Oh lovely; I adore writing about music festivals that I won't be attending. At least Camp Bisco 6 looks like it will feature primarily electronica -- a fact that will make both my future absence less painful (not really my…
Continue Reading →Last Saturday, architect-designer Chris Deam made a stop in Boulder to give a presentation at our local Design Within Reach. Deam's work for Airstream, an unlikely alliance that has been met with surprising enthusiasm and success, recently led to the…
Continue Reading →A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers! Feist! Jim James of My Morning Jacket! Sarah Vowel! Demetri Martin! I like these people! I like their musical and comedic styling! They're all going to be on one stage! The stage of the…
Continue Reading →It's the 60th Anniversary of The Handlebar Club, a London-based (but world-proliferated) tribute to "hirstute appendages of the upper lip, with graspable extremities," and the JS team has unanimously voted in favor of a stateside celebration. Rest assured we will…
Continue Reading →Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are hosting two days each of the country's first-ever Indie Rock Festival (July 25-27), bringing in England's The Magic Numbers and The Rakes as headliners alongside some very good Brazilian indie artists. The indie…
Continue Reading →There are still a (very small) handful of tickets available for the Mashup 2007 conference presented by my friend Anatasia of Ypulse. If you're going to be in the Bay Area July 16th and 17th and want to get the…
Continue Reading →A few days ago, I went to check out an instrumental metal band from Sao Paulo called Elma, who covered Portishead in a heavy, swaggering style. Pretty gnarly, right? But wait, it gets even better: They recruited the guitarist's dark-haired…
Continue Reading →Yesterday I paid a visit to the Apple Store in Boulder (above, left), and I could feel the iPhone buzz in the air already (I mean a palpable sort of buzz, more intense than the steady, annoying buzz that has…
Continue Reading →This is a sick aspect of my personality, but I will absolutely judge you based on your font usage. If I happen to peek over at your computer and you have so much as a widget displaying crappy typeography, I'm…
Continue Reading →Every so often, I review my browsing history and start to feel a bit jaded. I mean, surely there's more to life than secret retail sales, snarky blogs, and open bars... right? (I don't know where you're getting these crackpot…
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