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Entries tagged with: Owen Pallett
Rough Trade NYC on Record Store Day 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
As they usually are, Rough Trade Shops are one of the first this year to post their favorite albums of 2014 list. It's 100 albums long and mostly filled with the bigger indie and indie-related releases of the year, but there's a few surprises in there too. Mark Kozelek will not be happy to see that The War On Drugs placed #2, 8 higher than the Sun Kil Moon record. Mark should be proud that he made the list not once, but TWICE though. His Christmas album landed at #84. Run the Jewels, who are not on it all, have started a "Suck My Dick Rough Trade" chant. Check out their full list below and see more on each album here.
Meanwhile, Rough Trade the NYC venue is open this weekend with Sallie Ford / Crooked Fingers tonight, followed by two shows from The Dream Syndicate.
List below...
Owen Pallett at Fuji Rocks 2014 (more by Erina Uemura)
Chamber pop musician and violin wizard Owen Pallett released the great In Conflict earlier this year and he's now back with the video for its title track which was directed by Jason Last and premiered over at Nowness. Check it out below.
Owen also announced a new round of tour dates along with the release of the video, including a NYC show happening January 29 at Music Hall of Williamsburg. TIckets for that show go on sale Friday (11/7) at noon with an AmEx presale starting Wednesday (11/5) at noon. All dates are listed below.
In other news, Owen also spoke about the allegations against radio/TV host Jian Ghomeshi whose show Q Owen has appeared on, and who Owen calls a friend. He writes:
I was challenged by a friend to say something about the recent allegations against Jian Ghomeshi.The rest of his open letter can be read, with the list of dates and new video, below...
Jian is my friend. I have appeared twice on Q. But there is no grey area here. Three women have been beaten by Jian Ghomeshi.
I have sat with Jian over drinks and discussed our respective anxiety disorders. We have been photographed hugging on camera.
Just ten days ago, I helped him find musicians for his father's funeral. Three women have said that Jian beat them without their consent.
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Canadian folk singer Jennifer Castle released Pink City, the followup to her 2011 debut Castlemusic, this week (9/2) via No Quarter Records. You can stream it in full at CBC and listen to one track below. It's got string arrangements by Owen Pallett, and fans of late '60s/early '70s folk should take note.
Jennifer kicks off a tour this week which includes a few shows with M. Ward, and then hits NYC without him on September 11 at Mercury Lounge with The Sharp Things and Meredith Meyer (of Young Unknowns) and September 12 at Cameo with Noble Hunter. Tickets for the Merc and Cameo shows are on sale now.
All dates are listed, with that song stream, below...
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Swans/Michael Gira curating 3-day program in Netherlands; Savages & Bo Ningen collaborating +++ 24 NON-STOP HOURS OF DRONE
Swans @ Lincoln Hall (more by Brigid Gallagher)
From the Very Interesting Press Release Department:
Le Guess Who? Festival (The Netherlands) is extremely proud to announce two special projects for 2014: a 3-day program curated by Swans/Michael Gira, and the world premiere of 24-Hour Dronefest. Le Guess Who? 2014 takes place November 20-23 in Utrecht, NL. Previously announced acts include Dr. John & The Nite Trippers, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Selda feat. Boom Pam, St. Vincent and Einstürzende Neubauten.24 non stop hours of drone. We can't wait!!
Michael Gira, the main force behind the mighty Swans, will curate a three-day program for the project Mouth To Mouth. This is the second installment of Mouth To Mouth, and the first spanning multiple days and venues. The curated line-up includes Swans, legendary UK post-punk band Wire, New York psychedelic/electronic pioneers Silver Apples, Dominick Fernow's Prurient, Carla Bozulich (Evangelista), Xiu Xiu, Baby Dee, Jenny Hval and noise tyrant Ben Frost.
The Mouth To Mouth-project will also feature a special performance of the London based post-punk group Savages, together with Japanese avant-rock band Bo Ningen, entitled 'Words To The Blind'. Inspired by the surrealist, early DADA concept of simultaneous poetry, the group experiments with improvisation and noise. Le Guess Who? will be the first time this performance of all new material will be seen and heard outside of London.
This year, Le Guess Who? will host the world premiere of 24-Hour Drone Fest, initiated together with New York's Basilica Hudson. Beginning at midnight on Saturday, November 22, this project will cover the entire spectrum of drone during 24 non-stop hours of live performances and installations. First acts confirmed for this project are avant-gardistic producer/composer William Basinski (amongst others known for his four-part The Disintegration Loops), guitarist/producer/composer Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))), Tim Hecker, London-based duo Raime, and Steve Hauschildt (formerly of Emeralds). More acts for 24-Hour Dronefest will be added soon.
As the release says, the 24 hours of drone thing is a collaboration with New York's own Basilica Hudson where Swans and Tim Hecker are also playing as part of Basilica SoundScape in September. As previously mentioned, that NY fest will also play the Scott Walker / Sunn O))) album that comes out ten days later, every hour from 2-9 PM on Saturday of the fest at Future Past Studio, which is located near Basilica.
Catch Bo Ningen back in the USA when they tour with Kasabian this fall.
The Europe festival won't be the first time Bo Ningen and Savages have collaborated.
Unlike Savages, Swans appear on the recently released "Best Albums of the Decade So Far" list from Pitchfork.
The full line-up for Mouth To Mouth, curated by Swans/Michael Gira, is listed with more Netherlands fest info below.
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2014 Fuji Rocks Fest in pics (Arcade Fire, Outkast, Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, Damon Albarn, SBTRKT, Slowdive & more)
photos by Erina Uemura
Flaming Lips / Outcast / Arcade Fire @ Fuji Rocks 2014
The transition from indie darlings to stadium-rockers is rarely a painless one, although a decade on from the release of its debut album "Funeral," Arcade Fire proved that it has at least navigated that path better than most. The band's performance was mature and assured, although lacking the latent spark of aggression that had originally marked it as such an exciting prospect. Occasionally there was a flicker of the Win Butler and co. of old, such as the wonderfully anarchic and incongruous modular synth solo during "Reflektor." The group's renditions of "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" and "No Cars Go" were also particularly spirited, even if the latter's lyrics are perhaps a little bit too timely: "We know a place where no planes go."The Fuji Rock Festival has been happening has been happening the last weekend of July since 1997. Originally held at the Base of Japan's most famous mountain, since 2000 Fuji Rocks has happened at Naeba Ski Resort and the 2014 was last weekend (July 25 - 27), featuring Arcade Fire, Outkast, The Flaming Lips, Saint Vincent, Franz Ferdinand, White Lung, Slowdive, SBTRKT, Disclosure, The Waterboys, Yoko Ono and lots more over its three days. Pictures from all three days are in this post.
Conversely, it's hard to imagine The Flaming Lips ever changing their style for anyone. Wayne Coyne, as ever, looked delightfully shambolic, outfitted in a combination of tinfoil and an "Attack on Titan" cosplay bodysuit that he'd no doubt copped from Don Quijote the night before. Naturally, he was flanked by giant dancing mushrooms. The group wasted no time, jumping almost straight into fan favorite "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1″ while unleashing a shower of confetti, setting the tone for a relatively short but saccharine sweet love-in. - [Japan Times]
Outkast, Lorde, Temples are among the Fugi Rocks performers who are in Chicago's Grant Park this weekend for Lollapalooza. Lot more pictures from the 2014 Fuji Rocks Festival below...
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2014 Polaris Music Prize Short List revealed (Arcade Fire, Mac DeMarco, Drake, Owen Pallett, Tim Hecker, more)
The short list for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize, Canada's annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Arcade Fire, Drake, Mac DeMarco, Chromeo, Owen Pallett, Tim Hecker, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Timber Timbre, Tanya Tagaq, Shad, Jessy Lanza and Basia Bulat.
The winner will be announced at a gala on September 22. Who do you think it will be? Who should win? Last year it was Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Full list below...
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Avi Buffalo playing free NYC record release show at Rough Trade after West Coast tour with Owen Pallett (dates)
As mentioned, Avi Buffalo are back after a four-year absence and will release their new album, At Best Cuckold, via Sub Pop on September 9. If you haven't checked out lead track "So What" you can stream it below. Right around the album's release, Avi Buffalo will be opening for Owen Pallett for a run of West Coast shows. Right after that, they'll head to NYC to play a record release show at Rough Trade on September 20. That's a free Saturday matinee (1:30 PM), no wristband or album purchase required.
No other East Coast shows have been announced yet, but right after the NYC show Avi Buffalo cross the Atlantic for some European dates. All dates are listed, along with the song stream, below...
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Owen Pallett & Doldrums played 2 shows in NYC, covered Tori Amos & Joanna Newsom at Bowery (pics, setlist, video)
photos by Amanda Hatfield
"Also omg i forgot how much i love owen pallett fans. everyone here is lonely and/or gay. i am with my people" - @misandrist
Owen Pallett @ Bowery Ballroom 5/14/2014
Owen Pallett's tour with Doldrums hit NYC this week for two shows. Following Tuesday's at Glasslands (5/13), the played Bowery Ballroom last night (5/14). The Academy Award nominee played good portion of his new album, In Conflict, as well as selections from Heartland, and a few songs from his Final Fantasy days as well (the latter were mostly midset when he did a few solo songs). For his second encore he gave the crowd a couple covers: Tori Amos' "Pretty Good Year" (he reviewed her new album for The Talkhouse), and Joanna Newsom's "Peach Plum Pear." Pictures, setlist and video of "Peach Plum Pear" from Bowery Ballroom are in this post.
As mentioned, Airick Woodhead augmented the live line-up of Doldrums for this tour with his brother Daniel and Maddie Wilde of Moon King and were a solid start to the evening. You can catch Doldrums and Moon King -- on the same bill together for the first time ever -- at Baby's All Right on June 5. Tickets are on sale now.
Pics from Doldrums' Bowery set, plus more of Owen Pallett, below...
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an interview with Owen Pallet (on songwriting, music press, why he hates Beyonce & Rihanna... JUST KIDDING!)
This month will see the follow up to Owen Pallett's Heartland, the 2010 release that saw the artist formerly known as Final Fantasy forming a gorgeous and curiously unnerving collection of songs pairing lush orchestration against lyrical themes of mental isolation and self-doubt. For In Conflict (Domino/Secret City), Pallett's compositions are no less complex but now find the experimental composer giving focus to the benefit of dissonance and the abrasion of sound. For a songwriter whose music and exploration with sound already has the proclivity for expansion in the auditory space, Pallett is at his absolute best within those deliberately muted and subdued moments just before the eruption. Brooklyn Vegan reached out to Pallett to discuss the new record, his recent pop music commentaries, and his thoughts on music criticism in 2014. Owen Pallett is touring with Doldrums this month, two NYC shows included.
My first question just concerns your relationship with music and where you were when music first found you, Owen. When was that moment for you when you knew that creating music was something you absolutely had to do?
Owen: There's kind of two answers to that. My entire life, it's been me realizing over and over again that I'm much more comfortable working with musical material than I am with verbal information. [Laughs] I just feel much more at home in dealing with sound than with text or with speech, but I certainly from age three or whatever, I was jamming Bach and Pachelbel and in an obsessive way. But the sort of second moment was the real moment when there was the transition from being a music appreciator into being a professional musician, and that happened much later when I was twenty-four, I guess. That's when I was working for a radio program, and I had been offered these tours that I didn't want to do because I was committed to my job working for the radio, and I didn't want to take these tours, but they effectively, when they heard about it, told me to go do it. They were thinking with more clarity than I was about what was best for me, but also it was kind of a vote of confidence in what I was doing having my boss say, "No, take the time off work. You should really go do this tour."
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Owen Pallett's new album, In Conflict, will be out in May but you can hear a couple tracks -- both of which feature Brian Eno -- now. "The Riverbed" comes via a music video that stars Pallett's uncle, Jim, as a man out on a date in L.A. Look for Owen, briefly, as "Jerk #4." The NY Times also just premiered a lyric video for "On a Path" and both of those are watchable below.
Meanwhile, Pallett will be in Los Angeles this weekend for Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony where his and Will Butler's score for Spike Jonze's Her is up for an Oscar. Best of luck, guys. The Oscars air at 7 PM EST on ABC.
And if you want to see Pallett live, his May tour with Doldrums starts in NYC with two shows. Tickets to Glasslands (5/13) and Bowery Ballroom (5/14) are still available.
Videos below...
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Sarah Neufeld streaming new EP, playing The Kitchen w/ Colin Stetson this Friday; Nils Frahm adds 2nd NYC show (dates)
Arcade Fire violinist Sarah Neufeld (also of Bell Orchestre and The Luyas) just released a three-song EP, Black Ground, which doubles as bonus material for her 2013 LP, Hero Brother. The whole EP was co-produced by Nils Frahm and features arrangements from Owen Pallett on "Breathing Black Ground (Orchestral Version)." You can stream it in full below.
As mentioned, Sarah has a few solo shows coming up, including one in NYC this Friday (2/14) at The Kitchen. At Friday's show, she'll be joined by saxophonist Colin Stetson. Tickets are still available. Updated dates are listed below.
Colin Stetson next plays NYC without Sarah as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival on 3/22 at Merkin Concert Hall (tickets). In more related news, Owen Pallett's tour with Doldrums hits NYC this May, and Arcade Fire's tour hits NYC in August for three Barclays Center shows.
Meanwhile, speaking of Nils Frahm, his previously announced tour hits NYC on March 26 at Glasslands, and since we last spoke, he added a late show happening the same night. Both shows are with Douglas Dare, and you can get tickets to both. Updated dates are listed below.
Stream Sarah's new EP, with all lists of tour dates, below...
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Owen Pallett's new album is titled 'In Conflict,' features Brian Eno and will be out in May (watch an LP trailer)
As Owen Pallett said would happen, details on his new album were revealed today. The LP is titled In Conflict and will be out May 13. That's the cover art above. Brian Eno contributes guitar and synth, and it also features The Czech FILMharmonic Orchestra. You can learn a little more about the album via a preview video, which is watchable below.
Owen's spring tour brings him to NYC for two shows: Glasslands on May 13 and Bowery Ballroom on May 14. Tickets for Glasslands are on sale now and tickets for Bowery Ballroom are currently on AmEx presale with the general on-sale starting Friday (2/7) at noon.
In Conflict trailer below...
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Owen Pallett releasing new LP, touring w/ Doldrums (dates) ++ stream the 'Her' score he co-wrote w/ Arcade Fire
Owen Pallett is already having a pretty good year. The lovely score for Spike Jonze's Her, that he co-wrote with Arcade Fire's (who played Big Day Out Fest and were nominated for a Juno) Will Butler, is up for an Oscar. And today he tweeted, "new OP album and solo/band tour dates, announcing tomorrow." We may have to wait for the news on the album, but we know a few of the tour dates right now, which will happen in the Northeast in May.
Those dates include two in NYC: Glasslands on May 13 and Bowery Ballroom on May 14. Tickets for Glasslands go on sale Thursday (2/6) at 10 AM; tickets for Bowery Ballroom go on AmEx presale today (2/5) at noon with the general on-sale starting Friday (2/7) at noon. Most of the dates, including both NYC shows, are with Toronto's Doldrums. All dates are listed below.
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Jarvis Cocker, Four Tet, Max Tundra, YACHT, Rustie and more contribute to 'Everything is New' charity project (streams)
The goal of the Everything is New project is to empower the children of Light of Love Children's Home, many of whom have been rescued from bonded labour, child prostitution, homelessness and abject poverty. The project creates the opportunity for the children to 'star' in the cultural forms they themselves consider most meaningful - popular music and cinema.The Everything is New project has resulted in two albums, both of which are out January 20: Sun Choir, which was composed and recorded by Scottish art-pop band Marram with the kids of Southeast India's Light of Love Children's Home and features guest appearances from Jarvis Cocker, Owen Pallett, Irvine Welsh and more; and BOATS where artists such as Four Tet, Rustie, Dan Deacon, YACHT, Bear in Heaven, Deerhoof's Greg Saunier, Max Tundra, Gang Gang Dance and more took samples of the children and built songs around them.
Proceeds from the project go to the charity Scottish Love in Action which feeds, clothes, houses, educates and provides medical care for over 500 children through the Light of Love Home and School. You can stream Rustie, YACHT, Jarvis Cocker and Four Tet's tracks below.
There's also a 70-minute feature film that's included with physical copies of the Sun Choir album. You can watch a short and a not so short making of videos below...
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NPR Music posted their 50 Favorite Albums of 2013, and as usual it included a lot of classical, jazz, world music, but also many of the indie/pop/rap/metal that shows up on these lists like Bill Callahan, Blood Orange, Chance the Rapper, Deafheaven, Flaming Lips, Haim, James Blake, Kanye West, Laura Marling, Run the Jewels, Sky Ferreira, Waxahatchee and more. Their list is in alphabetical order, and you can browse the full thing below.
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Dawn Landes playing Doveman's next LPR show w/ Owen Pallett (& other dates); Yuka Honda remixed Hannah Cohen
DOWNLOAD: Hannah Cohen - "The Crying Game" (Yuka Honda Remix) (MP3)
Owen Pallett backstage w/ Grizzly Bear in Canada (via Ed Droste Instagram)
As mentioned, Doveman (aka Thomas Bartlett) is doing his next Burgundy Stain Session show at NYC's Le Poisson Rouge on October 12. Those residencies always come with a slew of guests, and he's revealed that this next one will feature Owen Pallett and Dawn Landes, who according to Doveman's tweet, will be performing "from her kickass French record." The tweet also says, "More performers announced, or maybe secret, soon." Tickets for that show are still available.
Dawn Landes has a few other NYC shows in October before the LPR show with Doveman. On October 2, she'll be doing a musical/visual collaboration with Danica Novgorodoff at the Folding Chair Reading Series at 61 Local (61 Bergen St). And from October 5-9 she'll be singing at Lincoln Center in Two Hearts, the new ballet by Benjamin Millepied (who also did the choreography for Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan). The ballets also feature music by composer Nico Muhly. Tickets for all five dates are on sale now.
In related news, Hannah Cohen, whose album, Child Bride, was produced by Thomas Bartlett, just got the track, "The Crying Game," from that album remixed by Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda (who Bartlett has also worked with). You can download that remix above or stream it below. Yuka also recently produced fellow Doveman-collaborator Martha Wainwright's new album, Come Home To Mama. Martha has upcoming shows as well.
A list of all dates and that song stream below...
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ALSO: Sifl & Olly are back, Smashmouth/Guy Fieri cookbook, Little Pete vs Lindsay Lohan, Patrick Carney, Neurosis & more
Real flyer on Grand Ave. 'HIPSTERS ONLY Please!' (via @adelaloconte)
Guy Fieri, Smashmouth frontman Steve Harwell and Sammy Hagar are teaming for what is likely to be the most exclamation-point-filled cookbook of all time. Also, maybe the worst.
Those of a certain age may have fond, fuzzy memories of MTV's sock puppet hosts Sifl & Olly. Well they're back! Reviewing video games? Sort of. Check out a video below.
Speaking of fond MTV memories, you can catch Kurt Loder in the flesh at at the Bell House in Brooklyn tonight (9/20) (with Julie Klausner who has other upcoming gigs too).
Bruce Springsteen plays again in NJ
tonight tomorrow. Meanwhile check out his setlist from last night.
Fiona Apple got busted for hash possession at the same Texas checkpoint that got Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson. She's out on bail, but tonight's ACL Live show is canceled (which means no pictures tonight on the BVAustin Instagram).
Speaking of Austin, Ume is funding a new record via Kickstarter.
Speaking of Kickstarter, Gawker discusses their accountability problem, Amanda Palmer included.
That said, we're sure Owen Pallett, like many others, was happy to hear that Amanda is now paying all musicians.
Meanwhile, if you're looking for backers for your Kickstarter, Forbes listed the 400 richest Americans, Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas included.
Speaking of money, Iggy Pop, Wayne Coyne, Ben Folds, Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney and more will appear as guests on Ke$ha's new album, Warrior.
Speaking of Patrick Carney, congrats to him and his now-wife Emily Ward on their recent wedding. Will Forte officiated. Shaun White was arrested.
The first track from Neurosis's new LP Honor Found in Decay has slipped out. Stream "At The Well" at NPR now.
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DOWNLOAD: Lower Dens - "Brains" (MP3)
The National have announced that they're headlining and curating at ATP in Minehead UK, which is happening from December 7-9, 2012. So far, in addition to The National, the lineup (not very surprisingly) includes Sharon Van Etten (who plays the sold out Mercury Lounge tonight), My Brightest Diamond, Wye Oak, Megafaun, The Antlers, Buke and Gase (FKA Buke and Gass), Lower Dens, Owen Pallett, Boris, Tim Hecker, Kronos Quartet, Suuns< and Dark Dark Dark. More artists TBA. Tickets go on sale Friday (1/20) at 2 PM.
Maybe this lineup will shed some light on the bands Aaron and Bryce Dessner will be choosing when they curate BAM in May.
ATP's NJ festival happens in September and is being curated by Greg Dulli.
Speaking of Lower Dens, they've just revealed plans to release a followup to their 2010 debut LP, Twin-Hand Movement. The new album, titled Nootropics, will be out April 30 via the Domino affiliate label Ribbon Music. Grab the fast paced lead single, "Brains," at the top of this post and stream it below. Also below is the album artwork and tracklist.
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Stereogum giving away Strokes tribute album, Cities Aviv giving away an album too, playing Glasslands w/ Wise Blood
by Andrew Sacher
New album STROKED: A Tribute to Is This It, as the title hints, is a tribute to The Strokes' massively influential debut Is This It. The album was released for free on Stereogum today (7/26). They write:
Is This It was recorded in NYC at Transporterraum with Gordon Raphael. When it was finally released in the States in the Fall of 2001, a decade after Nevermind, it helped not only put contemporary New York City in the forefront of music lovers' minds, it offered an easy reference for people to dig backwards into the Big Apple's rock 'n' roll past. For certain younger fans, it was maybe the first time they carefully considered Television (the late '70s), the Velvet Underground (mid '60s to early '70s), and other lesser known garage and rock and whatever bands that inhabited a dirtier, grubbier Manhattan. The title's pure Richard Hell. The original sexy album cover a minimalist echo of New York Dolls (via Roxy Music). It's no coincidence that 2001 NYC -- eventually, especially Brooklyn -- ended up being known for its post-punk revival. (See, for instance, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Black Dice, Vice Records' No New York nodding collection Yes New York, etc.) Is This It was a history lesson, but one with enough new ideas to also offer a roadmap.Chelsea Wolfe, Austra, Owen Pallet, The Morning Benders, Real Estate, Peter Bjorn & John and others offer their takes on album tracks as well. Full tracklist below.
Cities Aviv
Wise Blood contributed "Someday" to "Stroked". He and fellow weirdo rapper Cities Aviv share a bill on September 1 at Glasslands in Brooklyn. The show is one of many scheduled around the world for Wise Blood, but is Cities Aviv's only date we see scheduled at the moment. Tickets for the Brooklyn show are on sale now.
Wise Blood's tour includes another NYC show two days later. He plays a Jelly RockBeach show on September 3 with Pictureplane and others TBA. More dates are listed below.
Cities Aviv, the self-proclaimed "Post-Death" rapper, is also on the Glasslands bill with Wise Blood. The Memphis native released his debut full length Digital Lows on May 2. The album's production credits go to a number of virtually unknown producers, Muted Drone, RPLD GHOSTS, Danny Dee, Upgrayde, and Royal'T. The beats are dreamy, reverb-soaked headknockers that sound about as woozy as that album art (below) looks. Cities Aviv takes the beats, which on their own would make up a pretty solid chillwave album, and spits biting lines with a classic southern drawl. Fille Catatonique provides sung vocals which blend quite nicely with the album's vibes. The final track, "Float On," features Cities Aviv rapping over chillwaver Blackbird Blackbird's cover of the Modest Mouse song, that he recorded for 2010's Happy High EP. It's a fun way to end the album, and is far better than Lupe Fiasco's "The Show Must Go On," which sampled the Modest Mouse song earlier this year.
Cities Aviv isn't exactly the only rapper crossing into lo-fi/indie-approved territory lately, but he's certainly approaching the crossover from a unique angle. Digital Lows isn't nearly as blown out as, say, Shabazz Palaces, but he's still got way more experimentation going on than guys like Wiz Khalifa or Theophilus London. Grab the album for free at his bandcamp and check out some songs below.
All tour dates, videos, album art and tracklist below...
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BV/M For Montreal Austin Day Party in pics (Braids, Adventure, Owen Pallett, Little Scream & many more)
photos by Amanda Hatfield and Timothy Griffin
Adventure (by Tim)
Braids (by Tim)
Braids and Adventure are on tour with Toro y Moi now. The three bands play sold out shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg and Bowery Ballroom on Sunday (4/10) and Monday (4/11).
As discussed and/or pictured HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE, we threw a free, three stage party with M For Montreal at Swan Dive and Barbarella in Austin on Saturday, March 19, 2011.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by, to all the bands who played and to Ramesh for DJing. Sorry to Bass Drum of Death for not getting to play due to some confusion. Thanks to the cast of Workaholics for stopping by and for doing some hosting (catch their show on Comedy Central now!). Thanks also to Izzoz, Sensible Portions, Honest Tea, VegAustin, Raw Revolution, NadaMoo, Firefly Vodka, Line 6, Korg, Vox, Blackstar, Nudie Jeans, and ASCAP. Thanks to everyone else that helped and to anyone I forgot.
A whole bunch more pictures from the whole day are below...
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BrooklynVegan & M For Montreal Free Saturday Austin Day Party lineup (3 stages @ Barbarella & Swan Dive)
If you've been following along, you know that this is finally the NINTH and FINAL BrooklynVegan SXSW 2011 show announcement! This one happens on Saturday, March 19th in Austin, at both Swan Dive and Barbarella (they connect). It runs from noon-6pm and is 100% free. We are doing it with our friends from M For Montreal and it looks like this:
STAGE 1 (SWAN DIVE)I'm ready to fall over.
12:00 PM New Moods
01:00 PM Oh Land
2:00 PM Austra
3:00 PM Little Scream
4:00 PM Owen Pallett
5:00 PM Braids
STAGE 2 (Barbarella main stage)
12:00 PM Baths
1:00 PM Misteur Valaire
3:00 PM Trail of Dead
4:00 PM Mount Kimbie
5:00 PM Daedelus
HOSTED BY: the cast of Workaholics
DJs: Ramesh (of Voxtrot) & 70's Bush
STAGE 3 (Barbarella small stage)
12:00 PM Bass Drum of Death
12:45 PM Adventure
1:30 PM Versus
2:30 PM Malajube
3:15 PM Suuns
4:00 PM Weekend
5:00 PM PS I Love You
And this party will also have:
- FREE vegan Izzoz breakfast tacos while supplies last!
- lots of FREE snacks courtesy of Sensible Portions!
- a lot of FREE Honest Tea!
- FREE Raw Revolution bars to eat.
- FREE vegan ice cream from NadaMoo
- FREE Firefly Vodka cocktails all day (while supplies last.)
- more FREE DRINKS TBA.
- Our official microphone sponsor Line 6.
- and our backline sponsors Korg, Vox & Blackstar.
- our sponsor Nudie Jeans.
- and to ASCAP for sponsoring too.
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When you hear the word 'ecstatic,' chances are classical music isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind. Even Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), one of last night's featured musicians, admitted that his music was "kind of quiet" and snoozy." But a cursory glance at Nadia Sirota's frenzied delivery on the viola, and the classicaly-bent Ecstatic Music Festival's choice adjective doesn't seem like such a misnomer.
The evening was arranged in three parts, one for each of the featured musicians. Of course, the performances were also highly collaborative and often called for all five performers (including violinist Rob Moose and cellist Clarice Jensen) to be on stage. "We're all friends and drinking companions," Bartlett revealed.
As evidenced by the the recent stringof Burgundy Stain Sessions at Le Poisson Rouge, Bartlett is no stranger to performing with a wide range of talented musicians, but after nearly a month of touring solo in Australia, he averred that extra musicians were a welcome addition. "I think I'm hallucinating the quartet," joked the jet-lagged pianist early into the show. Bartlett and company played a selection of Doveman's melodious songs, including a brand new one about lost love that he wrote during his recent trip abroad.
Following Bartlett's portion, Nadia Sirota moved to the center of the stage, her viola tucked safely under her arm. With its measured, gentle introduction, her first piece, 'Drums and Viola' provided a smooth transition from Bartlett's music into her more frenetic contributions. But with each passing movement of the song, the tension rose. To keep up with the heightened pace, Sirota inhaled sharply every few beats, which made her performance even more physical and impassioned. Like Thomas Bartlett, Sirota was also thrilled to present a new piece - Missy Mazzoli's 'Tooth and Nail'.
The final leg of the show featured Owen Pallett's sprightly selections. Though he is best known for his elaborate violin-looping skills, Pallett (who used to be known as Final Fantasy) started on the keyboard, accompanied by Bartlett and the slightly truncated strings section. After a few songs however, he picked up the violin so as not to betray his fans or the event poster. The majority of Palett's songs came from his last album, Heartland, but he also played an older song or two, including "He Poos Clouds."
Besides one odd technical difficulty when the music halted temporarily during the "difficult" song ("Lewis Takes Off His Shirt"), the acoustics were excellent, thanks largely to the carefully-engineered wood paneling in Merkin Concert Hall.
After each musician had the chance to show off a selection of songs from his or her repertoire, the group united on stage once more to conclude the evening with Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart."
Doveman has more shows coming up and Owen Pallett is headed down to Texas now. More pictures from the Ecstatic show, below...
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Owen Pallett at Wellmont Theater (more by David Andrako)
Owen Pallett is in NYC. He spent last night at Terminal 5 checking out OMD, and he'll play Merkin Concert Hall TONIGHT (3/9) with Nadia Sirota & Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) as part of the ongoing Ecstatic Music Festival. Tickets are still available for all of you procrastinators.
Owen Pallett is also one of the artists, like Austra and Oh Land, that we're happy to announce will be playing the Swan Dive on 3/19 as part of the three stage BrooklynVegan/M for Montreal Day Party (he then plays the Stereogum stage at Pure Volume House way later that night). Pallett and Austra both also on board to play the Domino showcase on 3/17 at Emo's with Cass McCombs, The Kills, and King Creosote. All tour dates and some videos are below.
Doveman also has a pair of other upcoming NYC dates - the star-studded show next week at LPR (3/16, tickets) and April 5th at Bowery Ballroom with Justin Bond (tickets).
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As previously announced, the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City's Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of imaginative collaborations between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the intersection of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres. The festival opens with a free seven-hour marathon on January 17, 2011, and continues with 13 additional concerts until March 28, 2011. All concerts will take place at Merkin Concert Hall.The Ecstatic Music Festival 2011 is almost here. Subscriptions and single show tickets are on sale. The full updated schedule (tUnE-yArDs, So Percussion, Dan Deacon, Craig Wedren, ACME, Nadia Sirota, Buke & Gass, Doveman, Owen Pallett, Bang On A Can All-Stars, and more included), and a trailer, below...
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Here We Go Magic, Pigeons (SECRETLY CANADIAN)
Beach House, Teen Dream (SUB POP)
Big Boi, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (PURPLE RIBBON/DEF JAM)
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Kevin Drew's band Broken Social Scene is touring soon and playing Terminal 5. Big Boi has a show coming up at Terminal 5 too. Beach House have two shows coming up at Webster Hall as part of a short tour, and they played Conan last night (12/20). Video below...
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The Bedford Playhouse was opened in 1947 by the defunct Metropolitan Playhouses Chain, which had several theatres throughout the NY-NJ-CT area (most of which are still open!). The lobby is all original, except for the addition of a concession stand.
The auditorium was split into two in the 1980's, and each side still has a portion of the balcony open to sit in. The balcony is at ground level, and guests must walk downstairs to gain access to the orchestra section. There are still some original decorative touches in the auditorium, and the small stage survives behind the screens.
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The Architects were John and Drew Eberson, and the theatre opened in 1947, not 1948 as I noted above.
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alas, this was the guide i followed to no avail! I couldnt change any of the profile keys because i couldnt get into an adminstrator account without the need to enter the password and the failed message reappearing.
Same situation for the safe mode boot.. hence the question!
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In that case, have you tried Last Known Good Configuration? See Advanced Boot Options
It will also help us to know the make and model number of the laptop in question. There might be some information at the manufacturer's website.
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thanks, i'll give that a try! im sure i'll be back if i run into anything else with a mates computer which needs fixing.
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Hmm, that's a tough one. My top three would be fiddle/violin, piano, and guitar. The fiddle or violin would be neat because of the vastly different types of music you can play – from country to classical. I say that, but I have no idea if there are many people that do play both types of music. I think a Google search may be in order after this post! The piano is a beautiful instrument and there are so many wonderful songs that come mind when I think of the piano. I think I would have a much better chance of writing songs if I could play the piano and play it well. As it stands I don't write any songs at all, just dream of that day that I might. The singer in me (and the southern in me to be honest) would go for the guitar. As far back as I can remember I wanted to be a country music singer. At one point in my life I actually looked for roommates in Nashville and toyed with the idea of transferring from my job at the time to a location in Nashville. It probably would've been a great adventure, but at the end of the day no matter how much I love to sing and even if I'm pretty good at it – I knew that I'm no Trisha Yearwood. But everything ended up the way that it was supposed to end up. I have a great husband, two wonderful children, and a job that I love. I can sing my heart out in the shower, on the way to work, or at a local bar on karaoke night. Life is good.
So, given all that, if I had to choose I would choose guitar because of reasons stated earlier and because of the portability of it. If I could play the guitar and was awesome at it, I would take it with me everywhere and be ready to break into song. People would think that was cool. If I were to drag a karaoke player out of my car and start singing, well that probably wouldn't get the same result. So I could choose guitar because it would allow me to sing without people thinking "who is that crazy food with the karaoke machine." Instead maybe they would say "Wow, that girl with the guitar can sing too!" LOL!
I'll just stick to my day job either way. How about y'all? Which instrument would you pick?
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Last Year I participated in the 2013 Reading Challenge on Goodreads. I challenged myself to read 50 books in one year. Though I really tried, near the end I just wanted to listen to Christmas music sometimes instead of an audio book and enjoy time with my family instead of curling up by myself with a book. I was only able to read 48 books toward my goal of 50. I realized sometime near the end of the year that my goal was almost one book a week. That's a LOT of reading for anyone but considering the other things I had going on in 2013 – I'm very proud of the 48 books I was able to read.
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is indulging his enthusiasm for space travel with a new project: a giant aircraft designed for mid-flight rocket launchers. And he doesn't think small: under a new company, Stratolaunch Systems, Allen plans to put together the "biggest airliner ever built" using six 747 engines to haul SpaceX …
Well it's great that more people are making more launchers but...
An air-launched vehicle? I'm not an engineer but I really don't see that this is such a good thing.
It lifts your rocket & capsule/cargo up above the densest part of the atmosphere, true but... the difference between the amount of energy the orbital vehicle (OV) needs to go from stationary to orbital velocity really wouldn't, IMHO, be that much different from the amount of energy to go from, say, 450kph to orbital velocity.
The (probably highly complex) aerodynamics of a mothership/air-launched orbital vehicle would, probably, limit the size of the capsule/cargo you could get up into orbit. 10 tonnes payload, MAXIMUM in my opinion.
Not to mention that you'd be paying for an enormous aircraft that would be specialised for one thing, would be manufactured in very small quantities (say... 3? At most?) and so would likely be very expensive to design, develop, test, maintain, insure and run.
And once you've finished paying ALL THAT, you've got to start handing out cash for the OV's design, development, testing, maintainance, running costs, insurance etc...
It might work and even be profitable IF you're prepared to write off the entire development & initial manufacturing costs...
To Kharkov.... Paul Allen is passionate about aviation and I'm sure he is fully prepared to lose the "pocket change" this venture will cost to pursue. If you haven't followed some of his other ventures of passion...here's my favorite:
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The good thing about this setup, is that the rocket/spaceship doesnt have to carry all that heavy oxygen, you're already partways out of the gravity well, and into the thinner air, so the spaceship can carry a lot less fuel, meaning it will be lighter, meaning it can carry even less fuel.
In stead of having a 3 stage rocket, you can have the big mothership do the heavy lifting, and get rid of 1 or 2 stages.
They used to use B52 bombers for this kind of trick.
Take a B52, hook an X15 onto it.
Start B52,
reach altitude
(nice pics on the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15 )
Part of the SDI program, (not sure if it ever was life tested or paperplans only) used F15's with a satelitekiller missile under it's wings.
The F15 would speed to it's highest flight altitude, and from there launch the spy-sat killer rocket, which would blast off and kill the satelite.
Wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle#Satellite_killer
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Other articles I read declare the OV will be a SpaceX Falcon 9 with some aerodynamic surfaces to get it pointed up. The aircraft development will only be the airframe as the engines/ avionics/ everything else will be taken from existing commercial airliners.
As for getting a leg up to space, my quick calculations suggest the carrier plane could provide 0.000003% of the energy the OV will need to get to LEO. The reasoning for this approach must lie elsewhere.
And also...
... if you're going to go all that way to design a custom aircraft to act as a first stage lifter, why not just go the whole hog and design an orbital vehicle along similar lines...???
The big benefit is that you're not restricted to one or two launch sites. You might still have only one or two launch bases, but a carrier based in Florida could fly down to the equator to launch the rocket and gain the same sort of lift advantage over a Kennedy launch that an Ariane out of Kourou does, or one in Florida can fly out into the Pacific for an eastwards launch instead of being restricted to polar orbits from Vandenberg.
The carrier is being sized to launch the SpaceX Falcon 9 which can already put over 10 tonnes into LEO. This would make it possible to put the same or more into the ISS orbit, or put larger satellites into GEO. I suspect the attachment points designed in for the Falcon 9 Heavy are also ideal for attaching to the carrier.
The aerodynamics are well understood, Pegasus has been launched this way for years and Rutan has done a lot of work on the White Knight carriers for Spaceship 1 and 2. If you look at other reports, some of which include pictures, this is another in the White Knight series.
Hmmm, still no Rocket Science icon...
Since John Glenn?
I guess he doesn't remember the period between the last Apollo flight for ASTP in July '75 to the first Shuttle flight in April '81, where we couldn't fly astronauts either. This is the sort of thing that makes him seem to be a blowhard instead of someone serious.
Or the hiatus when it was realised that the shuttle could have accidents and was grounded while people reviewed the state of the design and possible issues.
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No problem with this new aircraft and so on, but could we please give free seats to LibDem MP's and other retards who think that having a closer marriage with the EU is a good thing. One way tickets that is, we don't want them coming back.
Free seats for the arseholes who still think we have an empire and are a powerful trading block on our own rather than just a small country of the coast of Europe.
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4 hr getting to Gatwick and another 4 hr in check-in.
Give me ground launched.
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An aircraft with six engines, larger than a 747 and capable of carying spaceships... Sounds like he wants to reinvent the wheel^H^H^H^H^HAntonov 225.
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Yes, the Shuttle was expensive and not altogether reliable. Yes, it was little more than a gliding iron and without computers it would never have landed unscathed. Nonetheless, watching a Shuttle launch was, as far as I am concerned, one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen.
Ungainly and expensive as it was, the Shuttle served faithfully for years and allowed Humanity to stay in space for extended periods. It pained me when NASA mothballed it.
Yet, one is forced to recognize that, now that NASA no longer has the monopoly of space flight, interesting projects are seeing the light of day under private management. Allen may be a blowhard in some people's opinions, but rich people are used to such accusations, I suppose.
Meanwhile, he is going to spend a lot of money to try yet another way of keeping humans in space, and for that, I can only say good luck !
How about between Mercury and Gemini?
Mid-1963 to 1965, where no American flew into space either.
Although in both that and the Apollo-Shuttle pause, the follow-on program was much more advanced when the previous one stopped.
Bah! Both with Apollo and Orion NASA rejected the better designs: GE Apollo (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apollod2.htm) and Lockheed Martin CEV (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/cevkheed.htm). Whatever happens it's their own fault.
Did he start just copying LOHAN?
but think he should promote his own company's products.
A sycophant icon, please.
Oh, it's a Burt Rutan thing...
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It's a Burt Rutan thing. They're talking about approx. 5 tonnes of payload. The article I gave mentions the Falcon 4 or 5 (so named for the number of engines on the rocket, presumably a version of Falcon 9) being slung under a MUCH larger SpaceShiptwo derivitive.
A new, really big specialist airplane carrying rockets, now I REALLY don't see this as saving money or making getting to orbit cheaper.
Yes, you can fly from the assembly point to whatever latitute you want and so easily get the orbital inclination you want but apart from the mothership (expensive to get, as I said in my earlier post) you're still using up a non-reusable multi-stage rocket and all so you can get about 5 tonnes into LEO.
I retract my earlier statement. No way this turkey's going to make a profit. In fact, no way this is even going to get built.
I have no idea of the dimensions of this aircraft, could the author of his article please restate them in the commonly accepted units of double decker busses and football pitches.
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@Kharkov - Airlaunch efficiency
Air launching grants you an extra deltaV of roughly 300 m/s over ground launch, but you also get a small 100m/s reduction in aerodynamic drag, 100m/s reduction in gravity loss, and an ability to use increased expansion ratio on your engines allowing a much higher specific impulse. Overall you get about 800 m/s for free. The exponential nature of the rocket equation means that this is a substantial increase in payload. The rocket itself is going to use existing engines and tooling, an existing second stage, and the Dragon capsule is being developed on NASA's coin.
The real story is that the small deltaV boost from airlaunch may allow a methane fueled stage to be operated as a reusable SSTO. Perhaps if SpaceX had the sense to be designing a vertical landing system and a staged combustion engine...
Great that they can make it out of bits already lying around, a bigged-up scrapheap challenge?
How big it would need to be to assist a Saturn V equivalent?
Why not go the whole hog, or perhaps that'll be next if successful?
(I think you mean 100m/s gained by starting from a higher potential. Difference in g over 10km is not too much!)
How massive would the Earth have to be to make it impossible to leave by chemical rockets? (ie. a ballistic black hole)
I can't do the maths, but I imagine that Earth is fairly close to that limit and that we are lucky we can leave it at all. Perhaps 1.5g?
Finding airstrips will also be non-trivial - bollocks
There are quite a few 5km+ airstrips in the USA built during the cold war just in case. Ditto for ex-Warsaw pact. A lot of them are not used regularly (if at all) so that should not be a problem.
What about Alan Shepard?
Alan Shepard was the first American in space, for a hop, John Glenn was only the first American to do an orbit. If you're going to invoke history, you could at least get it right!
At least Burt Rutan knows what he's doing...
When I first saw the headline and byline...
..."Paul Allen proposes new space launcher - Stratolaunch building BLOODY BIG 747-powered lifter"...
I had visions of skyscrapper buildings being fitted with (Bloody Big) jets and/or rocket motors; an incarnation of the spaceships described in Iain M Banks' "The Culture" series of scifi books, perhaps. Of course, there would also be a need for field generators to be invented/realised, in order to keep containment...
The actual article was much more mundane than that as well as being scant on detail.
Oh well...
As usual, Gerry Anderson and his design team got there first
SHADO Moon Shuttle
Gives truth to that saying "There's nothing new under the sun". Or even the far side of it if you were to journey there.
For those of you getting that last reference, mine's the one with the coloured sleeve.
How will this puppy abort a launch?
Taking a wild leap, I'd assume this aircraft is designed to take off with rocket and land ONLY without it's payload. That means that each flight/launch has got to be successful. No last minute holds or delays. Once the aircraft's wheels leave the ground, that rocket's either going into orbit or into the ocean.
Now that sort of dependency is probably OK for a mature launch vehicle: one that's had, what? several dozen successful lunches - but to assume that from day#1 the number of "ooops-es" will be low enough to not have customers running back to conventional players is quite a lot to ask for.
A few points
Short production runs of highly specialized aircraft is what Scaled Composites *does*. That's BAU for them.
It's not clear if they just using the engines or keeping the fuselages as well.
As others have pointed out you gain some velocity (up to c300ms) and avoid some losses *but* not enough to eliminate a whole *stage* (AFAIK they are still talking TSTO).
It's not clear if you can use the nozzle developed for the Merlin vacuum variant or need another nozzle entirely. Which up's the development bill.
While Falcon 5 was *planned* it's unclear how far it's development has actually gone, while "Falcon 4" would seem to be a *completely* new vehicle.
That said given Spacex's highly modular approach to development *should* make the shift fairly easy.
*However* that leaves the problem that it's *very* doubtful any Falcon was designed to be carried *horizontally* while fully loaded with a payload attached. Might have enough margin that it's no big deal. Might not.
Actually it's a great idea
Not totally new maybe, but it gives you the flexibility to launch in any azimuth at essentially any point of the globe. So you don't have to first adjust your orbit inclination like you do when launching from the Cape into, say geostationary orbit, or into the Space Station one. What's more, you get to the altitude where you can optimise your rocket nozzle to work best in (almost) vacuum, gaining some efficiency (specific impulse). Yes you also launch above the weather, another point in favour. So yes, if they get around the (more or less) obvious engineering challenges, it'll be worthwhile.
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If only all these successful researchers and engineers and investors and entrepreneurs and mutibillionaires would read the register and see how they've utterly failed to think about their new ideas for even 5 seconds and missed all those glaring, catastrophic problems. If only they'd come here and see the error of their ways and not piss all that money away.
Or, y'know, maybe the fact that the venture is with a notably successful rocketry company they may have done the absolute bare minimum due diligence with regards to cost savings and efficiencies. Between the winner of the X-prize and one of the richest people on the entire planet, I think they can just about manage to understand, between them, basic finance and engineering.
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Air-traffic errors double
WASHINGTON — in a time of unparalleled aviation safety in the United States, reports of mistakes by air-traffic controllers have nearly doubled — a seeming contradiction that has safety experts puzzled.the latest incident — the near midair collision of an American Airlines jet with 259 people aboard and two Air Force transport planes southeast of New York City, has raised eyebrows in Congress and led to questions about a nonpunitive culture of error reporting in air-traffic-control facilities.A US Airways plane carrying 95 people crossed paths with a small cargo plane in September, coming within 50 to 100 feet of each other while taking off from Minneapolis. A few months earlier, a US Airways Airbus 319 intersected the path of another cargo plane during an aborted landing in Anchorage, Alaska.in fact, an air-traffic controller at the Ronkonkoma, N.Y., radar facility that handled the American plane says he complained about a lax atmosphere at the facility — the second-busiest of its kind in the nation.Controller Evan Seeley, 26, said he ran afoul of the local union when he tried to prevent sick leave and scheduling abuses aimed at increasing overtime pay. even more disturbing were Seeley's charges that controllers sometimes watch movies and play with electronic devices during nighttime shifts when traffic is slower. He said he has sent his complaints to the Transportation Department's inspector general and to the Office of Special Counsel, which investigates whistleblower charges. He claims his recent demotion from his position as a frontline manager was related to the complaints.in the 12 months ending Sept. 30, there were 1,889 operation errors — which usually means aircraft coming too close together, according to the Federal Aviation Administration's official tally. during the same period a year earlier, there were 947 errors. and the year before that there were 1,008 errors.the FAA administrator says the higher number of reported errors is due to better reporting and better technology that can determine more precisely how close planes are in the air.very few of the errors fall into the most serious category, which could result in pilots taking evasive action to prevent an accident. but those instances have also increased. in the year ending Sept. 30, there were 44 such events, 37 in the prior year and 28 in the year before that.Saturday will mark 24 months in a row in which there have been no fatal airline accidents. the last was the crash of a regional airliner Feb. 12, 2009, near Buffalo, N.Y., that killed 50.
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