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‘This Is Happening’ is more than fun dance music
The tag on LCD Soundsystem is that it is fun dance music but better, because it is a full band comprised of an insightful fanboy from New York (James Murphy) and his cool friends. Murphy figured it out, so to speak. He micro-edited, commented on, cross-sectioned all of his favorite styles and [...]
Google’s ethics face trials with Chinese business
Google’s motto is, “Don’t Be Evil.” In a New York Times interview with the company’s head of operations in China, Kai-Fu Lee championed the easy access to information that Google provides as a panacea for China’s struggling rural class. The sheer scale of these utopian ethics is [...]
Black Lips lives up to reputation at Firebird
Rock ‘n’ roll band Black Lips, which formed in 2000, has achieved a divisive and legendary reputation for the most beer-drenched, rowdiest party tendencies. Some consider it a security blanket hiding a talentless freak-show while others cling to it as goofball fun. Regardless, the Black [...]
St. Louis Public Radio breaks revenue record
The St. Louis Public Radio (90.7 KWMU) spring membership drive raised $437,000 from upwards of 3500 pledges, both record numbers. The station recently underwent a change in its fundraising model, decreasing its on-air drives from three-per-year to two-per-year, and yet combined with the fall 2009 [...]
UMSL hosts Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival
The Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival celebrated its 7th annual incarnation this weekend, April 15-17, at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Organized and produced by University of Missouri-St. Louis and specifically by the Jazz Studies department, the festival treats jazz aficionados and [...]
