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AC Superfly have announced the partial line-up for Bonnaroo 2010, and as a blizzard approaches NYC, I’m going through my camping gear. I’ll be posting amazing new Bonnaroo highlights over the next coming weeks, and here are some classic moments at the Roo from Phoenix, The Flaming Lips, Led Zep’s John Paul Jones + Ben Harper + ?uestlove, The Mars Volta, David Byrne, !!!, The Disco Biscuits and Lily Allen.
Highly politicized found sound auteur Matthew Herbert is at it again, this time, recording the life of a pig from birth to death to the meal that follows. I had dinner with Herbert once many years ago. He’s definately what one might call an over-thinker.
To document the project, he has started Herbert Pig blog, where heissued the following dogmatic statement:
“in 2010 i will release a record entitled ‘the pig’ [current title One Pig]
it will be made up entirely of sounds made during the life cycle of a pig.
i will be there at its birth
during its life
present at its death
and during the butchery process.
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The announcement that Jay-Z will be filling in for the Beastie Boys at All Points West following annoucement of MCA’s health concerns marks the first time the world’s biggest rapper will perform at a US Festival. Having rocked Glastonbury last year, is Jay ready to become the go-to MC for large scale events? It could be a better career move than say, being CEO of a record label.
The fact that Jigga want’s to be a “rock star” is hardly news to anyone who has watched him jump from height to height over his career. It’s been a decade since he was much concerned with being the world greatest rapper. And his foray as the CEO MC seems to have slowed with the rest of the global economy. He first dropped the words “rock …
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