Tag Archives: Aqueduct

Shuffle Songs, Vol. 7 — Shuffle, Step, But Change…Not So Much

Since this blog’s inception a few years back London-based composer Shawn Lee has appeared in our pages no fewer than three times. His most recent appearance was of course in Tuesday’s post, where I featured his newest LP Soul in the Hole alongside metal-masked rapper/producer DOOM’s new record Born Like This. But […]

Lips, Sweat and Fake Asian Names

This morning I woke to a local news story about an aspiring Hip-Hop mogul caught up in a plot involving drugs, guns and kidnapping just a few towns away. While at the local news outlet’s site I noticed they have a new Twitter feed, which I clicked, intending to “follow” it. The first […]

Frank Herbert Would Be Proud

A few weeks ago my Shebrew homegirl Lady Glock called me up and asked “So, are you doing the whole fasting thing for Yom Kippur.” My deadpan response was “Well, there’s no food in the house, so it doesn’t look like I’ll be eating… Does that count?” She didn’t see the humor. […]

It Sure Beats Trepanning

This week has been full of ruminations on the bio-mechanical impetus behind man’s desire to create music. I discussed the transformation of our perceptions of natural, spiritual & psychological reality via the electric impulses our brain & body utilize to process and act on those perceptions into sound that in turn has the power […]

Eff a Heat-Index, I Need a Beat-Index

So those hundred-degree heat-indexes which were forecast across the eastern seaboard for this week were no joke after all. I learned as much Monday afternoon when I hit the streets to run a couple of errands and enjoy some outdoor activity accompanied by my own personal media player-spawned soundtrack. Trooping up the block with m. […]