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US house music titan, Kerri Chandler, gets creative while mixing. He's been known to rock a laser harp for live production. On at least one occasion he appeared onstage alongside hologram vocalists. But when he mixed live on a reel-to-reel set-up, he was going back to the roots of house DJs, and paying tribute to his father (Resident Advisor) with an hour of soulful house. On the other hand, Latvian DJs got creative with reel-to-reel out of necessity in decades past, to bypass censorship of Western music (Smithsonian Magazine; x-ray records, previously). Behold, Mr. Tape at DMC in 1991.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:32 PM PST - 7 comments

Last September, funk group Vulfpeck [bandcamp, previously on the blue] became one of the (very) few bands to sell out Madison Square Garden without the support of manager or music label.

You can watch the whole concert here.
posted by mhoye at 7:10 PM PST - 9 comments

Wang Xiuying, writing in the London Review of Books, paints a picture of the last few months in Wuhan. [more inside]
posted by clawsoon at 4:33 PM PST - 4 comments

This article is going to travel in time through various mediums of storage as an exercise of diving into how we have stored data through history. By no means will this include every single storage medium ever manufactured, sold, or distributed. This article is meant to be fun and informative while not being encyclopedic. Let’s get started. 34,128 characters (5800 words) from Jessie Frazelle, aka @jessfraz.
posted by cgc373 at 12:01 PM PST - 29 comments

YOU GUYS. I just saw the most wild thing! A man started walking toward the Girl Scouts cookie stand in front of the grocery store and he yelled “my bitches are BACK” and this Girl Scout just yelled “no. Walk away.” AND HE DID - Twitter thread [more inside]
posted by Gorgik at 11:55 AM PST - 82 comments

Generate a handwashing infographic with the song lyrics of your choice, provided you choose lyrics available on Genius. Web tool created by William Gibson (no, not that one).
posted by Cash4Lead at 11:08 AM PST - 77 comments

Southern segregationists resented the Freedom Riders who came by bus to protest Jim Crow laws. So in 1962, they tricked black Southerners into migrating north and transformed families' lives forever.
posted by Etrigan at 10:11 AM PST - 8 comments

"Riz Ahmed has announced his debut solo LP The Long Goodbye. Produced by his former Swet Shop Boys collaborator Redinho, the album is due out March 6 via his own label Mongrel." -- Pitchfork [more inside]
posted by mce at 10:09 AM PST - 6 comments

Hangover Inc.: The Companies Getting You Over Last Night (Bloomberg): Once a hush-hush luxury for the quietly-pampered, banana bags outside the hospital are hitting the mainstream from New York and Las Vegas to London and Dubai. [...] Why suffer? If you believe it works -- and not everyone does -- hangovers these days may be only for those who can't pay up. The sessions cost several hundred dollars in most cases. They occupy a niche in what burgeoning providers prefer to cast as a trend toward "wellness" in an I.V. bag, rather than an unseemly hangover insta-cure. [more inside]
posted by not_the_water at 9:02 AM PST - 50 comments

Why the US sucks at building public transit
posted by backseatpilot at 8:56 AM PST - 29 comments

“ When the growth engine of industrialization sputters—due to the replication of technical capacities, international redundancy and fierce competition for markets—there has been no replacement for it as a source of rapid growth. Instead of workers reallocating from low-productivity jobs to high-productivity ones, the reverse of this process takes place, as workers pool increasingly in low-productivity jobs in the service sector. As countries have deindustrialized, they have also seen a massive build-up of financialized capital, chasing returns to the ownership of relatively liquid assets, rather than investment in new fixed capital. In spite of the high degree of overcapacity in industry, there is nowhere more profitable in the real economy for capital to invest itself. ” AARON BENANAV- Automation And The Future Of Work Part 2 ( New Left Review)
posted by The Whelk at 8:30 AM PST - 9 comments

What do you get when you have 20 librarians in a room, furiously searching for answers? NYPL Title Quest 2018. “It all started back in 2012, with an innocent blog post: “I Remember It Had a Blue Cover and... Finding Books by Their Plot Lines”” (updated version of this post). Title Quest 2019: Finding Forgotten Titles Together. Caveat for researchers: “[A]t least one detail someone is certain about is not right.”
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:26 AM PST - 11 comments

Max von Sydow, brooding star of Ingmar Bergman’s torment-ridden dramas, dies at 90. He was Antonius Block, Father Merrin, the Three-Eyed Raven, Dr. Haehring, Vigo, and Ming the Merciless (among many others) in a career that spanned nearly 70 years. Max von Sydow died on March 8th at his home in France. [more inside]
posted by jzb at 6:47 AM PST - 87 comments

P!nk the fur missile border collie takes the title for the third time running at the 2020 WKC Masters (SLYT, previously)
posted by Harald74 at 12:56 AM PST - 24 comments