If Paxahau has finally done something to address the truly awful
acoustics of the underground stage then I'll be impressed, but I don't
have high hopes that that space will sound any less horrendous than it
has every time I've gone down there.
The fact that Detroit techno has always been
Agreed - stating that underground music, as a meaning of outside of
the mainstream and fulfilling an alternative vernacular, does not mean
it has to be relegated to a stage underground I.e in a nasty
basement with kids on drugs rubbing their sweaty nasty on you (as
opposed to the good on
The sound down there will always suck. There's a reason that the
great concert halls of the world are not reinforced concrete boxes.
And it smells bad down there too.
What it would take to fix the space would be several tens of thousands
of dollars of acoustic treatment. And it would still be an
Hello all,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8wMTyzpQsk
It's the month of Mayhem at KFJC, and special features preempt the usual
show. This week the usual Wild Kingdom shot has been displaced by an
18-hour celebration of black metal that started at noon today, and will
continue until 6AM tomorrow morning. I'll be doing a Jazz feature on
the early
