Breaking news! Mudd Up radio, my weekly radio show on WFMU 91.1 fm NYC, is moving from Wednesday nights to Mondays. Tonight is the last Wednesday show. We’ll return early next week, Monday June 22nd, when WFMU’s summer schedule kicks in. The time, 7-8pm, remains the same. I’ll be after Douglass Rushkoff’s show, and Vicki … Continue reading RADIO TONITE
[“Happy Cinco de Mayo” from Tray] Head to La Congona for my Cinco de Mayo special, 6 cumbias 4 May 5th! + On Wednesday, May 6th, 7-8PM EST, Raquel Z. Rivera and Wayne & Wax, co-editors of the new ‘Reggaeton’ book, will be joining me live in studio for Mudd Up! radio (WFMU 91.1 FM … Continue reading CINCO DE MAYO / REGGAETON RADIO
Postopolis will be streaming online as well (panoptipostopolismo!) It begins in two hours. Here’s a complete SCHEDULE of the week’s speakers Location of the event will take place at The Standard Downtown LA. The following lineup of speakers for Postopolis! LA was curated by the authors of the six host blogs. TUESDAY 31 05:00 : … Continue reading PRE POSTOPOLIS INFO
La Congona continues serving your cumbia needs (check my recent post on Tepito & the Superflex book), but MuddUp! wouldn’t be the same if i didn’t post up some jams here too. Here’s an excellent NYC sonidero track. It’s basically a big advertisement enhanced by ill synths and that stomping sampled beat. [audio:Formula5_LaCumbiaMaestra.mp3] Formula 5 … Continue reading NYC SONIDERA
NYC’s latin radio was killing it this weekend. I’ve got evidence (mostly culled from La Mega). Exhibit A starts off w/ ersatz Brazilian bassline then goes into a Max Romeo (Prodigy sample-source) edit which moves into a Mavado ‘So Special’ speedy house/baltimore remix thingy, and on. Heavy ‘buttbending’ mixology throughout. The Don Omar “Cuando yo … Continue reading BUENA ONDA NUEVA JORK
Postopolis: a city of (blog) posts, touching down, realtime. nearly two years ago, I participated in the first Postopolis event, held at Manhattan’s “uniquely awesome perforated space” Storefront for Art & Architecture, and hosted by a quartet of architecture/urbanism/design blogs BLDGBLG, Subtopia, City of Sound, and Inhabitat. Great concept and interdisciplinary execution. Now it’s time … Continue reading POSTOPOLIS: LOS ANGELES
EDIT: I just had a long, slightly surreal phone conversation with Charles Holgate, the original topic of this post. Charles requested that I take down this blog entry & associated comments and wait until the end of the month, by which time my core concerns should have been resolved. I’m happy to oblige and hope … Continue reading CHARLES HOLGATE AND THE PUBLICITY GAME
It’s time to get our Babel on: Mudd Up! will now be available (sometimes) in French!! You might have noticed the version française link on the last two posts… Please give a big ongoing merci to Vince. In addition to being a full-time super-hero, he is a great translator and our Parisian point-man (hold tight … Continue reading version française
a big shout out to the Mudd Up! commentors who recommended Stanislaw Lem — I finally found time to read him, and the title I’ve begun, A Perfect Vacuum (Amazon|Google Books), is incredible. It’s a collection of reviews of nonexistent books, erudite and extremely funny. (The best bookstore in Barcelona takes its name from one … Continue reading S.LEM
“You’re one of the most interesting people I know!” I tell her, again. But she doesn’t believe it. She started surveilling her neighbor – to see if his life is as boring as hers is. + + + Rise of the Singing Robots – David Decks on autotune. I Like Listening to Awesome Tapes from … Continue reading THE CONVERSATION