Describe (in detail) your best Halloween costume. I was a head on a platter in 3rd grade. I had a light-weight table that rested on my shoulders, and there was a hole in the middle that my head fit through. There was tablecloth to hide my body. Surrounding my head was a fake platter with […]
Headtronics (FreekBass)
What's your favorite candy (and why)? Addicted to the new pretzel M&M's. Chocolate and salt … very good combo. What's your favorite Halloween-related song? Does "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" count? Who would win in a fight: analog or digital? Analog will always last all 15 rounds … digital would be either a knockout […]
Javelin (Tom Van Buskirk)
What would you rather be: a zombie or a robot? Well, if you are a zombie, you are essentially a pile of organic mush being controlled by an alien virus or some such, and if you are a robot then you are a pile of circuits controlled by humans, or by other robots. Or maybe […]
Mountain Man (Amelia Meath)
What would you rather be: a zombie or a robot? Zombie. At least you got to be human at some point. Unless I was a robot with an emotions chip, like Data had. Who would win in a fight: Freddy Kruger, Mike Myers, a gremlin, the Blair Witch, Freddie Mercury, or you? Freddie Mercury always […]
Mute Math (Paul Meany)
Describe (in detail) your best Halloween costume. This year I'm thinking of getting the darkest spray tan I can get, gel my hair back, wear cut off Jnco shorts and go as the Situation on heroin. What's your favorite candy (and why)? Hot tamales, because they go brilliantly with coffee. Who's your favorite monster (and […]
RJD2
If you could ask Bob Moog one question, what would it be? As I understand it, in the early 60’s when he, Don Buchla, and others were developing electronic instruments, his decision to make them intended for a 12 tone musical interface seems pretty important in hindsight. I’d ask him to talk about the climate […]
Saturn Never Sleeps (King Britt)
What was your craziest/most memorable Halloween night? 2007 NYC. I had a gig at Cielo for Deep Space w/ Francois K. My hotel was three blocks away and it took me almost one hour to get to the club! Actually very scary! Who would win in a fight: Freddy Kruger, Mike Myers, a gremlin, the […]
The Octopus Project (Josh Lambert)
Describe (in detail) your best Halloween costume. This isn’t mine, but this year, Yvonne is going as the Rolling Stone cover of a nude John Lennon hugging Yoko Ono. She’s dressing up as Yoko and made a life-sized, stuffed, nude John Lennon, which she will be attaching to her waist. It is pretty nuts! What's […]
Shout Out Out Out Out (Nik Kozub)
Describe your best Halloween costume. Again, when I was a kid, I had some pretty awesome costumes, thanks to my wonderful parents. My Mom would get pretty elaborate with things like building me a fly costume with paper maché and huge metal mesh eyes and stuff. One year I went as a giant Diet Coke […]
Two Fresh (Sherwyn Nicholls)
If you could ask Bob Moog one question, what would it be? What’s his favorite Moog instrument? What is your favorite album (ever) that features a Moog instrument? Eliott Lipp: Tacoma Mockingbird Who would win in a fight: analog or digital? Analog, it’s like asking who’d win in a fight between Human and Robot. The […]
We Come in Beats
When Bob Moog presented his paper Voltage-Controlled Electronic Music Modules at the Audio Engineering Society conference in October 1964, it was the Big Bang of modern music. His ideas literally electrified synthesized analog sounds, exploding the sonic limitations of earlier formats like magnetic tape. The nascent planet of electronic music that formed from Moog’s discoveries […]
Moogfest inside info
• If you’re seeing a show at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, there’s not a bad seat in the house. However, seats on either side of the balcony can lead to a stiff neck from prolonged turning in one direction. Use intermission and any between-song banter to practice some neck stretches. • If you’re at the Orange Peel, […]
Moogfest logistics
Info from the official site: Is Moogfest 2010 an all-ages festival? Yes, patrons of all ages are welcome. Stella Blue is our only venue that is 18+ but all of our other venues are all ages. Tickets will be required for patrons of age 2 or older. If you do bring the little ones, we […]
Beyond an art-school joke
Lots of people remember Devo for their hit song “Whip It.” The song’s video was one of the first played on MTV, and helped catapult the band to stardom. What many people don’t know is the band was founded on some radical principles. The name "Devo" comes from the band’s concept of “de-evolution — the […]
Ears to the street and eyes to the sky
As half of hip-hop super-duo Outkast, Big Boi established himself as one the dopest emcees in history. Teaming up with childhood homey Andre 3000, the pair pioneered an eccentric Dirty South-meets-G-Funk style that earned them massive critical and commercial success throughout the '90s and early 2000s. But with the sometimes-overshadowing Andre taking a musical sabbatical […]
Stealing our ears
Thievery Corporation harvests diverse strains of music from around the world and rolls them into genre-defying down-tempo tunes that are sure to get Moogfest goers' heads nodding and hips swiveling. Made up of potent production duo Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, the self-described pioneers of "revolutionary outernational sounds" are coming to Asheville on the heels […]
Heart on a protective sleeve
"I don't know how interesting I find remixes," admits Felix Martin, who plays Jazzmutant Lemur, Elektron Machinedrum SPS MKII, Akai MPC2500 and Dave Smith PolyEvolver with British electro-pop band Hot Chip. Which is a funny thing to say, considering Hot Chip just released the EP We Have Remixes as well as an MPX4 app that […]
Back to the future
Derek Vincent Smith of Colorado-based Pretty Lights (the electro-dance group of Smith and, currently, drummer Adam Dietch) says some people assume he uses samples because he can't write music. In fact, "The reason I sample the way I do is because I'm trying to make music that is combination of the cutting-edge and new-electronic styles, […]
Trick or Treats
Sleigh Bells may have the highest power-to-personnel ratio out there. The Brooklyn-based duo of musician/songwriter Derek Miller and vocalist Alexis Krauss has been pummeling the sonic plane since 2008. Miller’s beats are massive circular saws; repeating guitar lines fly off like sparks. With equal ferocity and finesse, Krauss’ vocal melodies trickle over the teeth of […]
Celebrating Bob’s Spirit on a Hallowed Weekend
Bob Moog lived at the edge of sonic reality, constantly pushing sound barriers. He sought to provide musicians with a new musical vocabulary to communicate to their audiences. Although it seems to be paradoxical, this pioneering inventor settled deep in the hills outside of Asheville on a secluded piece of land. In 1978, after 14 […]
Chairman of the beard
The last few months were quite a whirlwind for bearded indie champs Band of Horses. Since hitting the road in March, the band's been in rock 'n' roll overdrive: selling out shows across the U.S. and Europe, sharing the stage with veterans like Pearl Jam and Widespread Panic, and watching their latest release — the […]