In 2009, a 45-minute MP3 of audio from Fugazi concerts cropped up on punk and indie-rock blogs. But it wasn’t a musical recording: Instead, James Burns, the fan behind the file, had cobbled together choice clips of outrageous stage banter. The collage not only affirmed the band’s reputation for hardline punk diatribes (“Would the gentleman in [...]
Too many X-Files episodes, that's what you should blame. All those conspiracy theories swirling around can't be good for your psyche. It probably started long before that—hippie revolutions, refusing to trust anyone over 30—but you've only gotten older and bought more locks for your door. You're terrified that everyone is out to get you; the [...]
Far Out vs. Hot Dang responds to the reality of April Fools' Day by declaring all news published today to be WORTHLESS, except for Far Out vs. Hot Dang itself, which has been assembled this week using cultural items from days prior to April 1, 2011. OUR INTEGRITY THUS CANNOT BE QUESTIONED. Come back next [...]
Yesterday, Radiohead attempted to pass out some papers in D.C. We know how that went. The day before, on Monday, members of the cartoonists collective D.C. Conspiracy were also distributing their new newspaper for free—in their case, at local Metrorail and MARC stations.
It wasn't all perfect, of course. Rafer Roberts, the editor of D.C. Conspiracy's paper, [...]
Which Way to the Idioteque?: We tried to warn you. Alex Baca analyzed the map, suspecting that Radiohead, "however well-intentioned, might have fallen prey to the totally confusing L'Enfant Plan." The British didn't always have this much trouble getting around town. While things went fine in other places—say, Times Square—the geniuses behind The Universal Sigh [...]
While my colleague Benjamin R. Freed observed confused Radiohead fans over in Brightwood—where a crowd showed up based on false information on Radiohead's website—The Universal Sigh's drop at Union Station seemed to be a success. A small, confused crowd gathered around 12:45 p.m., unsure where the tabliods might appear, but at 1 p.m. Radiohead's newsies appeared [...]
"I was expecting it to be at a record store," said Gage Muckleroy, an environmental engineer who drove down from Bowie, Md. to the sleepy corner of Brightwood at Jefferson and 7th Streets NW, hoping to grab a copy of The Universal Sigh, aka the Radiohead newspaper.
As Alex Baca predicted earlier today, while Radiohead knows [...]
At 1 p.m. today, editions of the much-heralded The Universal Sigh will hit the streets of Washington, D.C.
The thing is a newspaper, compiled by the dudes of Radiohead and distributed in tandem with the release of the physical copy of The King of Limbs, the band's latest full-length. Says its website: "To commemorate this momentous [...]
Radiohead, those masters of head-scratching decisions, released a "newspaper" today—though it won't be available in D.C. until tomorrow at 1 p.m. It's called The Universal Sigh, and it's a collection of odd images and abstract verse, intended to supplement the band's newest album, The King Of Limbs. The paper showed up today at various locations around [...]
Thursday, March 24
You could be forgiven if his nearly 20-year association with Jay Leno made you think Kevin Eubanks was a mediocre hack, too—forgiven, but you wouldn't be correct. Before he Jaywalked, guitarist Eubanks (the second of three musical brothers from Philadelphia) was a member of the M-Base Collective, the Brooklyn-based pool of musicians who [...]
