Four candles burned. The ambiance was so soft, one could almost hear them talking… The first candle said, “I am Peace!” “The world is full of anger and fighting. Nobody can keep me lit.” Then the flame of Peace went out completely. Then the second candle said, “I am Faith!” “I am no longer indispensable. … Continue reading FOUR CANDLES: a Mudd Up! Holiday Tale
welcome to Mudd Up v1.9! This probably doesn’t look good if you are using IE (in which case you should switch to Firefox). But maybe it doesn’t look good anywhere…So let me know if anything is weird with usability or RSS feeds or whatnot, and i’ll apply my caveman coding skills in attempts to fix/improve/destroy … Continue reading WELCOME TO THE NEW MUDD!
Radio is in my blood. After 5 years of hosting a show on WFMU, and some time off, I’m ready to return. If you enjoyed Mudd Up! then you’ll like what’s to come… This fall I’m starting a new podcast, and am looking for a New York City based production assistant. WANTED: a media producer/arts … Continue reading PODCAST ASSISTANT PRODUCER
I miss doing radio & would like to brainstorm ways to engage with it again. The medium has been in my blood ever since Boston-area college stations opened my ears back in middle school. 5 years of hosting a weekly program on WFMU were incredible–but a huge labor of love. WFMU DJs volunteer their time, … Continue reading RADIO RUPTURE FUTURE
Music is bringing me to Mexico City this weekend. I’ll have time to dig around some of the megacity’s great bookstores in addition to parrandeando. So, dear reader, can you recommend me some good books to check out? My Spanish-language contemporary fiction bookshelf has a lot of dudes in it — much as I love … Continue reading LIBROS ASADOS: Book Burning Society of the Americas
[from Anita Sullivan’s The Seventh Dragon] Earlier today I tweeted: “1 of my fav albums of 2013 was the flash drive @NarcoIris gave me, another was the Jai Paul leak/bootleg/thing. Legit releases r 4 amateurs” — aphorisms aside, let’s dive into some notable vibrations from 2013. Before discussing other people’s music (& some books), brief … Continue reading 2013: THE YEAR IN MUSIC, SLIGHTLY
This month’s Mudd Up Book Clubb selection is Patrik OuÅ™ednÃk’s Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, and we’re meeting next Sunday, September 16, to talk about it. Europeana is a brilliant, simple/sly/hypnotic little book, which of course isn’t simple at all, so few things are. Rather incredibly, the New York Public Library files … Continue reading BOOK CLUBB: Patrik OuÅ™ednÃk’s Europeana
I’m a fan of judging books by their covers. Check this one out: Awesome, right? Our August Mudd Up Book Clubb selection is Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber. The novel kicks off during Carnival on a Caribbean colonized planet, where the AIs speak patois, and expands from there. Folklore from Hopkinson’s native Caribbean meshes with a … Continue reading BOOK CLUBB: NALO HOPKINSON’S MIDNIGHT ROBBER
[old photo of Izenzaren’s lead singer, Igout Abdelhadi] This week’s radio show was a slowdown stretchout, July 4th, fading flags. It begins with Izenzaren’s Akal, a lovely brand-new banjo jam which I saw them perform just a few days earlier down in Agadir Morocco. We later ran into the lead singer Igout Abdelhadi very randomly, … Continue reading RADIO: TITANIC SINK
[Humphrey Davies] Next Wednesday, May 16th, award-winning translator Humphrey Davies (The Yacoubian Building, Naguib Mahfouz, Elias Khoury) will be the special guest on my weekly radio show. Davies is going to share some of his favorite sounds from Cairo and the Middle East — everything from spellbinding Quranic recitation to a surprisingly convincing defense of … Continue reading RADIO: HUMPHREY DAVIES & THE LOVEJOY BOOKENDS
