New Burial

So I missed out on the vinyl of this. But the digital's now available via emusic and elsewhere, and it's awesome. Burial moves his signature sound forward without simply repeating himself, expanding it without losing the empty, spooky quality that made his music stick.

Ardennes Sweep!

It's been an amazing couple weeks for Philippe Gilbert. The Belgian has become a dominant force in the spring classics and has pulled off victories in all 3 of the Ardennes races: Flèche Wallonne, Amstel Gold, and now the crowning jewel of Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Yep, that's both Schlecks following him to the line.

Roll on over to VeloNews for the story.

Sunday

Started the day with a great ride over the Fat Tire Traverse.


Then got fancied up and took the boy to his first Easter church. He cleans up nice. And he wasn't as grumpy about it as he looks.


Then we ate a wonderful traditional ham dinner at Jan's, got too full, and laid around in the grass on sleeping bags.

Egyptian Friday: A Rising Tide, local music for KRBX

Launch week continues! Friday night, RadioBoise along with Idaho Live and the Egyptian Theater present a really pretty great night of local music.

- Bill Coffey

-AKA Belle

- New Transit

- Low Fi

- Steve Fulton Music

- Sherpa

- Finn RIggins

- Ship Shape

- Audio Moonshine

- Matt Hopper

- Thomas Paul

- Randy Meenach

See? Awesome stuff. Mostly a celebration, partly a fundraiser, TOTALLY a good time. Come down early and stop by the KRBX table and say hi.

Trundle on over to www.radioboise.org and check out our new website.

RadioBoise Broadcast Launch Today!

Today between 12:30 and 2, KRBX RadioBoise will go live from our spankin' new downtown studio on 89.9 FM! Tune in and hear a taste of shows to come.


We've also launched our new website!



Check it out at http://www.radioboise.org/. And check back here later for info on our huge shindig of a local music celebration tomorrow (Friday, 4/22) at the Egyptian Theater. It's gonna be a blast.

KRBX Air Check Cocktail Party Tonight

Come join us at the Red Feather tonight, won't you? Should be some tickets left.

Sawtooth Ski Vid

Untitled from J Betts on Vimeo.

Here's a little sample for you. I'm that only slightly awkward looking 3rd guy to go. Wide stance = stable!!!

Kickstart RadioBoise!

Watch this video, get inspired, and help us out. Go to www.radioboise.org for more info.

Thom Yorke + Burial + Four Tet = Mirror

Oh man, this is good. It's a hijack, but have a listen. This and the one from the last post are I believe vinyl only so I will be seeking this out when it drops next week.

Four Tet + Burial = Moth/Wolf Cub

Anyone got a copy of this? Haven't found one for less than $80. Want it.

Sawtooths In Brief

Made it back safe and sound from last week's backcountry ski trip in the Sawtooth Mountains. We had great snow, very decent weather, fantastic food, and a great group.


I'll post some more pics here and a link to the photo album, in case you're interested. Should have some video soon, too. Great trip, nice to be back home with the wife and boy.

Gone Skiing

Monday morning 6 of us will drive to Stanley for the start of a long anticipated backcountry ski trip. We'll ski in to the Williams Peak yurt on Monday and ski out on Thursday. Can't even tell you how much I'm looking forward to this.

See you in a week.

Photo: Aerial view of Thompson (left) and Williams (right). Yurt is located at bottom of photo just right of the open area in center.

Photographer: Kirk Anderson, from http://www.sawtoothguides.com/winter_pages/williams.html.

First passport pics!

James Blake

James Blake - The Wilhelm Scream from Alexander Brown on Vimeo.

Sit with this for a while.

One of these days I'll write something here about James Blake, both the EPs he put out last year and his debut s/t full length, out just this year.

But for now, listen and think about it. It yields rewards.

"Cairo has moved to Madison"

Krugman's got a great op-ed piece today on the importance of unions.

On paper, we’re a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we’re more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.

Given this reality, it’s important to have institutions that can act as counterweights to the power of big money. And unions are among the most important of these institutions.

It's easy to forget why unions are relevant and necessary. But they are, and the efforts to render them powerless in Wisconsin are cynical and devious and would be a harsh blow to the working man.

You don’t have to love unions, you don’t have to believe that their policy positions are always right, to recognize that they’re among the few influential players in our political system representing the interests of middle- and working-class Americans, as opposed to the wealthy. Indeed, if America has become more oligarchic and less democratic over the last 30 years — which it has — that’s to an important extent due to the decline of private-sector unions.

Before the people of Wisconsin let their governor pull this off, they should know that it's not just about budget crunches and concessions for austerity. That's what it's not about.

Hiking with Theo

Cathy, Theo and I spent a long weekend in Ketchum. No skiing or fishing this time, but we did go for a few really lovely hikes, and I got one pretty long snowshoe trudge in, too.

No new snow up there, but Baldy still had good coverage and there were actually a bunch of people there skiing.




The highlight of the weekend (besides Valentine's dinner at Globus, which Theo slept through) had to be how T would probe the cold air with his tongue, poking it out every time we set off oustide. Hilarious.

Bicycle Rights!

Haven't seen Portlandia yet, but I must.

Swimmie

Guess who's first swimming lesson is today?

Swinginging

I think it's safe to say that T likes the swing.

Geotic

Geotic is the mostly ambient side project of Will Wiesenfeld, who also makes music as Baths. Where Baths is playful and pop-structured electronic music, Geotic is calm and introspective, more about slow shifts and moods than beats and hooks.

Wiesenfeld makes the whole of the Geotic catalog available for free, too, Check out the offerings at www.angelfire.com/indie/postfoetus/geotic.html. So far Mend and Hearth are really grabbing me, and I'm spending a lot of my work hours with this playing softly.

You'll notice the Donate button toward the top of his page. I got hooked and have gone back for more and more, so I dropped a few bucks in the jar. Well worth it.