[contextly_auto_sidebar id="JX2tjd7JvriqrA2S7OZYKTAWW9ZQa4Rm"] What about the idea that the Internet would become a level playing field, an outlet for democracy and independent voices, rather than a corporate-dominated, winner-take-all wasteland like commercial radio? Well, it's taken one step forward and two steps back, or perhaps vice versa -- the new proposal is very hard to figure … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2014
“Warhol Films” and Eleanor Friedberger
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="4kKdYZoxCdDYt0tlY8PDmS0mVgEBCQX8"] The Brooklyn Academy of Music will soon host an odd hybrid performance recently put on at UCLA's Royce Hall, Exposed: Songs for Unseen Warhol Films. Curated by my friend Dean Wareham, the show, which included legendary guitarist Tom Verlaine and Bradford Cox of Deerhunter and others, was mixed-to-brilliant, depending on who was … [Read more...]
“Dido” and “Bluebeard” at LA Opera
[contextly_auto_sidebar id="AkwrwxM6eGKNL3GVzj0NAKOSml0rfK6D"] YOUR humble blogger came out of a performance of Duke Bluebeard's Castle yesterday reminded of what a bloody genius Bela Bartok was -- and I mean that just about literally. The production at Los Angeles Opera is brutally sharp, filled with sexual menace. The swelling, at times astringent music itself offered a dark kind of beauty to … [Read more...]