Butch Walker

Can’t get enough Butch Walker? From today’s 34th Street‘s  feature on the reborn songwriter, here is a continuation of the interview, along with a review of his latest album, Sycamore Meadows.

Street: So, obviously, Sycamore Meadows contains a lot of songs about the fires that took your house last year…
Butch: It was a pretty great place and I had a lot of great memories in the year that I lived there. I feel like, obviously, I’m cleansed from it now and all the things that we lost and I appreciate the memories that we still have. We didn’t lose those. It helped me to come up with a lot of what I felt to be some of my best songs yet.

Street: So what are you listening to now?
Butch: I wasn’t listening to anything. When I did this record and leading up to doing it, before the fire and everything, I was really bored of music. I was burnt out on it because I just didn’t feel like I had anything in me any more. I’d burned out listening to it and doing it all the time. To me, it’s about playing in front of an audience, and if I don’t have an audience to play in front of and connect with and do the show, then that part of it is just not fun and it’s annoying. Read the rest of this entry »

Join internet meme-ologist Johann Diedrick as he summarizes the 2008 elections using simple, LOLcat-esque imagery.

OBAMA: THE MEME

Obama, our supreme overlord. Amiright? Can we just say Barack Obama is having the best week ever? Yes we can.

You didn’t need to spend much time online the past few months to know this would be an election of historical importance. Some were confident from the start:
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DJ Spooky

From his laptop in Stockholm, Sweden, writer/composer/multimedia artist DJ Spooky (real name: Paul Miller) took some time to answer our questions about his performance at the ICA tonight. After the jump, he delves into his newly published book Sound Unbound while exploring the idea of the “collage” in the context of new media, the evolution of the DJ, and his role at the forefront of today’s contemporary art world.

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