"Sleep-Rocking: Stars of the Lid"

"I'm a really big sports fan," says Wiltzie, causing the reporter to cough up Diet Coke from surprise. Wiltzie reels off his teams: the Cubs, the Spurs, the Dallas Stars (hockey = very macho). There's tennis, which he played competitively. And English Premier League football — soccer to you. Wiltzie likes that "there's a finality to it. We could always have two different opinions about music but in sports there's a winner and a loser."

What I want to know is, which EPL team does he support? If it's Tottenham, I may have to boo him at the show tomorrow night.

"The enduring enigma that is Stars Of The Lid finds an appropriate home in Montreal"

Pittzburgh City Paper talks to Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid: Stars of the Lid brings elegant soundscapes to the Warhol.

I've never really been much a fan of his work, but Kevin Kelly has posted an interesting email from Robert Rich discussing how he's been able to make a living as a "microcelebrity."

So let's look a bit at the finances. If I can make about $5-$10 per download or directly sold CD, and I sell 1000, I clear a maximum of $10,000 for that year's effort. That's not a living. Let's say, after 20 concerts I net about $10,000 for three to four months worth of full time effort. That's not a living.

• My Formica Table
  "The aim is to try to help and nurture a growing community of experimentally minded musicians and artists. I think, along with many others, that Free Music is the way forward, so that's what is being provided here."

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• Better branding through music: Original airport theme songs - USATODAY.com
  "They wrote on-hold music for the telephones, special elevator music and an airport "gong," a four-second piece of music called Happy Sky played before every overhead announcement in the airport."
• The Wire: Bang On A Can All-Stars: Music For Airports
  "From the June 1998 issue of The Wire - Adventures In Modern Music, kindly supplied and typed by Robert Phan"

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• Sounds Are Active
• WILLITS + SAKAMOTO AVAILABLE « 12k
  "the Willits + Sakamoto cd ?Ocean Fire? is now available in 12k?s online shop and starting to creep into stores."
• INTERVIEWING GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS « 12k
  "Tony writes beautiful and haunting ambient folk and makes arguably the best music i?ve heard in a few years."
• 12K2008 AUDIO SAMPLES NOW AVAILABLE « 12k
  "excerpts from the SOLO ANDATA - SEAWORTHY - TAYLOR DEUPREE ?LIVE IN MELBOURNE? cd (12k2008) have now been posted on the release page on the website."
• NORTHERN RE-MIXING « 12k
  "instead of just pressing more of the same cd and cover, however, i decided to take a slightly different approach."
• JODI CAVE: 15 QUESTIONS FROM TOKAFI « 12k
  "When does a term like ?unobtrusive? turn into a compliment? With Jodi Caves ?For Myria?, it has happened quite naturally. The result of years of studying and experimenting, this fragile and tender work is as short as it was amazing..."
• The Echoes Blog » Blog Archive » The Academy Awards Soundtrack Rejects
  "Year after year, the Academy Awards selects bombast, sentimentality and faux classicism over innovation, atmosphere, and inventive instrumentation."
• Fennesz/Jeck/Matthews | Amoroso | Limited 7" ::: fennesz.com
  Side a: Fennesz/Matthews 3' 34" Side b: Jeck/Matthews 3' 24"

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• BBC - Radio 4 - The Last Goodbye
  "A moving and inspirational feature about an extraordinary humanitarian project to create a musical and artistic space in a hospital morgue. Sound artist Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) embarks on a remarkable personal and artistic journey of discovery."

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• Sounds of seclusion - Music - Entertainment - theage.com.au
  "Almost a decade has elapsed since Dupe - the composer, producer and musician behind the beauteous instrumental soundcraft of Saddleback - left Sydney for the south coast of New South Wales."
• beaconsfield
  "Ten experimental sound artists are invited to explore in public the principles of self-cancellation in sound through conferencing, workshops and performance in London and Glasgow."

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• apestaartje : about
  "The basic premise for all of our work comes from an acute interest in both gradual development and extremely detailed listening"

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• Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music | New Home on Techno.org
  It's kind of nutso, but start at Downtempo, which will take you to Ambient, and away you go!

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• Cameron Webb/Seaworthy Selects
  Interesting post at Cyclic Defrost with Cameron Webb of Seaworthy talking about some of his favorite records.

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Another link to another Sigur Ros story elsewhere: There's no place like home: The strangest band in the world just got stranger... In Iceland, Craig McLean chews the whale sushi with the extraordinary Sigur Ros

• Infraction Recollection
  Infraction Records
• Beautiful Lunar Landscape - "Alone in this Dark Romantic Night"
  "Beautiful Lunar Landscape?s music is constructed with a cartographer?s sense of detail and direction."
• SAVVAS YSATIS + TAYLOR DEUPREE ?THE SLEEPING MORNING? NOW AVAILABLE « 12k
  "Their new EP, The Sleeping Morning, was created during a week-long visit from Greece to the US. Ysatis and Deupree wanted to freely create and see what came naturally after a 10-year hiatus from working together in the studio."

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• How Brian Eno Helped Travelers Check Their Emotional Baggage - washingtonpost.com
  I listen to 1/1 everytime I'm in an airport or airplane.

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