Geneseo’s “Automatic Music Can Be Fun”

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Knile | January 30, 2014

Geneseo’s “Automatic Music Can Be Fun”

Photo by Sharon Cantillon / Buffalo News

Preparing myself for the whatever-whatever that is the annual Grammy Awards, I came across a nice little story. A coupla guys who call their band Geneseo, after the upstate New York town they hail from (not far from a couple places I call “home”), were up for a Grammy for album art, against David Bowie, Jay Z, Metallica. They’re not a household name yet, but they partnered with a couple of local visual artists, Annie Stoll and Brian Gunert of White Bicycle to create a unique-sounding package with scratch-off surfaces. Looks like Geneseo got together an Indiegogo campaign to travel to the awards ceremony.

The article that I learned a lot of this from was from The Daily News, a local-to-Geneseo newspaper.

Excellent work, all.

Category: Art, design, illustration, Knile, music | Tags: album, art, Autmatic Music Can Be Fun, cover, Geneseo, Grammy Awards, music, packaging

Knile | December 21, 2013

Year-End-Type-Things And The Usual Nonsense

60 Great Albums You Probably Haven’t Heard
SubNav DJ mixes
Awesome Tapes from Africa
The Pizza Underground with Mac Culkin
Maximalism – Songs About Pizza
arch8 – my true north (modern dance)
She Hates My Futon, a novella
Rejection Line
Dial-A-Song
Field Guide to Imaginary Beings
A Peek Into the Home Life of Cosplay Enthusiasts
Sam Sandler, America’s premier Deaf magician
Global Village Construction Set
Philly’s Top 10 Street Art Moments of 2013
Graffiti Hunters

Category: Art, dance, graffiti, Knile, Uncategorized | Tags: africa, cosplay, fiction, imaginary beings, mixtapes, modern dance, music, phones, pizza, she hates my futon, street art

thos | December 17, 2013

Tuesday Forecast Addendum: Hott Lunch

Common Folk homie Hott Lunch just dropped Snacks as a follow up to his Soft Drink release from last year. If you like some etherial electronic with some sticky sweet synths/vocal samples, and 808 trap drums, do yourself a favor and give in.

Category: Hip Hop, music | Tags: brooklyn, hott lunch, music, release, snacks

thos | August 14, 2013

Tuesday Forecast (Late Edition, Again)

So occasionally one knows it’s tuesday but doesn’t know it’s tuesday. I’m late, again. I blame it on being so excited that I was able to obtain (completely legit) a copy of Chop’s Illuminate on vinyl in advance that when the actual tuesday release date rolled around I wasn’t ready for it. I’m also pretty intrigued to hear what sort of electrofuturespacehiphop beats Ras G has to offer up on Back on the Planet (on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label). And if you were/are an indy hip hop fan then you know Rawkus Killer Cuts is gonna be a great trip down memory lane. Also, throwing in a DVD this week Charles Bradley: Soul of America “charts the extraordinary late-in-life rise of 62-year-old aspiring soul singer…whose debut album famously rocketed the James Brown impersonator from a hard life in the Brooklyn projects to Rolling Stone magazine’s top 50 albums of 2011. This award-winning documentary explores Charles’ remarkable journey through abandonment, homelessness and tragedy to critically acclaimed recordings with the masters of modern soul Daptone and Dunham Records.”

Category: Hip Hop, music, Thos, tuesday forecast | Tags: back on the planet, charles bradley, chop, illuminate, mr. chop, music, new, ras g, rawkus, releases, skillz beats, soul of america

thos | July 30, 2013

Tuesday Forecast

Some deep, dark off center rhymes from Ka, I haven’t checked him out before this but The Night’s Gambit is coming off pretty ill. Castle also brings some pretty straighforward hip hop with the Gasface. Also this week throwing in some instrumental hip hop/electronic and some out-there, chilled out, atmospheric, funk, electronic ish with Express Rising.

Category: music, Thos, tuesday forecast | Tags: castle, duke westlake, express rising, gasface, ka, music, new, releases, the nights gambit

DCDan | May 10, 2013

Passwords, Sound Advice and Tunes

Passwords are weak and easily broken FIDO might scratch an itch.

Speaking of the weakness of passwords The Onion gives some solid advice on browser security.

This is pretty amazing, sounds from nearly every genre of music if you click on the arrow it will take you to a list of the artists with more sound samples.