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November 14, 2006
Girl Talk at Local 506
Locals have probably seen this show on the 506 schedule for many minutes now....but since we're halfway through November already, I need to go ahead and make some official noise about the fact that Local 506 and Tuba Frenzy are bringing the one and only GIRL TALK to Chapel Hill on Saturday, December 2nd!
Girl Talk, you say? Get familiar if you haven't already. Or check out a track from album-of-the-year contender Night Ripper:
Girl Talk - "Hold Up" (2:50, 5.89 MB)
I've been a Girl Talk enthusiast for pretty much the entire existence of this stupid blog, so I'm psyched to have a small part in making this show happen. Girl Talk mastermind Gregg Gillis doesn't go on regular "tours" so much as he does long weekend jaunts where his work schedule allows. So raise up, North Carolina, this is your one chance to see the notorious Girl Talk live show in a club near you! Advance tickets are only $10 and are available online via Etix. They're moving fairly quickly, so if you really wanna party with Girl Talk, I'd suggest buying a ticket fairly soon-like.
Opening up Girl Talk's 506 show will be local party crews Kerbloki (the full-band version!) and Robo Sapien (who've been working on a brand new set). And our pal Ricky Dollars might be putting in an appearance as well, so come early and get ready to tear da club up!!
Posted by Tim at 09:47 PM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2006
Happy Veterans Day
It was a good week, yes. Celebrate good times this Saturday night at Hell....'cause as Papa D is wont to say, "It's nation time!".
This month's Disco Inferno comes correct with two of the best DJs in town, L in Japanese and One Duran. I was originally supposed to be in San Diego this weekend, but those plans were cancelled. So maybe I'll just hit the dancefloor...
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November 03, 2006
Keep Feeling Fascination
The 2006 edition of Da Capo Best Music Writing just came out, and it's got a bunch of recent music writing worth reading and revisiting. Notable inclusions in this year's anthology: Wayne Marshall's brilliant and much-linked-to blog treatise on reggaeton & rhythm, an Ol' Dirty Bastard obit by Jon Caramanica, the hilarious CliffsNotes-inspired study guide for the epic masterpiece Trapped In The Closet, and Nick Weidenfeld's fascinating FADER piece on David Berman of the Silver Jews. The latter article goes into detail about Berman's attempt to commit suicide several years ago...definitely an intense read that answers many questions about Berman's psychology and life philosophy. But I'm gonna have to take slight issue with the assertion that "this is the first extended interview Berman has ever given". Maybe the first in a long while, ahem...
At any rate, as great as many of the Da Capo selections are, I've gotta focus the most fanfare on longtime Tuba Friend and NC native Dave Tompkins, whose Scratch Magazine cover story on Timbaland was also included in this year's edition of the book. "Impression To 'Land" first landed on magazine racks in the early summer of 2005, back when the electroconvulsive "Put You On The Game" was Timbo's hottest but seemingly only beat-of-the-moment. Given all the huge success and exposure that Timbaland's had this year with Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake, this particular Scratch story is now as essential as ever.
This all leads up to the fact that Mr. Tompkins will actually be rolling into Chapel Hill at some point tomorrow...and we're planning on "redistricting" a couple of hours' worth of Saturday night's After School Special at Fuse. This month's After School Special is doubling as DJ Silvaback's official Triple X Throwdown....so Silvaback will be mixing it up at midnight in honor of his personal milestone. And Dave and I will probably be playing music of all sorts before and after....Dave's got some weird rap records to play, and I'm bringing my Human League "Fascination!" 12-inch, among other things. Sadly, Timbaland will not be around to hum the "warbled synth riff", but the super-fresh extended mix of the song ("Fascination-Improvisation") has all sorts of stuttering-beat craziness that Mr. Mosley would definitely double-dig. Take 'em to the chorus!
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