please let this possibility become a reality once again
According to the new @PortisheadClub Twitter account, there’s a possibility of Portishead playing at the 2011 edition of Coachella! This is too much for me to handle. The triple knockout of Kraftwerk, Portishead, and Prince in 2008 comprises what I consider to be the best night of music I’ve ever experienced.
Update: So whoever is running that account is claiming to have confirmed that No Doubt, The Strokes, and Soundgarden are also playing Coachella this year. This sounds like a long-shot in my opinion.
The cover of the self-titled debut album by The B-52s
This song comes from one of my ten “desert island” albums: the self-titled debut album from The B-52s. The album was one of my family’s road-trip tapes when I was younger, and I adore it for many reasons, most of which are alive in this song. It’s kitsch, it’s camp, it’s weird, it’s emotional, but most of all, it’s incredibly pop.
I mean, who else could pull off screaming, “WHY DON’T YOU DANCE WITH ME?! I’M NOT NO LIMBURGER!”
Andy Denzler’s line of paintings mimic the effect of an image being digitally compressed. It’s a pretty awesome effect, and the concept of the organic imitating the digital is quite intriguing.
This is from a few months back, but I figured that the N != NP problem is always relevant so I might as well post it.
Here’s a quick summary of the problem:
“P versus NP” is more than just an abstract mathematical puzzle. It seeks to determine–once and for all–which kinds of problems can be solved by computers, and which kinds cannot. “P”-class problems are “easy” for computers to solve; that is, solutions to these problems can be computed in a reasonable amount of time compared to the complexity of the problem. Meanwhile, for “NP” problems, a solution might be very hard to find–perhaps requiring billions of years’ worth of computation–but once found, it is easily checked.
The “P versus NP problem” asks whether these two classes are actually identical; that is, whether every NP problem is also a P problem. If P equals NP, every NP problem would contain a hidden shortcut, allowing computers to quickly find perfect solutions to them. But if P does not equal NP, then no such shortcuts exist, and computers’ problem-solving powers will remain fundamentally and permanently limited. Practical experience overwhelmingly suggests that P does not equal NP. But until someone provides a sound mathematical proof, the validity of the assumption remains open to question.
This past summer I worked for a social gaming company in Mountain View. I remember getting into a good discussion with some coworkers about this problem. That’s another reason why working in nerd-land was nice; conversations about unsolved computer science questions are par for the course. That being said, my algorithms class last semester was nearly the end of me.
History of South Africa: Nelson Mandela, District 9, Die Antwoord. That’s it.
Like most everyone else on the interwebs, I’d seen the Die Antwoord videos as they came out and spread like wildfire. Then I saw them at their first US show in the Saraha Tent at Coachella for a 25 minute set before 2 many djs.
If you’ve seenthevideos, you’re probably confused on many levels. After I saw them at Coachella, I was still confused.
I’m willing to give him another chance because he can still do stuff like this (‘this’ being the SNL performance.) This is what I want from a professional entertainer who’s going for a spectacle. Don’t half-ass it; go big like Kanye and Lady Gaga are doing.
I think that the way he is releasing music is ingenious. Every Friday = GOOD Friday. We get an incredible song packed with special guests for free. His forthcoming album will most likely be released in a traditional fashion, but what he is doing now get him positive attention from all sides (he looks like a nicer person, people love free stuff,etc.) Continue reading “Kanye West – Power (Live on SNL)”→
Somehow this totally slipped under my radar earlier this year. Son Lux’s debut album At War with Walls & Mazes blew me away, and this EP is no different. It is full of reworked versions of the LP’s standout track “Weapons” is an example of the many ways one melodic idea can evolve; each track is unique.
Make sure to listen to this with both headphones in and turned up loud.
Son Lux – Weapons V
I feel that this is what BT would sound like if he was a bit more experimental…
The ever-elusive Zomby (because he decides not to com to shows sometimes)
This song is part of the dubstep canon, but does anyone know if this guy is putting out any new material soon? If I had Where Were You In ’92 on vinyl the grooves would be worn out by now.
The link? Five new songs featuring an all-star lineup of Common, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Big Sean, Charlie Wilson, Justin Bieber, Raekwon, Jay-Z, Bon Iver, Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, and Swizz Beats. Hit up the link, give him your email, and check out these songs:
Good Friday (feat. Common, Pusha T, Kid Cudi, Big Sean & Charlie Wilson)
Devil In A New Dress
Runaway Love (Remix) (feat. Justin Bieber & Raekwon)
Monster (feat. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver & Nicki Minaj)
CX KiDTRONiK, Nic Endo, and Alec Empire (left to right) of Atari Teenage Riot
Back in the days when I used the public library system to build my music collection (I was a master at CD ripping), I came across this group called Atari Teenage Riot. When I listened to their album Burn, Berlin, Burn, my concept of what music could be was drastically changed. I don’t think I liked or dislike them at first (digital hardcore is damn abrasive to be sure); they were like nothing else I’d ever heard. But, as with much of the music I was discovering at that time, I soon learned that the group has broken up a few years prior.
Jump forward some eight years, and now ATR is back! They’ve signed onto Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak record label and have a three month international tour lined up for this fall (starting today in Berlin, Germany.) Check out the awesome new live video for their song “Activate” below:
