Moby just published an interesting post at his blog, suggesting that none of today’s music compares to George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: this won’t make sense to some of the people who are reading this, but i just finished listening to ‘rhapsody in blue’ from start to finish and i’m convinced it’s the best thing… Read More Moby: None Of Today’s Music Compares To Rhapsody in Blue
Ambient electronic musician Robert Rich has penned a great response to a piece by Wired’s Kevin Kelly that suggested that musicians should strive for 1000 true fans: I agree strongly with your basic thesis, that artists can survive on the cusp of the long tail by nurturing the help of dedicated fans; but perhaps I… Read More Robert Rich On The Reality of Depending on True Fans
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a review of the influential German group Kraftwerk’s 100-minute show at the Myth nightclub. The performance was a warm-up for a headlining gig at Coachella next week. It’s not clear if the show was terrible or if the review doesn’t like their music – but it seems that they hate… Read More Minneapolis Hates Kraftwerk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ach9Byn2ND4 The big beat sound is still great – but Prodigy’s Firestarter video hasn’t aged so well. I remember it as being more dark, twisted and David Lynch. Watching it now, though, Keith Flint looks a lot like an emo version of Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss. And lyrics like “I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter,” don’t sound… Read More Prodigy’s Firestarter Hasn’t Aged So Well
David Byrne and Brian Eno are working together again, planning an album and possibly a tour: The dream art-rock team of David Byrne and Brian Eno will return with new, strange fruit soon, the former Talking Heads man told NME.com recently. Speaking at an event in New York, Byrne revealed that the duo had rekindled… Read More David Byrne & Brian Eno Working On Album, Tour
Classical minimalist composer Philip Glass, who wrote music for both the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2004 Athens Games, isn’t looking forward to the competitions in Beijing. “I think that we should pull out,” says Glass. “The Chinese are supposed to be taking care of human rights; they haven’t done it. The only reason… Read More Philip Glass Doesn’t Support Chinese Commie Olympics
Here’s the official blurb on Moby’s latest, Last Night: After the meditative electronica of 2002’s 18 and the singer-songwriter moves of 2005’s Hotel, moby returns to the dance floor with a vengeance on his new album Last Night, released on 31st March 2008. Spanning hands-in-the-air, Smiley-faced rave anthems, cosmic Giorgio Moroder-styled Euro-disco, hip-hop both old… Read More Moby – Last Night
Moby talks about his new album, Last Night, and talks about MobyGratis, his free music project for filmmakers.
We normally don’t get into celebrity gossip – but this rumor is too juicy to let pass by. FoxNews reports that not only does Moby have a crush on Britney Spears, but he wants to marry her: Moby has developed an unlikely crush on Britney Spears. The hip electronica artist said he’d marry the former… Read More Don’t Do It Moby! Britney’s No Good For You!
Alex Paterson from The Orb at Ealing Studios on his new project, High Frequency Bandwidth, and pimping the BBC 6 Mix show.
