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Northwest Kicks Ass @ Plug Independent Music Awards
Feb 14th
The Northwest kicked ass at Saturday nights Plug Independent Music Awards. (Simple list of winners here.)
KEXP won both Online Radio Station of the Year and College/Non-Comm Radio Station of the Year. Amazon.com won Online Record store of the year.
Sub Pop pulled down Record Label of the year with the help of Band of Horses who won three awards including song of the year for “The Funeral.” Everything All the Time won Album of the Year and American Album of the Year.
The Melvins won Metal Album of the Year.
From Rolling Stone:
The evening was appropriately chaotic (this is, after all, indie rock): The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players, minus two-thirds of the family, took twenty minutes to announce the winner of the Best Art Packaging award; an “iPod battle” consisting of two teams of Mexican wrestlers trying to out-DJ one another failed so miserably that when Round Two of the competition was cancelled, it elicited the loudest applause of the entire night; and just after Band of Horses won the award for Album of the Year, an overzealous fan detonated a stink bomb, suffusing the venue with the sweet smell of rotten eggs. This wasn’t your mama’s award show.
Full list of winners:
Album of the Year: Band of Horses – Everything All The Time
New Artist of the Year: Arctic Monkeys
Female Artist of the Year: Neko Case
Male Artist of the Year: Sufjan Stevens
Indie Rock Album of the Year: Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Metal Album Of The Year: The Melvins – (A) Senile Animal
Hip Hop Album Of The Year: Spank Rock – Yoyoyoyoyo
Americana Album: Band of Horses – Everything All The Time
Punk Album of the Year: CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy
Electronica/Dance Album of the Year: Thom Yorke – The Eraser
DJ Album: Girl Talk – Night Ripper
Avant Album of the Year: Xiu Xiu – The Air Force
Artist of the Year: J Dilla
Live Act of the Year: Broken Social Scene
Song of the Year: Band of Horses – The Funeral
Record Producer of the Year: J Dilla
Music Video of the Year: Wolf Parade – I’ll Believe in Anything
Album Art: Hot Chip – The Warning
Record Label of the Year: Sub Pop
Live Music Venue of the Year: Bowery Ballroom
Music Festival of the Year: South by Southwest
Music Website of the Year: Pitchfork Media
Music Blog of the Year: Brooklyn Vegan
College/Non-Comm Radio Station of the Year: KEXP, Seattle, WA
Record Store of the Year: Amoeba Music
Best Music DVD of the Year: The Pixies – loudQUIETloud
Best Magazine of the Year: Paste Magazine
Zine of the Year: Wax Poetics
Speciality Show of the Year: Sirius Left of Center – Blog Radio
Podcast of the Year: WOXY.com Lounge Acts
Internet Radio Station of the Year: Woxy.com
Online Radio Station of the Year: KEXP
Online Record Store of the Year: Amazon.Com
via Sound On The Sound, Paper, and Rolling Stone
Lou Reed @ National Arts Club
Feb 12th
This morning on the Art Forum Diary is posted possibly the worst picture of Lou Reed EVER. Sorry Lou:
Post your complaints here: http://www.artforum.com/diary/
National Arts Club off Gramercy Park for a “Secret Show” by Antony, of Antony and the Johnsons.
A Sounds Eclectic Evening: Partay-hartay w/Nick Harcourt
Feb 9th
Though we are still bitter about Nic taking the morning slot from Chris Douridas, still, he’s done a pretty good job. And he’s a nice guy, so how bitter can we be?
Live Onstage:
THE SHINS
LILY ALLEN
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA
COLD WAR KIDS
BITTER:SWEET
Exclusive After Party with:
THE PINKER TONES
MOCEAN WORKER
More Artists TBA plus Surprise Special Guests, check this page for announcements and updates!
Tickets go on sale to KCRW members only on Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 11am
Tickets go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, February 27
Pre-register at Ticketmaster.com and click on “My Account.”
Luna Park’s Helter Skelter, Coney Island, NY 1905
Feb 6th
Go helter skelter
helter skelter
helter skelter
Yeah, hu, hu
I will you won’t you want me to make you
I’m coming down fast but don’t let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me the answer
You may be a lover but you ain’t no dancer
Look out
Helter skelter
helter skelter
helter skelter
Yeah, hu, hu
Look out cause here she comes
Luna Park’s Helter Skelter
(Coney Island, New York)
(1905)
London Sewers and John Cage’s Dying Wish
Feb 5th
Yet more evidence that BLDGBLOG is the best blog on the internet today is this piece on the sewers of London and John Cage’s dying wish:
"Unreliable sources suggest that the earliest Victorian sewer engineers were also trained to make musical instruments: thus many storm drains beneath London are designed like saxophones, tubas, and flutes. Distant changes in air pressure cause the whole system to shudder, whistling subliminally on the edges of the wind, a soundtrack for the city so beautiful it’s often hypnotic. If you wait long enough in certain alleys in Soho, you’ll hear it, droning beneath the rustle of crisp bags and trash.
It is rumored that the final, dying words of composer John Cage were: “Make sure they play my London piece… You have to hear my London piece…” He was referring, many now believe, to a piece written for the subterranean saxophony of London’s sewers."
[Image: Tower of ladders and platforms, photographed by Siologen].
via BLDGBLOG
Prince Portraits c. 1978; Robert Whitman @ The Black & White Gallery, Chelsea
Jan 31st
The Black & White Gallery in Chelsea is hosting an exhibition of Robert Whitman’s photos of Prince, c.1978, taken just as he was on the cusp of fame. The photos are pretty great, although I’m pretty sure a two-year-old mandrill could point a camera at Prince and take an amazing picture.
via Your Daily Awesome [which you should definitely check out daily!]
Live! Nude! Deerhoof
Jan 30th
Strange how things get tangled-up in this weird.www.2.0; We just added some new Deerhoof to the Hank’s Hi-Fi playlist, then just posted about some author’s affinity for nudiness, and here we have a collision of the two via Rolling Stone; quelle bizarre!
If you’re a good little Rolling Stone reader, you’ll know all about Deerhoof by now. After all, we featured them as a “Breaking” band in the issue of the magazine on stands now. But just in case you need further reassurance of their awesomeness, take a look at this exclusive clip, which features the lovable indie-rockers performing “+80? live during their set at NYC’s Irving Plaza last Friday.
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play.movOn The Fence w/ Jon Rose
Jan 30th
For over 20 years, violinist Jon Rose has been travelling the world, creating music on some of the world’s most (and least) important fences with nothing more than his violin bow.
* A video of Rose coaxing some unearthly and occasionally melodic sounds out of the great fences of Australia.
* Previously in the Proceedings: Massive aeolian harps, the Stalacpipe Organ, and the Zadar Sea Organ.
via Athanasius Kircher Society
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