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Everything, everything, everything, everything..
In its right place, In its right place
In its right place, In its right place

Listen :: Radiohead
Everything In Its Right Place (Gigamesh Remix v2.0)

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ATJ presents THE OCTAGON, Sunday, August 30, 2009, at After the Jump Fest 2009. This year’s 3rd annual festival is a three day extravaganza of independent music, and will take place at Brooklyn NY’s Littlefield Performance & Art Space.  Individual and weekend passes are available to purchase online here.

Listen :: The Octagon – Weekends

In preparation for After the Jump Fest 2009, Music Is Art asked The Octagon’s drummer/vocalist Will Glass to answer our ATJF Interview questions, and below are his special replies.

Please share your earliest memory involving or creating music.

Will: 1985, going to Eastland Mall and buying the cassette single of “Touch of Grey” by the Grateful Dead. On the playing side: Christmas 1988, letting loose on a new sears drum set. It would be a solid two years before I realized drums kept time, so until then, I was basically a free jazz drummer.

May you share about your academic background concerning music? Did you study formally? Any special mentors?

Will: I took lessons 1994-2002 and studied music theory 1998-1999 but found bandmates and musician friends to be the more informative teachers. Zack and the Bunny from our band have both had stints in lessons but would probably cite more distant, inspirational musical mentors like R. Pollard or Jerry Garcia.

If you had to explain your music to a stranger, how would you do so?

Will: “Stranger, our music comes from within. It is for our enjoyment and yours, and for all. We have life experiences transmitted sound. Come, stranger, and listen.”

What are your favorite instruments to work with and what aspects do you like most about using them?

Will: The Octagon is a Rock and Roll band favoring the traditional instrumentation of electric guitar, electric bass and trap kit, which we like because they’re our means of expressing ourselves. Our upcoming full length has a few horn cameos, used in a soloist fashion to bring another creative voice to the mix.

What are your inspirations?

Will: Music, friends and life experiences. Also literature and film. For example, Zack’s new composition “Clew Haywood” is named after a ball-player character of that name in the film “Major League”.

On average, how long does it take for you to create a song?

Will: I’m the drummer, and only recently started writing songs. I’ve written eight songs so far, in 2 or 3 years. Most of mine have been a melodic kernel that’s been in my head for years, which it takes a couple weeks to get out into a full song. But a couple just kind of shat themselves out, once I had my bandmates help me figure out chords and stuff. Zack will come up with a song all at once then fine-tune it over a week or two, but sometimes they emerge from his head fully formed.

What would your number one suggestion be for someone who wants to do what you do?

Will: Do it yo!

On the website Music Is Art, our mission is to show how music and art are simply connected. Which albums do you credit as having the biggest influences as far as your life and creativity are concerned?

Will: Sticking to albums relevant to The Octagon as a whole…. Guided by Voices, esp. Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes, records that inspire us to write a lot of songs and get them recorded and then keep doing that. Dinosaur Jr’s Green Mind, the product of one tuneful man. The Minutemen catalog, esp. Double Nickels, for, among other things, its ongoing narrative of a true friendship. The Feelies’ Crazy Rhythms – gotta stay fast and true. Exile on Main St.

If you could have a drink with one musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you like to ask them?

Will: Sun Ra. Question: “So, what’s your favorite Miles Davis album?”

What do you hope people take from seeing you perform live?

Will: “Hey, that band was great. I like their songs, and they have a winning stage presence.”

What has been your favorite experience thus far in your career?

Will: Making our forthcoming third record, Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever, which we did ourselves on four track cassette.

What exciting projects do you have coming up?

Will: We’re entering the era of non-physically manifested music by releasing a download-only EP for free. It’s called Arm Brain Heart and Liver and it comes out on September 1st on Serious Business. We have a release show Sept 3rd at Bruar Falls with Kleenex Girl Wonder. The EP is a kind of precursor for the 16-song vinyl full length that comes out in early 2010, Warm Love and Cool Dreams Forever.

May you have a particular inspired quote, statement or favorite words to live by?

Will: “Uh!” -James Brown

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The Walkmen‘s 2008 album You & Me is one of those beautiful records that after each listen, the haunting sounds and electrifying details keep getting stronger. Personally, a favorite track from The Walkmen’s fourth album is On the Water, as the melody brings to mind the complete feeling of a warm summer night, sitting near the ocean while watching the blue waves crash against the shore. When lead vocalist Hamilton Leithauser nonchalantly sings “Oh you know I’d never leave you, no matter how hard I try”, the discomfort of his lyrics translate into an honest struggle of holding on to a relationship. Today Pitchfork presented The Walkmen’s dark new video for On The Water, under the animated direction of Nir Ben Jacob.

The past few weeks have been fairly hectic, and unfortunately, this column has suffered its weekly spot, so expect a few over coming weeks to compensate.

Jamie Jones‘ debut album, to be released 31st August, must seemingly come from nowhere; unknown except in the underground club scene, where his name is spiraling to a stage impossible to ignore. ‘Don’t You Remember the Future’ sounds just like it’s title; a tech-house album that plays with, and pushes, sci-fi imagery to an aural plateau that is mesmerizing and brilliant.

‘Don’t You Remember the Future’ is instantly dark; the minor chord patterns that feature in place and choice of ethereal synthesizers in others, create an unparalleled atmosphere from start to finish. The arbitrary blips, glips, and other sound effects, that intersperse sound as percussion only add to this, and Jamie Jones’ vocal sampling really sets a new standard within the genre.

Despite the eerie tone of the record, in no place does it loses it energy; Jamie Jones’ peaks and drops are energetic throughout. ‘Summertime’ and ‘Galactic Space Bar’ have been filling underground clubs in London for months now, but ‘Sand Dunes’, ‘Belter’ and ‘Turning Tables’ stand even stronger with their ability to move the listener.

The L.P. is a self-proclaimed concept album; a journey through his own experimental subconscious, and for an hour its one of the most hypnotic, captivating experiences you’ll have. My only desire now with this record is to experience more of it in a club; any club-goers will know the difference the club makes, but bear witness to the fact that this already blows you away at home. He’s gotten here quickly, and from the sound of this album it seems like space is the only limit.

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Listen :: The Shins – Spilt Needles [Wincing the Night Away, 2007]

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ATJ presents DAS RACIST, Saturday, August 29, 2009, at After the Jump Fest 2009. This year’s 3rd annual festival is a three day extravaganza of independent music, and will take place at Brooklyn NY’s Littlefield Performance & Art Space.

The silly art rap, freak folk styling of Das Racist will be throwing a late night party along with artists such as Free Energy, Drink Up Buttercup, Talk Normal, Shark?, and Captain Ahab and the Sea Crackens.  Individual and weekend passes are available to purchase online here.

Listen :: The Combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell

In preparation for After the Jump Fest 2009, Music Is Art asked the lovely duo of Das Racist to answer our ATJF Interview questions, and below are their special replies.

Please share your earliest memory involving or creating music.

Victor: I was a concert pianist at the age of 8, mostly Chopin mazurkas and a couple Beethoven symphonies. I studied piano at Oberlin Conservatory. Professor Tom Lopez was a huge influence. And Sun Ra has always been a spiritual godfather.

Himanshu: I’ve been a master of the Tabla since I first started studying under the esteemed Zakir Hussain at the age of five. He taught me everything I know about rap also.

If you had to explain your sound to a stranger, how would you do so?

Victor: Using only hand gestures.

Himanshu: Interpretive dance.  A piece I put together called HARDBODY.

What are your favorite instruments to work with and what do you like most about using them?

Victor: I’ll always love the piano, but I also like the trumpet. It’s very intuitive.

Himanshu: My favorite instrument is the tabla, though like Victor I’m a huge fan of the trumpet.  Melodicas are also splendid.

What are your inspirations?

Victor: Flowers, birds, trees, everything in nature, mythical gods, real ones, the cosmos…

Himanshu: The Wayans family.

On average, how long does it take for you to create a song?

Victor: Every song I’ve made this year has been twenty-five years in the making.

Himanshu: Every song I’ve made this year has taken about twenty-five minutes to make.

With Music Is Art, our mission is to show how music and art are simply connected. Which albums do you credit as having the biggest influences as far as your life is concerned?

Victor: Sun Ra’s Nuclear War, Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica, Flipper’s Generic Flipper, The Germs’s (GI), and KMD’s Mr. Hood.

Himanshu: Beastie Boys’ Pauls Boutique, Biggie’s Ready to Die, KMD’s Black Bastards, Wu-Tang Clan’s 36 Chambers, Nas’ Illmatic (duhh), Television’s Marquee Moon, The Stone Roses’s The Stone Roses, and Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

If you could have a drink with one musician, living or dead, who would it be and what would you like to ask them?

Victor: Beethoven. I wouldn’t ask him anything, I’d just touch his hand.

Himanshu: Biggie, and I would say, hey Biggie, “Who Shot Ya?”

What do you hope people take from seeing you perform live?

Victor: Anything.

Himanshu: Everything.

What has been your favorite experience thus far in your career?

Victor: Falling asleep in a field full of flowers on a sunny day with Stephanie Smith.

Himanshu: This interview.

What would your number one suggestion be for someone who wants to do what you do?

Victor: Don’t do what I do, do what you do.

Himanshu: Don’t watch me, watch TV.

What exciting projects do you have coming up?

Victor: We’re starting a new super-group. We really can’t say much else.

Himanshu: Vic, you’ve already said too much.

May you have a particular inspired quote, statement or favorite words to live by?

Victor: “Ay!” –OJ Da Juiceman.

Himanshu: “Ay!” – Juelz Santana. Actually, no, scratch that – I’m going to go with “Ayyyyyyyy” – Young Jeezy

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Madonna was born on August 16, 1958 and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan.  She is greatly known for her influential hit singles, Academy Award nominated lead acting roles, and ranked by the RIAA as the best selling female rock artist of the twentieth century.  Today marks Madonna’s 51st birthday and she still seems to enjoy never slowing down.  Her music continually reinvents her style, while allowing Madonna to revolutionize an essence as a queen of pop.

Listen ♥ Madonna – Bedtime Story (Orbital Edit)

With visual direction and guest vocals by M.I.A., Baltimore, Maryland’s Rye Rye showcases an upbeat funk style, bangs it out through lo-fi hip hop as a manic soundtrack to the scene of an underground basement club, with people break dancing in neon skeleton-like attire.

LISTEN Rye Rye (featuring MIA) – Bang

Being able to see Beyoncé two weeks ago at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut was surreal.  Ever since the show it’s been impossible to go through a day and not listen to her music.  This time though it’s not because Beyoncé is heard always on the radio, it’s because when reflecting on her concert, her vocals, choreography, charisma, dancing, presence was absolutely illuminating. A good sign of seeing a good concert is when you just can’t stop listening to the music, because you want to.

Watching Beyoncé on stage, and understanding how much she puts into her own tour is overwhelming.  Between five different types of dress changes and the way each scene’s background blends in with the lights as the film-like video cameras circle around the stage and capture Beyoncé’s every moment.  She cascades from side to side, down and up stairs dressed so beautifully in a bright white gown that flows against an ocean-like background, and then soars throughout the air back-flipping into the sky while glittering inside yards of a gold dress and flying within seconds to a second stage in the middle of the stadium’s floor.

Still days even after seeing her show, it’s still almost unbelievable to have witnessed Beyoncé live.  The crowd is so diversified, and every person that attends knows all the words, even the scattered men throughout the crowd love it too.  It’s entertainment with elegance and times of pure naughtiness that make you finally see what Beyonce’s side persona Sasha Fierce resembles. Recommended for all fans of new and old, as she honestly showcases truly all the hard work of creating a world tour, and what it takes to be a true performer.

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