Autumn is setting in, which brings with it a cold, crisp, fragrant wind, and a humble and familiar change in the tones of nature that touch our very souls and affect its temperament. It leaves me in an ambivalent state, I already miss the warmth of summer, but I look forward to the sobering silence […]

Tags: Acoustic, Ambient, Beko, Benoît Pioulard, Deerhunter, Foxes in Fiction, Indie, Kranky, Orchid Tapes, Rock, Trans-Bedroom Sound

Last Friday, I got to take part in the first public use of PaintOut, a digital spraypaint program developed by fellow Parsons MFA DT candidate, Leif Percifield. Developed over a two-year period while in New Mexico, Percifield built a transparent digital spray can that contains an infrared sensor, color-picker dial with nifty LED indicator, and […]

I think today could use a bit of popmusik, wouldn’t you agree? Today’s posts are filled with great examples of indie pop music, from respectably-signed to virtually undiscovered, there’s a wide world of people who are making bright, accessible, style-drenched pop that will likely (secretly) influence the kinds of people who define what’s cool in […]

Tags: 4AD Records, Body Language, Casio-fi, Free Music, Indie, Lips, Pop, Rock, The Hundred In The Hands, Twin Shadow, Warp Records

Who’s ready for a fresh dose of deep house? Press play, let’s jump in. Pirahnahead & Clara Hill – Badly (Simbad’s Motorcity Remix) – (single) Just caught Simbad on the Freerange Podcast with a really dope remix for some unknown artist named Agape, while I salivate over that remix to come out, I have been […]

Tags: 40 Thieves, Akabu, Clara Hill, Dance, Deep House, Freerange, Fritz Zander, Jimpster, Johnny Dynell, Lounge, Pirahnahead, Simbad, Smash Hit Music, Suol, Tensnake

If you enjoyed my mid-century jazz post a couple weeks ago, I’ve got another round of essentials for you to steam on, this time all chosen directly from Blue Note releases, and each accompanied with the corresponding beautiful Reid Miles-directed cover art. I am beginning to think that in order to understand mid-century design style […]

Tags: Art Blakey, Blue Note, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Jazz Messengers, Mid-Century, Reid Miles, Wayne Shorter

I looked at the forecast last night and saw nothing but dark clouds and raindrops. Then, much later in the evening, I looked out of the big window in the kitchen to see orange clouds bustling hastily across a sky of burnt sienna. I woke up this morning in Brooklyn with the cold nipping at […]

Tags: Belgium, Berlin, Deep House, Greg Parker, Nina Kravis, No Regular Play, Plastic City, San Soda, Terry Lee Brown Junior, Terry's Cafe, The Gym, We Play House, Wolf + Lamb

The photos you see above were taken on a cell phone. If you’re as surprised to read that as I am, don’t be alarmed. As a Droid X user who has opted to wait yet another two-year contract cycle before purchasing the ever-beautiful communications experience that is the iPhone, my introduction to the world of […]

Tags: Analog, Camera 360, Camera Apps, Digital Photography, Droid X, New York City, NYC, Photography, Review