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What The DJ Wants

May 16, 2006 – 11:22 pm

Amoeba co-worker, spinner of wax and all-around cool guy, DJ Ned Learner is throwing down the vinyl at Carbon tomorrow night. It’s not just your usual, “Are you coming to my club?” night, either. Tomorrow marks the 52nd near-consecutive week he’s DJ’d the Wednesday night gig. What The DJ Wants. That means no requests. Just [...]

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Coachella Stats

May 1, 2006 – 2:04 am

Time departed: Saturday 10 AM
Time returned: Monday 2:30 AM
Hours slept during that time: 5
No. bands seen: 11 (Lyrics Born, Common, Sigur Ros, Franz Ferdinand, Tosca, Giant Drag, Gabriel & Dresden, Phoenix, Bloc Party, Digable Planets & Massive Attack)
Calories consumed: about 900 (I didn’t eat much)
Calories burned: about four billion
Temperature Saturday: 94 degrees
Temperture Sunday: I think [...]

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Coachella Schedule

April 28, 2006 – 7:35 am

That surge in Internet use across Southern California today may have something to do with the release (finally) of the Coachella Schedule. As expected, we’re going to have to make some tough choices (Digable Planets or Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Bloc Party or Sleater Kinney or Paul Oakenfold? Kanye West or My Morning Jacket?)
On an amusing [...]

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Maria Taylor Returns

April 21, 2006 – 8:49 pm

Ryan’s really good at recognizing faces. One night we’re working at Rocket Video when an actor who was in the “Hyena” episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer walks in. Immediately, Ryan calls him out and tells him that he’s a fan of his work. I don’t know that Ryan actually knows any of his other [...]

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Maria Taylor

April 21, 2006 – 12:18 am

It’s late. I just got in from seeing Maria Taylor and Parson Redheads and Norfolk & Western at The Echo. Much to tell about the night, but no energy to tell it at the moment. Maybe I’ll have a few spare minutes tomorrow. An interesting night, to be sure.

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Coachella 2006

April 18, 2006 – 11:36 am

Last year my friend Llyr says she has two tickets for Saturday at Coachella and do I want to go? I say sure. I’ll check it out. I hadn’t been and I figured, what the heck. It’s a new experience. Even up to the last minute I wasn’t all that excited. Chaos. Heat. Dust. Desert. [...]

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Laura Veirs at Spaceland

November 22, 2005 – 10:32 am

SFX: Ether Sings (mp3)

Way back in July, Craig over at Songs: Illinois posts a thing about Laura Veirs. I had heard the name before but never got around to checking out her music. Since then Ms. Veirs has rocketed to the upper stratosphere of my musical planet. So much so, that a couple months ago [...]

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Let It Die

November 9, 2005 – 12:29 am

Leslie Feist drops by Amoeba to play a few tunes before heading off to The Ford Theater to play with Broken Social Scene. It’s the first time since I’ve been working at Amoeba that I actually stand in the audience at an in-store and snap pictures and bob my head and, you know, stage dive [...]

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Cell Phones Are The New Lighters

September 25, 2005 – 11:27 pm

I slip out of work tonight a bit early and make my way up to the Hollywood Bowl with Llyr to catch Dead Can Dance. We sit down, eat sandwiches, open a bottle of wine and chat through Nouvelle Vague’s breathy, undulating performance. There are three people behind us. One comes from Denver, one from [...]

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Rob Dickinson at Hotel Cafe

July 12, 2005 – 10:37 am

I’m going to be missing the Rob Dickinson show at Hotel Cafe tonight.
I’ll be stuck working just down the street. But that’s not gonna stop me
from posting about it over at LAist.

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