Hologram If You Hear Me: Putting the Aura Back In Digitally Reproduced Performances

After holographic Tupac crashed Coachella 2012, the buzz about holographic performances by dead musicians has breached the music blogosphere and hit the mainstream. Even Jezebel, which isn’t really a music blog, had a featured article about the topic. Sure, the…

Music Geek-Out #6

The next track on my dinner playlist is one of my favorite songs in this group. It’s the Afghan Whigs “Rebirth of the Cool”. This was a remix of their song “Milez is Ded” (and the title thus a play…

Music Geek-Out #4

[This is a series on my setlist from philoSOPHIA 2012.] From “My City Was Gone” to Siouxie’s “Cities in Dust”.    In a way, these are both about rust belts–Hynde is talking about the US Midwest, and Siouxie is referring to…

Music Geek-Out #3

[This is part of the series where I blog about my setlist from philoSOPHIA 2012.] Second is The Pretenders’ “My City Was Gone,” which I only recently learned is not titled “Back to Ohio”: The Prestenders’ lead singer, Chrissy Hynde,…

Music Geek-Out #2: philoSOPHIA

I had the privilege of “curating” the setlist for dinner and dancing at last weekend’s philoSOPHIA meeting. (I say “curate” rather than “DJ” b/c they couldn’t get the appropriate equipment, and I was not going to pay to fly my…

Record Store Day: Myth & Enlightenment

Today is “Record Store Day,” a day dedicated to the celebration of authenticity: the “realness” and warmness of vinyl records (which were often recorded w/digital equipment–remember DAT?), the “authentic” face-to-face sociality of the record store itself (somehow the IRL experience…

Video of my talk “If you hate Justin Bieber, patriarchy wins”

The wonderful crew at Ignite Charlotte have made videos of all our talks. Here’s mine. It’s only 5 minutes, so you really ought to watch it! I welcome your thoughts in the comments.