I put these things together for you guys to read, out of love, but also out of a desire for money. Does getting paid for loving you make me some kind of prostitute? Then why does it feel so real?
Check out this interview I did for Interview Magazine with Boston's Earthquake Party! Interviewed 'em up right good, did I.
We're fully immersed in the age of EDM: each beat and synth riff pushing through the club speakers has been sequenced with the utmost precision, and there's very little left to chance in the music of the moment. Even the most glitchy, lo-fi productions are artfully calculated as such. Fortunately, there have always been artists who lean more toward the chaotic side of things—bands who don't always have a plan for how to get to the end of the song they've just launched into (never mind to tomorrow's gig)....more
I wrote about Muse's new Olympics theme song "Survival" for Vice.
“Yes, I'm going to win. I'll light the fuse, and I'll never lose,” he sings, while a chorus of scary Oompa Loompas chant in the background. “I choose to survive, whatever it takes, you won't pull ahead, and I'll keep up the pace. And I'll give my strength, to the whole human race.” It's a pretty accurate look inside the head of a world class athlete, or an ambitious rock band, because every single one of those dudes is insane....more
The dudes behind the Mmmmaven agency and Together Festival are trying to kick off a DJ school in Cambridge. I wrote about it in the Boston Globe.
Take a music fan to see a DJ perform and you entertain him for the night. Teach him to DJ, and he’ll entertain the rest of us for years.
That’s the philosophy at work behind the the Mmmmaven Project, a DJ and electronic music production school set to launch in August in Central Square, Cambridge. The school is an offshoot of the promotions and management company Mmmmaven, run by David Day and Alex Maniatis, two of the founders of the annual Together electronic music festival. They’re currently in the middle of a fund-raising initiative on the crowd-funding site Indiegogo....more
This is one of the best new cocktail lists I've seen in a while. I wrote about the newly opened West Bridge in the Metro.
The opening of a number of promising new bar-centric bars around the city has given way to a regression of sorts in recent months, trending toward more style over substance. That's why the opening of West Bridge in Kendall Square is so heartening for the cocktail and spirits-focused drinker....more
I asked a bunch of writers and bartenders what their picks were for the best cocktail reading for Stuff.
For a lot of us, summer reading assignments were a dreadful chore. (For others, they fueled our imaginations and made us dream about the magic of the written word. Then we got jobs at lifestyle magazines.) As adults, though, we find summer reading is actually exciting; it’s our chance to turn off the brain for a while, crack open some trashy lit at the beach, and read with a margarita in hand.
But wait, what kind of margarita? Or maybe we’d rather a Tom Collins or a Pimm’s Cup. But how do you make a Tom Collins again? And where were Pimm’s Cups invented, anyway? Now these are important subjects for summer studying. So we tapped some boozy bibliophiles for their picks for the best cocktail-related tomes around....more
Here are a bunch of blog posts I did for Bullett n Lana Del Ray, Odd Future, Kevin James' new MMA movie, Yeasayer, Dum Dum Girls, and other important things.
Will HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’ Be the Next ‘Lost’?
Tom Perotta’s 2011 novel The Leftovers is a story about a group of survivors struggling to come to grips with a bizarre new reality, and trying to survive dangerous circumstances after a mysterious event leaves them stranded and alone. So naturally, HBO, the studio who owns the rights to the book, hasenlisted the aid of Damon Lindelof, the writer most famous for handling that exact scenario perfectly, with the airtight, logically sound, and in no way heart-breakingly convoluted Lost....more
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