Let it all out. (Taken with instagram)
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Photo of the Day: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (then Jon Leibowitz) as a young College of William & Mary student moshing at a Dead Kennedys show at Casablanca in Richmond, VA, c. 1982.
Photo by Irish Willis Peele.
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Photo of the Day: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (then Jon Leibowitz) as a young College of William & Mary student moshing at a Dead Kennedys show at Casablanca in Richmond, VA, c. 1982.
Photo by Irish Willis Peele.
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Best borough. (Taken with instagram)
"I’ve always said collaboration is my religion. I’d like to cultivate a consistent aesthetic with different artists and make inspiring records that we tour with, as well. Speaking generally, I see the merging of man and machine continuing. The technology is too appealing, and Pandora’s box is open. I think music is inescapably bionic from here on. Having musicians accept and adapt to this process more and more is a plus, but really, I don’t think it has ever mattered whether you play an instrument or not. If someone has a strong enough character musically, it will come across, no matter what tool they use. My belief is it’s not the means, it’s the intention."
Shouts to the L Magazine, Kara Zuaro and most importantly, Mile End for letting me put my spin on this. Pun certainly included.
This was a ton of fun and I could have kept the list going for what seems like forever. Music and food are easily my two favorite things in life, and the juncture of both is a magical and delicious place. Sites like Immaculate Infatuation (run by Atlantic & Warner PR/marketers) and the Epicurean Musician have been popping up in recent years, and now L has decided to jump into the fray with this fun service industry DJ feature - it’s an exciting and constantly evolving place to be.
Living and working in a place like Brooklyn has kept me and most other restaurant employees out of the mandatory playlist bubble of white tablecloth Manhattan mainstays, but there are downsides. As a musician, I’d like to see artists compensated for every play and every time a customer Shazams or Soundhounds their tunes during service. With revolutionary sites like Spotify snubbing the earnings of indie artists and the lack of brains it takes to type “myfavoritealbum.zip” into your browser, there has to be a middle ground in which bands earn a little dough. I hope to contribute to a more egalitarian earnings structure that arises in the wake of the eventual fall of major labels - I’m honestly just not sure how. Suggestions welcome. I’m confident that I’ll be playing music for a long time to come, though.
In any event, I’m glad to be participating in the spread of what I think qualifies as good music. And seriously, the food that the Mile End cooks crank out should be topping lists all over town. Those guys are creative geniuses, and I hope our tunes mirror what’s on the plate.
DJ. (Taken with Instagram at Mile End)
Doomtree.
Surgery. (Taken with instagram)
"You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness."
