Benjamin Darvill, a.k.a.
Son of Dave, is a one-man band of sorts, combining harmonica, vocals, beat-boxing, a rattle and foot-stomping to create his own infectious form of blues. Darvill, a Canadian formerly with Crash Test Dummies, has released four albums to date as Son of Dave, his latest and best being 'Shake A Bone', recorded and mixed by Steve Albini in Chicago, the title track used briefly in an episode of Breaking Bad.
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posted by bwg
on Apr 14, 2011 -
3 comments
Explore the joy of
American Tribal Style (
1,
2,
3),
tribal fusion (
1,
2,
3),
industrial,
gothic (
1,
2,
3),
fantasy,
heavy metal,
punk raqs,
‘80s fusion,
hip hop,
new age,
feminist,
Star Trek, or
tough love belly dance.
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posted by velvet winter
on Jun 19, 2009 -
20 comments
"If the truth was really known about the origins of Jazz, it would certainly never be mentioned in polite society." The expression arose sometime during the later nineteenth century in the better brothels of New Orleans, which provided music and dancing as well as sex. Jazz has been around for more than a hundred years now. It is not the result of choosing a tune, but an ideal that is created first in the mind, and willed in the music, inspired by
A Passion for Jazz.
posted by netbros
on Aug 30, 2007 -
27 comments
Teen goes nuclear (but in a good way). Thiago's mom, Natalice Olson, initially was leery of the project, even though the only real danger from the fusion machine is the high voltage and small amount of X-rays emitted through a glass window in the vacuum chamber -- through which Olson videotapes the fusion in action.
posted by spock
on Nov 21, 2006 -
31 comments
The Lucifer Project. "This is a documentation and study of the feasibility of creating a sustainable fusion reaction from an initial fission reaction on Saturn caused by a significant quantity of Plutonium-238 being inserted deep into the atmosphere."
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posted by gsb
on Nov 21, 2005 -
33 comments
I know this has been on
everyone's mind, but I just read
this article today and was astounded at my lack of foresight.
Silly me, here I was worrying about global warming when what I need to be fretting about is the decrease in fuel's impact on the
structure of international banking! Will we run out of fossil fuel before
it's too late to
save the environment from pollution and greenhouse gasses? The
abiotic nuts think we've got plenty more.
Personally, I think we can kiss the marvel that is
suburbia goodbye and start contemplating the fact that the focus on the post-post industrial revolution will not be information, but rather
agriculture.
And since solar panels and windmills and the like are made of materials that are extracted, transported, and fashioned by using oil-powered machinery, my money's on the folks who're
stockpiling uranium for all those shiny new nuclear plants we're going to need.
So, do we have a plan?
You bet we do! Oh. Well, we'll just rely on the
advancement of technology to allow us to weasel out of it!
Me? I've actually always wanted a
horse.
posted by Specklet
on Apr 14, 2005 -
67 comments
A new fusion of cinema and cyberspace will be seen in Peter Greenaway's upcoming film "The Moab Story" (NYTimes article). Unlike other Hollywood websites, the film's site will deepen the story beyond imagination. Greenaway's "megalomaniacal" plan is to create "The Tulse Luper Suitcases" ("The Moab Story" is the first phase), which will "eventually include three to five films, a 16-part television series, a touring theater production, several books, DVD's and Web sites and an online computer game."
posted by jacknose
on May 19, 2003 -
13 comments
Take enough electricity to power 100 houses for two minutes and use it to generate enough elecrticity to power one 40-watt lightbulb for one ten-thousandth of a second. What do you have?
Nuclear Fusion.
posted by alms
on Apr 7, 2003 -
17 comments
Good Ol' Foreign Home Cookin': Mexicans, Italians and other foreigners are just as surprised with what passes for Mexican and Italian food in the U.S. as Indians are to encounter
chicken tikka
masala or vindaloos in the U.K. Americans and Brits visiting the countries whose cuisines they think they know and love must be similarly surprised. Well, purists be damned! Not only is "faux foreign" cuisine sometimes very tasty (less pretentious than "fusion" cooking, for instance), in some cases (e.g. Tex Mex) it can be a damn sight better than the supposed original. And let no one argue these confusions aren't fun... [
Apologies it the post looks funny and full of ampersands and the links don't work: my first no-right-clicking post on a mac...]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Dec 13, 2002 -
74 comments
The best guitarist you never heard in your life. Shawn Lane is an underground hero in guitar circles. Born 1963 in Memphis Tennesee, he joined Black Oak Arkansas at the age of 13 , beat Ted Nugent in a cutting contest, and made Billy Gibbons fall off his bar stool.
Shawn now plays with the
Jonas Hellborg Trio - Windows media clip
here. I admit that fusion and guitar heroics are not to everyone's liking. But, if you like this kind of thing, you must agree that this guy is the the real deal.
posted by crunchburger
on Sep 20, 2002 -
19 comments
