1900: Boston’s Symphony Hall, an acoustical marvel in its day and still regarded as one of the world’s great concert halls, opens with an inaugural concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Unlike most American concert halls, which tend to favor a wider, fan-shaped configuration, Symphony Hall was built along European lines — deep, narrow and high. [...]
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Oct. 15, 1900: Boston Embraces the Sound of Music
October 15th, 2010 |
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A new species of human: The old man of the mountain
March 25th, 2010 |
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The fossil record reveals both a hitherto unsuspected mountain-dwelling hominid and, in this article, how the dinosaurs began
MYTH and fantasy populate the world with “othermen”—the elves, goblins, dwarfs and giants that live in the wild wood, in the cave or on the high mountain peak. Not animal, but not quite human either, they feed fear and imagination in equal quantity. Nor are such creatures merely the province of the past and the poetaster. The story of the yeti—the abominable snowman that haunts the Himalaya—has provoked serious investigation by explorers hoping to find not-quite-human humans. Sadly, there is nothing there. But not so long ago there might have been. For a bunch of explorers of a different sort, using DNA sequences instead of hiking boots, have discovered a real otherman from the mountains of Asia.
Svante Paabo, of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, was the inspiration for Michael Crichton’s novel “Jurassic Park”. His group extracts and sequences genetic material from fossils, and has produced DNA analyses of both mammoths and Neanderthal man. Their latest object of study is a finger bone found in a cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia (pictured above). The team Dr Paabo assembled to look at this bone, led by Johannes Krause, assumed it was either from an early modern human or a Neanderthal, both of whom once lived in the area. What they found shocked them. It was neither. …
Beach House U.S. Tour
January 13th, 2010 |
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BEACH HOUSE ANNOUNCE U.S. TOUR DATES
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After an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (January 22), a Sundance drop in, a New York record release show, and a quick spin around Europe, Baltimore’s Beach House will tour the U.S. in support of their third LP (first on Sub Pop) Teen Dream, out January 26.
You can download the track “Norway” from Teen Dream here.
Beach House Tour Dates
01/24/10 Sun Sundance Film Festival Park City, UT
01/26/10 Tue The Bell House Brooklyn, NY
02/10/10 Wed King Tuts Glasgow, GB
02/11/10 Thu Islington Mill Salford, GB
02/12/10 Fri Brudenell Social Club Leeds, GB
02/13/10 Sat Whelans Dublin, IR
02/14/10 Sun Speakeasy Bar Belfast, GB
02/16/10 Tue Cardiff Arts Centre Cardiff, GB
02/17/10 Wed Bush Hall London, GB
02/18/10 Thu La Route Du Rock Saint Malo, FRA
02/20/10 Sat La Maroquinerie Paris, FRA
02/21/10 Sun Vooruit Ghent, BEL
02/22/10 Mon Le Botanique Brussels, BEL
02/23/10 Tue The Paradiso Amsterdam, NL
02/24/10 Wed Vera Groningen, NL
02/25/10 Thu Rotor Salon Berlin, GER
02/26/10 Fri Loppen Copenhagen, DK
02/27/10 Sat Debaser Stockholm, SE
02/28/10 Sun Parkteatret Oslo, NO
03/02/10 Tue Pusterviksbaren Gothenburg, SE
03/03/10 Wed Molotov Hamburg, GER
03/04/10 Thu UT Connewitz Leipzig, GER
03/05/10 Fri Feierwerk Munich, GER
03/06/10 Sat Abart Zurich, SWI
03/08/10 Mon The Sage Gateshead, GB
03/09/10 Tue Queens Hall Edinburgh, GB
03/11/10 Thu Corn Exchange Brighton, GB
03/12/10 Fri Warwick Arts Centre Coventry, GB
03/13/10 Sat Roundhouse London, GB
03/14/10 Sun Roundhouse London, GB
03/17/10 Wed Lux Fragil Lisbon, POR
03/18/10 Thu Centro Cultural Vila Flor Guimarães, POR
03/26/10 Fri Black Cat Washington, DC
03/27/10 Sat Wesleyan University Middletown, CT
03/28/10 Sun Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
03/29/10 Mon La Sala Rossa Montreal, QC
03/30/10 Tue The Opera House Toronto, ON
04/01/10 Thu The Pike Room Pontiac, MI
04/02/10 Fri Metro Chicago, IL
04/03/10 Sat Pabst Theater Milwaukee, WI
04/04/10 Sun Cedar Cultural Center Minneapolis, MN
04/05/10 Mon The Waiting Room Omaha, NE
04/06/10 Tue Jackpot Music Hall Lawrence, KS
04/07/10 Wed Bluebird Theater Denver, CO
04/09/10 Fri Neurolux Boise, ID
04/10/10 Sat Doug Fir Portland, OR
04/11/10 Sun Rickshaw Theatre Vancouver, BC
04/12/10 Mon Neumos Seattle, WA
04/14/10 Wed Bimbo’s 365 Club San Francisco, CA
04/15/10 Thu Downtown Brewing Co San Luis Obispo, CA
04/19/10 Mon Rhythm Room Phoenix, AZ
04/21/10 Wed Granada Theater Dallas, TX
04/22/10 Thu Emo’s Alternative Lounge Austin, TX
04/23/10 Fri Walter’s On Washington Houston, TX
04/24/10 Sat Spanish Moon Baton Rouge, LA
04/25/10 Sun The Engine Room Tallahassee, FL
04/27/10 Tue BottleTree Birmingham, AL
04/28/10 Wed The Mercy Lounge Nashville, TN
04/29/10 Thu The Earl Atlanta, GA
04/30/10 Fri Grey Eagle Asheville, NC
05/01/10 Sat Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC
05/06/10 Thu Webster Hall New York, NY
05/07/10 Fri First Unitarian Church Philadelphia, PA
05/08/10 Sat 2640 Space Baltimore, MD
Nov. 17, 1790: A Rather One-Sided Affair
November 17th, 2009 |
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1790: Mathematician, astronomer and physicist August Ferdinand Möbius is born in Schulpforta, Saxony (in modern-day Germany).
Möbius has name recognition today because of the Möbius strip, which is a clever topological surface with only one side and only one edge.
Speaking of name recognition, Möbius probably pronounced the name something like MER-bee-oos (first syllable rhymes with [...]
Porcupine Tree: Incident
July 28th, 2009 |
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Porcupine Tree Unravel New Album The Incident Due September 22
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Inspired by a flashing road sign that reduced a horrible traffic accident to the antiseptic phrase “POLICE-INCIDENT,” British prog act Porcupine Tree‘s front man Steven Wilson composed the 55 minute, 14-track song cycle as a reflection on other “incidents” reported in the media and news.
The different topics include – the evacuation of teenage girls from a religious cult in Texas, a family terrorizing its neighbors, a body found floating in a river by some people on a fishing trip, and more. Each song is written in the first person and tries to humanize the detached media reportage.
Personal incidents that profoundly affected Wilson, have also been included on the new album include a lost childhood friendship, a seance, his first love, and the day that he decided to give up secure employment to follow his dream of making music.
The new album is in typical Porcupine Tree fashion and as presumed the band ranges effortlessly between art-rock and acoustic psychedelica, prog, and metal. Listen to an album preview medley at the band’s MySpace page.
The Incident will also come with a second CD of four songs that developed from band’s writing sessions last year but which are conceptually independent from the set of songs on the first disc. It will also be released as a 5.1 surround mix and as a limited special edition that comes with two books of artwork related to the album encased in a slipcase.
Tour Dates:
09/15/09 Tue Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
09/16/09 Wed Roseland Theater Portland, OR
09/18/09 Fri The Warfield San Francisco, CA
09/19/09 Sat Club Nokia Los Angeles, CA
09/21/09 Mon House Of Blues Cleveland, OH
09/22/09 Tue The Vic Theatre Chicago, IL
09/24/09 Thu Terminal 5 New York, NY
09/26/09 Sat Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA
09/27/09 Sun House of Blues Boston, MA
09/29/09 Tue Metropolis Montreal, QC
09/30/09 Wed Queen Elizabeth Theatre Toronto, ON
10/08/09 Thu Leeds Academy Leeds, GB
10/09/09 Fri Hammersmith Apollo London, GB
10/10/09 Sat Colston Hall Bristol, GB
10/12/09 Mon Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, NL
10/13/09 Tue Olympia Paris, FRA
10/14/09 Wed Ancienne Belgique Brussels, BEL
10/15/09 Thu Capitol Hannover, GER
10/17/09 Sat Aladin Bremen, GER
10/18/09 Sun Vega Copenhagen, DK
10/19/09 Mon Stockholm Globe Arena Stockholm, SE
10/21/09 Wed Ice Hall Helsinki, FI
10/23/09 Fri Sentrum Scene Oslo, NO
10/24/09 Sat Mejeriet Lund, SE
10/25/09 Sun Docks Hamburg, GER
10/26/09 Mon Huxley’s Berlin, GER
10/29/09 Thu Haus Auensee Leipzig, GER
10/30/09 Fri Lowensaal Nuremburg, GER
10/31/09 Sat Gasometer Vienna, AUS
11/01/09 Sun Petofi Hall Budapest, HU
11/04/09 Wed Alcatraz Milan, IT
11/06/09 Fri Estragon Bologna, IT
11/21/09 Sat Sa Bandeira Porto, POR
11/22/09 Sun La Riviera Madrid, ES
11/28/09 Sat Tonhalle Munich, GER
12/06/09 Sun Wulfrun Hall Wolverhampton, GB
12/10/09 Thu Manchester Academy Manchester, GB
12/11/09 Fri ABC Glasgow, GB