Back around Arkansas, I’d whined that all I asked for Colorado was a band that enunciated.

So of course, the Boston Phoenix’s pick is a house/rave mixer who deploys highly distorted vocal samples: Pictureplane (Soundcloud).

Meanwhile, you’re looking at that gorgeous yellow pepper, contemplating Colorado cuisine, and wondering: “Where are the Rocky Mountain oysters?” Even if I could find raw bovine testicles at the chi-chi-mart or the ultraluxe Kroger, I’d have to come up with an oven-baked version because I don’t deep-fry, and those low-fat modifications are never as good as the original. So I’m going to make a nice Denver omelet, following Macheesmo’s instructions. Read the rest of this entry »

Want to get sweaty?

Shortly after I wrote about seeing Incubus with Young the Giant, I received a charming email from the proprietor of Run Hundred, telling me that the Young the Giant song I’d featured (“My Body”) was on his monthly list of the top 10 workout songs (voting page is here), and would I like to see the rest of the list? Yes, I would.

It’s a nifty project, as songs are classified by beats per minute, in case you have a target tempo in mind. It also sucked me down the rabbit hole that is remixing. Ordinarily, I don’t follow dance/club music — the club scene out here runs heavily to astroturf mini-skirts with suggestively placed divots — so I hadn’t fully appreciated the multifarious remixes of Stockholm DJ Avicii, which we are about to explore. To give us energy for this adventure, we’ll need some granola. Ready… set… and one-and-two and one-and-two… Read the rest of this entry »

Day 3 of the World Cup Food Challenge proved challenging, as Algeria, Slovenia, Ghana, and Serbia all have traditional cuisines that call for long hours of soaking, boiling, stewing, pounding, and otherwise laboring in obscurity over root vegetables and beans.

To get our brain cells in the groove to face this challenge, let’s queue up DJ Umek (listen), the father of Slovenian house music. He’s touring Europe to promote his new release. Read the rest of this entry »