@ PB2 with Revengineers, The Wallpaper, and Spoonboy!
Bring $5-10 for touring bands, please!
This is going to be a great night.
@ PB2 with Revengineers, The Wallpaper, and Spoonboy!
Bring $5-10 for touring bands, please!
This is going to be a great night.
We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? Translations of all sorts can, at best, ensure our shared survival. And at worst, mistranslations have had varied, far-reaching and often disastrous effects, as basic as “all your base are belong to us” or as serious as botched postwar food aid.
This time it’s all about translation. What is it? Is it an art or a science? What does it mean to translate something correctly— and, more importantly, what happens when translation goes wrong.
Next week: “Loudness Wars”
Another great podcast by my friend Blake.
One of the most viral memes in popular culture came way before the invention of the internet. Ever since the iconic opening bars of the Ronettes’ hit “Be My Baby” first blasted from a hi-fi back in 1963, the same drum beat has been used in songs by everyone from The Beatles to Lady Gaga.
Join me for the inaugural episode of Sounds Familiar as I trace the beat, and its influences, through the decades, and find out what happens when a somewhat obsessive person like myself attempts to ask the most difficult question of all… why?
Next week: “Bad Translations”
Listen to my brilliant friend and long time collaborator Blake Cooper’s new podcast Sounds Familiar. It’s really really good.
THIS IS TOMORROW NIGHT!
Come check out some intense arm battles and help support Rape Crisis Service in Rochester!
Seriously, you do not want to miss this. See you there!
this is going to be absolutely bananas. seriously, if you don’t come to this, you’ll regret it!
(also, the doctor said i won’t be contagious anymore by then!)
come to this or you’re dead to me.
I’ll be at this tonight.
ALBUM WALKS: Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970, 36:29)
Some albums are like old friends. I got Bridge Over Troubled Water on CD when I was 15. My stepdad got me a job mowing the lawn at the cemetery down the street from our house, which I did for three summers. I listened to this album hundreds of times on my headphones walking behind a lawnmower and I’ve listened to it a thousand times since then. There are very few albums I know as well as this one. When I listen to it I feel like I’m listening to my own history. It’s one of those albums where it seems strange to think that other people listen to it too.
I walked around Highland Park in the grass and listened to Bridge. It was like hanging out with an old friend.
Also, Baby Driver is the fucking best song ever.