Citay
by Ben Lambert, Culture Editor on March 24, 2008 in Eight-Track's Revenge
Last night I checked out San Francisco-based rock band Citay, who are a group of incredibly tight musicians seemingly dedicated to exploring the musical possibilities suggested by a single Led Zeppelin song, that song being “Battle of Evermore”. Wonder what “Battle of Evermore” would sound like slower? Or a little bit faster? Howabout with a xylophone? This may or may not strike you as a promising concept, but the show actually rocked. Check out Citay here, and make sure to listen to the standout track “Nice Cuffs”.
Onkyo
by Ben Lambert, Culture Editor on March 23, 2008 in Eight-Track's Revenge
Onkyo is a Japanese genre of music that focuses on the texture of sound rather than the melody or harmony created by any particular combination of notes. Read more
Dean Wareham: Booked & Back in Cambridge
by Bina Venkataraman on March 23, 2008 in Eight-Track's Revenge
When I asked Dean Wareham (the former frontman of indie bands Galaxie 500 and Luna, and the masculine half of Dean & Britta, if one can affix the label ‘masculine’ to someone who croons so sentimentally and effeminately) why he wrote a memoir, he said that most books he’d read about musicians’ lives on the road were “puff pieces” penned by outsiders, seldom true to experience.
Hi
by Ben Lambert, Culture Editor on March 22, 2008 in Eight-Track's Revenge
I thought I’d write a quick note just to describe what kind of posts I hope to put on this blog.
Welcome to the Blogging Week
by Ben Lambert and Naseem Khuri on March 21, 2008 in Eight-Track's Revenge
Well, this is our first blog. We’re new to this whole world, so we don’t really know what we’re doing. For example, Naseem just discovered that if you hold the FN button on your Mac and then hit ‘delete’, it actually deletes forward. Can you believe it?! And Ben still has 8 tracks, a Beta VCR, a cotton gin and knickers.
But we like music, and we assume some of you do too.
