March 2012
1 post
NPR: The Austin 100
Neat. NPR put “Erica Western Teleport” on their SXSW preview mix.
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/01/147637518/the-austin-100-a-sxsw-mix?ps=cprs
February 2012
13 posts
Euro Press! Très Académique, Bomberjacket! →
Some really nice people in Europe started a new and very well-written music website called Bomberjacket. They just posted an intense, academic-sounding analysis of Western Teleport. If you want to know what a headscarp is (pictured above), click the link.
Why I Try to Ignore Things Like Chris Brown
I was already sort of grumpy this morning. Then I logged into my Friendsterbook account and saw that the Grammy awards show happened last night. Among the usual inane gossip stuff and press release-flavored news articles about the award winners, I saw this article which re-posted tweets from a few women reacting to R&B celebrity/convicted felon girlfriend-beater Chris Brown’s...
Ryoji Ikeda -- The Transfinite →
I found out about this six months too late to catch it in New York. Reading this mixed New York Times reivew of the work clarified my opinion that this is art as activation par excellence. Now I just need to find where it’s showing next so I can take my shoes off and secrete my own LSD for about three hours. RIYL Young/Zazeela’s Dream House (to which this video clip does no justice).
And now, a word from our sponsor.
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January 2012
13 posts
COURAGE. →
LISTED →
Dusted asked me what the ten most influential records in my life were, and this is what I told them.
The PHX show just got upped in this article, come... →
The Amish Horde
It’s a little hard to see in the pictures, but a whole horde of Amish people just got on in Rochester. I didn’t know they had a specific smell. It’s not a bad smell; it just smells like people: sharp and tangy and alive, kind of like venison. One loud lady keeps saying thick, serious-sounding things in Pennsylvania Dutch, things that rhyme with “-oord” and...
Nervous Energies in Industrial Birmingham
(Click to open video)
My new friend Ryan Russell and I recorded an E.X set in front of a blazing steel furnace in an industrial zone in Birmingham last month. I’d just arrived by bus from Nashville for a show in town that night and found myself walking around the business district in the early morning, happy but a little stunned from insomnia. I scammed wifi from a skyscraper lobby for a...
Nodes Activated in Suburbs of Detroit, Oklahoma...
More than a month had passed since we’d received word of any node activation from the ongoing Western Teleport Nodes project. But apparently people are still finding these things. Check out what came in over the past week. They’re both segments of longer series, neither one is unlistenably harsh (okay, maybe 33’s a little tough), and one of them has actual singing in it!
NODE...
2012 Continuance of Music Start Against Youth...
Amigos del Norte, here’s the story. I’m recording in studios, warehouses, and on the street in Mexico over the next few weeks in a final push to finish my next record. I’ll be stopping along the way between the recording spots, making a quick arc of solo shows starting last night in DC, continuing tomorrow night in Baltimore, going up through NYC and and the state of New York,...
http://m.facebook.com/?_rdr&refid=0%23!/event.php?e... →
IT’S SO COLD IN DC!!! HELP US HOTBOX THIS RAD RECORD STORE. Don’t let good vinyl freeze. http://m.facebook.com/?_rdr&refid=0%23!/event.php?eid=267930386592337&r ef=bookmark&__user=656159857
December 2011
15 posts
Li'l Scholars
Thanks to all of y’all who came out to the show in Jacksonville on Christmas night, we raised $300 for this school in Peru. High five! Give ‘em a little extra bump if you’re feeling particularly jolly this holiday season, too. HAPPY NEW YEAR! http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/free-education-in-peru/
Deleon Springs (Deland-ish), New Year's Eve Eve... →
En route to Tampa, see you there! →
St. Augustine, see you tonight! →
Salon.com
Emperor X — _Western Teleport_ — one of “the most underrated albums of 2011.” They also suggest it’s a good Christmas present, which is maybe one of the nicest things you can say about a record. Thanks, Salon.com! Salon.com’s Most Underrated Albums of 2011
Holiday Express Microflorida Tour feat. Appl Comm
First of all, to put you in the right mood for a wintertime tour date blog post, nothing beats this vaguely Christmas-y Sizzla track, “Kings of the Earth”.
Most and maybe all of these dates will be with Applied Communications.
SUN.12.25 | Jacksonville, FL Burro Bar + an undisclosed secret location |Details TUE.12.27 | St. Augustine, FL 54 Smith House | Details WED.12.28 | Orlando,...
JINGLE ROUGHAGE 2011
Okay, that was it — December 22nd, the solstice, the longest night of the year. It’s over. We made it. Time to relax with the family and eat a bunch of grandma’s cookies and fall asleep in front of a football game on your Republican uncle’s 40” flatscreen plasma TV, right? WRONG!
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA — CHRISTMAS CITY, U.S.A., THIS WEEKEND ONLY:
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Why My Hair Rules Today
My hair rules today. All I’ve used on it for the past 72 hours: bus station Gojo. Conclusion: SHAMPOO IS A EUROPEAN CONSPIRACY. http://gojo.com/
November 2011
7 posts
Post-Confederate Tent City
I arrived at the converted Chrysler dealership that suffices for Nashville’s Greyhound terminal on Saturday morning. I tried to do the rest-in-the-cold-bus-station-under-a-TV-blaring-ESPN routine, but around 0700 I had to admit to myself that sleep wasn’t happening. I grabbed my two packs and set out down Charlotte Ave. towards the middle of downtown, looking for a McDonald’s or...
Louisville Druggers: "Why Do My Pants Keep Falling...
It was time to get to the venue, so I picked up the eastbound #18 TARC bus downtown towards Preston Highway. Immediately after boarding, and I mean within a second or two, this kid was in my face.
“AWW MAN IS THAT A GUITAR?!? HOLY SH!T MAN I FUCKIN’…YEAH, MAN LEMME SEE THAT THING PAW PAW YAWW MAWW MUNAWWW…”
One part old man zombie, one part Ritalin-ruined redneck...
Cincinnati: Thermal Tent Tebow Brainwash Bus...
At 0215 hours on day one of Kyocera Buscoder Tour 2011, Mike and Matt dropped me off at the station. All I had to do was get from Cincinnati to Louisville for a potentially psychologically lethal solo show at this bar on S. Preston, an easy 90 minute drive. But the bus was eight hours late, so I slept on the litter-strewn brown tile floor of the chilly bus terminal in Cincinnati, forced to...
Kyocera Buscoder a.k.a. Roll Bus Roll
It’s our last show with Jeffrey Lewis. It’s my last show with Michael Lawless and Matt Keegan. That means that tonight it was time to mine the Volvo and pry out all of my belongings and get into Bus Mode. Bus Mode consists of:
1) A gray Japanese canvas backpack with an absurd number of pockets containing clothing, hygiene items, a mobile recording rig, and a laptop computer.
2) A...
October 2011
9 posts
