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Month: July 2008

A Spring in Your Step!

July 31, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Last night I caught a great performance of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring for the Landmarks Festival at the Hatch Shell. Although the show was an abbreviated, symphony-only version of Stravinsky’s opera, it was still a wonderful opportunity to hear the music played by a full symphony (and one filled with the best high … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: DC, emo, Fall Out Boy, Hain's Point, hardcore, Hatch Shell, Igor Stravinsky, Landmarks Festival, music, Paris, Revolution Summer, Rites of Spring, The Rite of Spring, Velvet Underground, World War I

More Hips to Hop

July 30, 2008 / Leave a Comment

In a slightly tangential continuation on from the previous post, I’ve stumbled upon even more riveting recent hip-hop releases. Or, in the case of The Streets, soon-to-be-released…. Mike Skinner, aka The Streets, was a huge surprise coming out of the UK. Back in high school when I picked up the Streets’ first release, 2002’s Original … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Atmosphere, Critical Mass, Doomtree, Drumsticks, dubstep, emo, emo rap, Everything Is Borrowed, False Hopes, grime, hip-hop, iPod, Middle East, Mike Skinner, Minneapolis, Original Pirate Material, Rhymesayers, The Escapist, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, The Streets, UK, Warped Tour

Nothing About Vonnegut

July 30, 2008 / 1 Comment

Sometimes life feels like a Kurt Vonnegut book, the way seemingly random events and lineages come together in unknown ways. It also helps when you checking out a heaping helping of Vonnegut novels from the library and his particular method of story-telling seeps into your life. Let me explain: Having recently graduated and awaiting the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Chuck Brown, Dig Dug, downloading, emo, Entertainment Weekly, funk, go-go, hip-hop, Interscope, jazz, Kurt Vonnegut, Let Me Clear My Throat, Lil Wayne, Massachusetts, mix-tapes, MTV Music Video Awards, music, Pixar, punk, Rock the Bells, Rolling Stone, Seinfeld, soul, The Fader, The Feature Heavy Song, The Mixtape About Nothing, The Opening Title Sequence, The Roots, The Washington Post, W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E., Wale, Wall-e, XXL

Gas Prices Going Once, Twice, Again!

July 29, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Not a day goes by that a handful of articles on rising gas prices are written by our trusted news sources (usually in conjunction with stories on the economy). It’s just one tale in a long line of “worst evers” that are plaguing our current society. I can’t say from personal experience if this is … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Dartz!, DC, Dismemberment Plan, economy, emo, gasoline prices, Hot Club de Paris, London, music, St. Petersburg, The Sad History of the Village of Alnerique, This Is My Ship, UK

Check Out These (Water) Guns

July 28, 2008 / 1 Comment

Boston’s Banditos Misteriosos announced a brand new event: a Revolutionary Water Gun Battle. The battle will take place on August 16th, but you should be able to sign up later today. Banditos have caused quite a ruckus (in the purely good sense) in just under a year since forming. They’ve gotten a good chunk of … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: Apartheid, Banditos Misteriosos, Boston, community, Dance of Days, DC, Dischord, emo, flash mobs, Fugazi, hardcore, Improper Bostonian, Kuwait, pillow fights, Positive Force, punk, Punk Percussion Protests, Revolution Summer, scavenger hunt, silent dance parties, South African Embassy, War in Iraq, water gun battle

Life and Death (Metal)

July 25, 2008 / Leave a Comment

I finally caught The Dark Knight the other day and Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker certainly lived up to the hype. Other critiques aside, Ledger certainly burned up the screen and his version of the Joker was quite frightening. I’d read in a New York Times article earlier this year that The Dark Knight‘s … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: A Blaze In The North American Sky, A Clockwork Orange, Batman, black metal, Brandon Stosuy, church burnings, Columbine, cult, Dimmu Borgir, emo, Gaahl, Gorgoroth, Heath Ledger, Hellhammer, Hove music festival, Johnny Rotten, Malcolm McDowell, Marilyn Manson, music, New York Times, Norway, Norwegian black metal, Oslo, Peter Beste, Satanism, The Believer, The Dark Knight, The Joker, the Sex Pistols, True Norwegian Black Metal, Vice

What a Beardo

July 24, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Big news out of Belgrade this past Monday, where war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic was captured after years of “living in hiding.” Karadzic was thought to be hiding out in a cave, but had been living in disguise under the name Dragan Dabic. While Karadzic committed some hainus crimes, but I can’t help but be … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: beards, Belgrade, Calvin Johnson, Chris Carrabba, Clone High, Dashboard Confessional, DC, Dragan Dabic, emo, emocore, facial hair, hardcore, Lester Bangs, maturity, music, mustache, post-hardcore, punk, Radovan Karadzic, rock, Saddam Hussein, Sunny Day Real Estate, The Promise Ring

Weak Warp

July 23, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Warped Tour begins in Mansfield, Massachusetts in a number of hours, and sadly, I will not be in attendance. Warped really is a one-of-a-kind entity, and while the Lollapalooza’s that came before it may have dropped their aims to bring alternative music to the masses across the vastness of America (most recently, Ozzfest suffered the … [Read more…]

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Jimes and the New Garage

July 22, 2008 / Leave a Comment

There’s nothing quite like a musical discovery, and Jimes is not quite like anything else I’ve found in recent memory. Jimes is the kind of thing you inadvertently stumble upon and then mildly-obsess about for a handful of minutes. Jimes is absurd, endearing, and entertaining, simply by being. Jimes hails from Chevy Chase, an annexed … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Perfect Lines Tagged: America, Bethesda, Bob Dylan, Brooklyn, Calvin Johnson, Chevy Chase, community, DC, Dischord, dubstep, emo, grime, Harry and the Potters, Jimes, Juiceboxxx, K Records, laptops, mash-up, Mid-West, Milwaukee, music, New England, New Garage, New Jersey, New York, non-musician, Pittsburgh, punk, scene, Siren Music Festival, techno, wizard rock

Building the Playing

July 21, 2008 / Leave a Comment

Down in New York for the weekend, I decided to take a break from some ear-shattering concerts (short review: Deerhoof rocked Prospect Park, Parts & Labor absolutely killed it at Siren Music Festival) to check out David Byrne’s Playing the Building exhibit at the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan. The instillation is a wonderful little … [Read more…]

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