Posted on March 28, 2012 by Ed Ward
If any Berliners were wondering if the city was getting its tax euros' worth at SXSW, this is a photo of the Berlin stand at the trade show, where high technology, film, and music from Berlin all had their representation. There were a few people at the stand, mostly talking to each other, and a Continue Reading
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and was tagged with music, SXSW 2012, Bruce Springsteen, Woody Guthrie, making a living, Joe "King" Carrasco
Posted on March 21, 2012 by Ed Ward
I was wandering among the hectares of trade show at SXSW, astonished at its size and the amount of money all these companies had put into the effort of promoting themselves, when someone dressed in a costume of some sort (including their head, so I wasn't aware of their gender) handed me another piece of Continue Reading
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and was tagged with music, SXSWi, sharing apps, spyware, kids today, privacy
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Ed Ward
A long time ago, in a newsroom far away (as far away as Austin, Texas is from you right now, anyway), a newspaper columnist sat typing blurry green letters on a black screen when he felt a presence next to him. Turning, he saw Jimmie Vaughan, one of the best guitarists in a town loaded Continue Reading
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and was tagged with music, classical music, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Walkman, cassette, recorded music, listening, Vivaldi, Bach, popular music, audiences, folk music, musical performance, social utility of music, acidie, emotional content of music, popular music consensus
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Ed Ward
I used to have this nightmare that Steve Jobs showed up at my apartment in Berlin to thank me for my support of Apple (believe it or not, for a short while I was the go-to guy for English-speaking Berliners having problems with their Macs) and, as a token of his respect, gave me an Continue Reading
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and was tagged with music, jazz, iPad, iPod, iTunes, eMusic, Blue Note, headphones, acoustics, Rudy van Gelder, classical music
Posted on December 8, 2011 by ahoj666
Mario Mentrup, co-director of I DO ADORE, CITY OF LIGHT and THE EAGLE IS GONE, is a renaissance man of sorts. He acts in film, television and theater and is also a musician. In the 80s and 90s he fronted the Krautrock-noise band Knochen=Girl:
In 2004 he founded Pasadena Project, a frequent contributor to Mentrup's film Continue Reading
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and was tagged with music, city of light, i do adore, mario mentrup, the eagle is gone, pasadena project, electronica, knochen=girl, post-rock, we will see
Posted on November 26, 2011 by I_edit_2
My favorite radio station NPR offers a lot of great music for listeners (along with excellent news reporting and talk shows). The other morning NPR's 'Tiny Desk Concerts'grabbed my ear. It was a live performance of cellist Yo Yo Ma's newest adventure 'The Goat Radio Sessions'. The group's mandolinist, Chris Thile, explained that Continue Reading
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and was tagged with music, bluegrass, public radio, NPR
Posted on May 31, 2011 by MFW_Blog
On August 19, the restored version of famed British filmmaker Tony Palmer's 1972 Leonard Cohen tour doc Bird on a Wire will have its U.K. premiere at the Green Man Festival in southeastern Wales (with a DVD release to follow in September). Chris Mugan, a London journalist who writes about music for the Independent, took Continue Reading
This post was posted in Music Films, Documentary Films, MusicFilmWeb
and was tagged with leonard cohen, bird on a wire, music, tony palmer, musicfilmweb
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