read more
Today, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about cause and effect. You could chalk it up to Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion if you're so inclined, or even leave it to just plain karma, but some days it seems like you can hardly lay down a pile of dog crap on the Moon without a celebrity somehow walking straight into it, barefoot and on TV, and then picking up a DUI on the way back home... Read more
Remember Michael Jackson's doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray? He's the delightful so-and-so that's been charged with killing the King of Pop almost one year ago on June 25, 2009. It was then that Dr. Murray administered what would be a fatal dose of the anesthetic Propofol and other sleep medications to an ailing Michael Jackson, who subsequently died of cardiac arrest. There has been significant... Read more
Death is a natural part of life; sooner or later, it just happens. There's a lot of money in trying to avoid it or at least mask its inevitable march, but all things must come to an end... including music careers. The warning signs of musical death are pretty clear: the golden tones of yesteryear eventually decay, the trendiness of rabid fandom goes by the wayside, sales plummet and there start... Read more
We've all been there; Joe or Suzie doesn't show up to work, and we cover for them. "Yeah, it's, like, super bad food poisoning, or H1N1, or something" we say, faces scrunched in faux concern for our pal who is actually at home playing Xbox or dragging themselves through a hangover, or both. In many ways, this is exactly what friends are for - bail me out, be my wingman, stick up for me, and I'... Read more
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