http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summaryWed, 16 Aug 2006 03:06:24 +0000http://www.scissorkick.comSteve15http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115565797762152581Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:05:00 +00002006-08-15T12:06:17.643-04:00I think it's time to move. Yes, I think I sort of hate blogger. And I'd like to move to another blogging software. Any ideas. Please let me know if you use something you are happy with.http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/08/blogger.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115496366292082776Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:16:00 +00002006-08-07T11:22:23.360-04:00Got back from DC and was happy to return to the Ratatat record sitting in the mailbox. Not only did the good people at XL send over the CD, they also sent over the first vinyl single from the record, "Wildcat," which includes a sick E*Vax remix on the A-side. What can be said about Ratatat that hasn't already been said? The record has a cheetah or cougar, some kind of big cat, on the front. Freshhttp://www.scissorkick.com/2006/08/ratatats-new-classics-lp.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115470791643715613Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:39:00 +00002006-08-04T14:26:59.740-04:00Back in college, about 10 years ago, I had the opportunity to jam with three other friends in a pretty amazing practice space in downtown Buffalo. Not far from a nice brew pub and within close proximity to our apartment, we found ourselves practicing on a fairly regular basis, refining a handfull of songs to near completion. We never really had a name (our friend Zander suggested "Gloves" which http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/08/gloves.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115455281037684853Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:49:00 +00002006-08-02T17:08:05.923-04:00Just receieved some advanced MP3s from the new Days EP from Hefty's Eliot Lipp. Two new nuggets of angular synthesizer instrumental hip-hop that can break the sweltering 100-degree heat. The first is a brand new track from his forthcoming digital-only EP called "Eye Sore" available for download at Beatport or in the iTunes store. So says the Hefty PR machine: "The EP consists of ten tracks, each http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/08/eliot-lipp-new-mp3s-from-digital-only_02.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115453147364614816Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:05:00 +00002006-08-02T11:11:13.760-04:00I will be DJing at the world premiere screening of the Psst! Pass it On... series of collaborative films next week -- Tuesday, August 8th, 7 to 11 PM at Kanvas. I had the opportunity to write about these shorts for RES and they will not dissapoint fans of short film, animation, motion graphics and the like. The basic principal is based loosely on the Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse. In other http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/08/psst-pass-it-on.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115340828855767214Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:38:00 +00002006-07-20T13:49:09.783-04:00Special post alert! Over-affectionate Nausea Warning! Stop reading now if you can't stand public displays of digital affection. Today marks exactly 5 years since I left work as per our usual half-day Fridays and headed to the N train back to Brooklyn. On the way home however, I bumped -- literally -- into a girl who was delivering compost to the Union Square Green Market at that same instant.http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/07/anniversary-post.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115228403636014070Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:29:00 +00002006-07-07T11:29:02.956-04:00Beautiful Friday in NYC so why not post a little post-Afrobeat to get the weekend rolling. Nomo are a transcultural ensemble (read: weed smokers with ethnomusicology degrees) who hail from Ann Arbor, Michigan and if likembe (finger piano), hand claps and scorching horns are your thing you should definitely check out New Tones, their second LP and first for Ubiquity. Produced by Warn Defever of http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/07/nomo.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115219964763699020Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:55:00 +00002006-07-06T11:27:27.670-04:00Of all the benefits that come with age, none seems to be more satisfying than the wisdom gained from the realization that perhaps you didn't know everything about the world at 21. For instance, if someone came up to me 10 years ago and told me that a band currently opening for Phil Lesh & Friends and jamming with Trey Anastasio of Phish would release one of my favorite records of the Summer, I'mhttp://www.scissorkick.com/2006/07/beneventorusso-duo.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/115159403847548923Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:02:00 +00002006-06-29T11:30:28.143-04:00Awesome new track from Germany's Couch. Solid instrumental post-rock that surprisingly is the type that will age beautifully. For a long time I thought that a lot of the mid- to late 90s post-rock slowly eroding my inner ear would be just a flash in the pan; music more memorable for the nostalgic quality it would have 20 years later. But after listening to the new Tortoise compendium and http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/06/couch.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/114974189232867470Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:24:00 +00002006-06-08T00:48:24.266-04:00Quick post today before I start a really long stretch of 5 days of wedding and work celebration.Two huge events are happening at the same time -- Pete and Tracy's wedding and the Webby Awards (which I help produce). So in the mean time, to keep spirits high and to prove that I'm still here and ready to upload the goods to all of you, I offer something from Matthew Herbert's tragically http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/06/matthew-herbert-scale_08.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/114849394982707915Wed, 24 May 2006 17:50:00 +00002006-05-24T14:07:46.916-04:00Don't you just love those moments of "how did I not know that existed" illumination? That's how I felt the first time I listened to this brand new promo CD for Deaf in the Family titled For Those About to Rock, an unreal collaboration from Brookyn production team The Resource (DJ Sae One and Adam Podrat aka Mr. Ling) and a host of underground MCs including Scavone, Bavu Blakes, Pumpkinhead and http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/05/deaf-in-family.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/114840465674827930Tue, 23 May 2006 17:06:00 +00002006-05-23T13:17:36.760-04:00After an absolutely astonishing 5-day bachelor party in 2 cities, it's time to take a serious relax and mellow out. Pete, Dave and Dan hit big on the Preakness which launched 18-plus hours of a flawless party. Words currently fail me. So, I come home Sunday welcomed by a stack of packages, each filled with some killer promo stuff, the most exciting of the lot a 9-song sampler from the upcoming http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/05/tortoise-unreleased-mike-watt-remix.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/114736619660527787Thu, 11 May 2006 15:43:00 +00002006-05-11T12:51:02.203-04:00Been a while since the last post. My apologies but big happenings on the horizon for SK, trying to move to a new blogging client (maybe moveable type, maybe something else) so I can change the template up. Summer project. In the meantime, a lot of new records have come via the postman and I have a string of posts coming up with some stellar tunes. Today's post is from Josh Abrams, longtime http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/05/reminder-aka-josh-abrams_11.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/114546341373892562Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:00:00 +00002006-04-19T14:47:35.026-04:00Have you ever been crushed by a huge wave? Humbled by the unimpeded force of nature? Face-first into the sand, waiting for the whitewater to subside while figuring out which way is up? That's how this blog can often make me feel -- humbled, frightened, wet all over. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that so many people read, download, post and basically give a shit at all. But you do. http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/04/new-sk-feature-rock-action.htmlStevehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/7039483/posts/summary/114488033364517880Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:58:00 +00002006-04-12T18:24:38.446-04:00If you haven't heard Magnificent City the brilliant collaboration with Aceyalone and rjd2, you need to immediately put down that Sudoku and get a copy. It's like traveling to Santorini, Greece or Hawaii: It's exactly how you imagine it to be. RJ's production takes up where his last LP left off and it's good to hear Acey, one of hip-hop's most underrated and openminded MCs, all but guarantee http://www.scissorkick.com/2006/04/rjd2-instrumentals_12.htmlSteve