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NYT blogs Bonnaroo
And comments on the green efforts |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| There's a lot of press here at Bonnaroo, so I don't know why I was so surprised to find out that Jon Pareles of The New York Times is here blogging the festival. I guess I just can't imagine the Gray Lady all sweaty and covered in dirt, hanging out with the hippies.Anyway, Friday he posted a short piece on Bonnaroo's greening efforts -- check it out. |
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| Topics: Bonnaroo, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Bonnaroo: Gettin' friendly with Franti
At a Bonnaroo press conference |
Sarah van Schagen |
15 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I just left the first press conference of Bonnaroo where hiphop-funk-reggae guru Michael Franti of Spearhead set the stage by explaining his routine when coming to Bonnaroo: "The first thing I always do is go over to the port-a-potty, because you can tell what stage the festival is in ..." The man speaks the truth. Asked about using the stage as a soapbox, Franti went on to speak about the community at Bonnaroo: "When you come to a festival, you'r ... |
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| Topics: Bonnaroo, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Bonnaroo crowds (and trash) arrive
Look out! |
Sarah van Schagen |
15 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The masses started arriving yesterday. Gates opened at noon, and 'Roo-goers were ready. At left is the 'before' shot -- the open grassy field (once home to cows and cow pies) that will soon be just a field of dirt covered in dirt-covered people and dirt-covered trash. Unless Clean Vibes has something to do with it, that is. They're the expert trash-picker-uppers I mentioned last year. And if what I saw yesterday is any indication, they're back in full force ... |
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| Topics: Bonnaroo, green living, music, recycling, waste (all these topics) |
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Live Earth: This just in ...
Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts |
Chris Schults |
14 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Antarctica gig lined up for Live Earth concerts: OK, so they're not rock stars. But scientists with the British Antarctic Survey will guarantee Al Gore's promise that the Live Earth concerts on July 7 will be performed on all 7 continents. They'll be performing during the dead of winter at the Rothera Research Station. In fact, it'll be the first time anyone outside the station has heard the indie rock-folk band, Nunatak, play at all. (Nunatak, by the way, is a G ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Bonnaroo part deux
I'm baaaack ... |
Sarah van Schagen |
14 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'm writing this post while sitting at the Grist booth at Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. If you're here, come say hi -- and explain why you're reading Gristmill instead of listening to some of the amazing music out here. It seems like it was just a year ago that I was out here reporting on all the ways Bonnaroo is making efforts to go green. And wondering how I would survive four nights in a tent ... let alone set it up. I guess I just c ... |
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| Topics: Bonnaroo, green living, music, shameless self-promotion (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: M. Ward
Good tunes to take you into the weekend |
David Roberts |
08 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Listen Play 'To Go Home' by M. Ward: M. Ward is a rarity: an artist who started out as something of a novelty act but has gotten consistently better, blossoming into one of the most expressive, interesting songwriters on the current indie scene. His first album, End of Amnesia, was good but samey: scratchy, faint, analog, like on old homemade folk recording you found in your grandma's attic. With every album since, the music ... |
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| Topics: music (all these topics) |
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Maybe Anne-Sophie Muttered
Tree used for violin bows gets U.N. protection, others slip through the cracks |
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08 Jun 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Maybe Anne-Sophie Muttered Tree used for violin bows gets U.N. protection, others slip through the cracks A threatened tree species used in high-quality violin bows gained new protections yesterday -- and so did the violin bows. The U.N.'s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species added brazilwood to the list of nearly 40,000 species it regulates. Originally, the guidelines would have required violi ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, music, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Okkervil River
Tunes for the end of the week |
David Roberts |
01 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Listen Play 'O, Dana,' by Okkervil River: I was originally going to fly to D.C. on Sun. June 10, but I moved it back a day when I found out Okkervil River is playing Seattle that night. Okkervil is a bit of a strange case -- they're one of my favorite bands of the last few years, maybe ever, but I'm leery about recommending them to people. They are ... an acquired taste. There's what you might call retail music -- stuff that's ... |
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We got TRASHed, and angry
The Girls of Grist do Sasquatch |
Kate Sheppard |
29 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A group of Grist hotties ladies just returned from the Sasquatch Music Festival at the Gorge in George, Wash., where we spent two days volunteering at the TRASHed Recycling Store, sponsored by Global Inheritance, a hip nonprofit based in California that combines creativity, youthful enthusiasm, and activism into unique, progressive-minded projects. They travel around and do activisty things at different events that the yoot flock to, like Coachella, the X Games, and S ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, green living, jackassery, music (all these topics) |
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Live Earth: Linkin Park to headline Tokyo show
And start a green tour |
Sarah van Schagen |
29 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Live Earth organizers announced today that Linkin Park will headline the Tokyo show. They also announced that Japan will be the only country to have two events -- one in surburban Tokyo (the mainstage featuring Linkin Park) and one at a Buddhist temple in Kyoto (and I think you get the connection there). The Kyoto temple event will feature the Yellow Magic Orchestra, an electropop outfit starring Ryuichi Sakamoto, who wrote the score for the 1992 Barcelona Olymp ... |
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| Topics: green living, music (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Mark Ronson
A tune for the end of the week |
David Roberts |
25 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Listen Play 'Valerie,' by Mark Ronson: Two of the best pop albums of the last year are Lily Allen's Alright, Still and Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. What do they have in common (besides cute, clever female singer-songwriters, that is)? Producer Mark Ronson. The guy's a mad pop genius. As it happens, Ronson puts out albums of his own. The latest is called Version, and it's composed of cover versions of contemporary pop songs. H ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, music (all these topics) |
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I'm not sure if a rock concert is the answer ...
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David Roberts |
20 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ... but I'm pretty sure 'burning all the oil' isn't. |
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| Topics: energy, green living, music, oil (all these topics) |
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Friday music blogging: Dolorean
Good tune that has nothing to do with the environment |
David Roberts |
18 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| You know what's nice on a sleepy Friday afternoon? A love song. Listen Play 'Dying in Time,' by Dolorean: Here's one of my favorite love songs of the last decade: 'Dying In Time,' by Dolorean. (They have a fantastic new album called You Can't Win, but this is from their last one, Violence in Snowy Fields.) Lyrics below the fold. Dolorean: "Dying in Time" I've thought about this for some time Especially wh ... |
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| Topics: music (all these topics) |
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And I Am a Recycled-Material Girl
Madonna releases single to support Live Earth climate efforts |
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18 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| And I Am a Recycled-Material Girl Madonna releases single to support Live Earth climate efforts What is it about climate change that makes music ... suck? First we had Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up," the earnest, Oscar-winning Inconvenient Truth anthem. Now we have Madonna's "Hey You," a somnolent single released this week in conjunction with Live Earth, the continents-spanning climate-awareness conce ... |
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| Topics: green living, music, news (all these topics) |
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Live Earth: 7+ concerts on 7ish continents on 7/7/07
And if I could work another 7 in there, I would |
Sarah van Schagen |
17 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| The Live Earth website has been updated with a fancy (and much improved) new design that features a different 'Climate Crisis Solution' every time you refresh the page (not that I've refreshed it multiple times in an effort to see every single tip ...). And lately, news tidbits about the concerts are popping up fast and furious as well. On the furiouser side, Live Aid and Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof has said Live Earth is a waste of time. Meanwhile, another gr ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Someday you will die and somehow something's gonna steal your carbon
Music blogging comes to Gristmill |
David Roberts |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I've decided that green or no green, I'm going to start getting some music up on this blog. Every blog needs some music, right? Listen Play 'Parting of the Sensory,' by Modest Mouse: Anyway, I've been digging on the new Modest Mouse album We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Here's 'Parting of the Sensory,' from which this post's title comes. And in other music news: Hey look, MTV interviewed Cloud Cult! |
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| Topics: green living, music (all these topics) |
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Ouch!
Live Aid guy disses Gore's Live Earth concerts |
David Roberts |
15 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's what Live Aid and Live 8 organizer Bob Geldoff had to say about Gore's Live Earth concerts: 'I hope they're a success,' De Volkskrant newspaper quoted Geldof as saying in an interview. 'But why is (Gore) actually organizing them? To make us aware of the greenhouse effect? Everybody's known about that problem for years. We are all (expletive) conscious of global warming,' he said. ... 'I would only organize (Live Earth) if I could go on stage and anno ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, celebrity, climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Subsidized ethanol blues
Bio Willie, make way for Jeff Parnell |
Ron Steenblik |
08 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Political songwriter Jeff Parnell has just composed a jaunty little ditty called 'Subsidized Ethanol Blues.' (Click on link to play.) As Parnell sings it: 'Sacrifice the water and land, and what do you gain? Line the pockets of cronies, playing that subsidy game!' The rest of the lyrics are found below the fold:Subsidized Ethanol Blues By Jeff Parnell I got the 51-cents-per-gallon, subsidized ethanol blues, I do. The water table's dropping, The land is worth ... |
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| Topics: energy, ethanol, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Bird Watching
Nine things you should know about musician Andrew Bird |
Sarah van Schagen |
04 May 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Andrew Bird. Photo: Cameron Wittig/andrewbird.net Meet Andrew Bird. He's a musician and songwriter who artfully combines his talents on multiple instruments -- violin, guitar, glockenspiel, his own flute-like whistling -- to create an eclectic, memorable sound that defies typical terms like "indie" and "folk." Over the last decade, Bird has been gaining momentum, releasin ... |
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| Topics: green living, music (all these topics) |
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Green so light it barely leaves an impression
From pop star John Mayer |
David Roberts |
30 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| John Mayer. Photo: sushla via flickr Congratulations to pop star dreamboat John Mayer for penning what can only be termed a reductio ad absurdum of the light-green, change-your-lightbulbs, ten-things-you-can-do, don't-sweat-it-too-much, caring-a-little-is-OK but caring-too-much-is-square environmentalism. I was going to pick excerpts, but really you gotta read the whole post to get the full impact. Ladies and gentlemen, John Mayer: (Preface: Don't get tur ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, environmental movement, funnies, green living, messaging, music (all these topics) |
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The times, are they really a-changin'?
Bob Dylan on climate change |
Kate Sheppard |
23 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Bob Dylan, global warming denialist? |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, climate change skepticism, green living, music (all these topics) |
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Hey, look!
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David Roberts |
18 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| An interview with Cloud Cult! |
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| Topics: green living, music, shameless self-promotion (all these topics) |
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A Cult Oriented
An interview with Craig Minowa of green-leaning band Cloud Cult |
David Roberts |
18 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Craig Minowa. Imagine the soaring tribal rock of Arcade Fire, the head-nodding beat-pop of Postal Service, and the arty skronk of Modest Mouse, strung together in a loose-limbed, lo-fi pastiche. Toss in half a chamber orchestra and some found-sound collages, and top it off with vocals of almost childlike guilelessness and yearning. That, in a nutshell, is Cloud Cult, a quirky little b ... |
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Billie Joe spends a green day rebuilding New Orleans
With Habitat for Humanity |
Sarah van Schagen |
16 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| In a recent collaboration with U2 on "The Saints Are Coming," Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day sang about a house in New Orleans. But he spent this weekend hammering soffit onto one, as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity. Armstrong brought along some friends and his fam to help with the project as well, and they've been blogging about the experience on the Green Day fansite. On a semi-but-not-really-related note, Green Day is continuing to work wit ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, green living, music, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Giants Stadium new home for 7/7/07 climate concert
Ticket info and line-ups also announced |
Sarah van Schagen |
10 Apr 2007 |
Gristmill |
| After much back-and-forth over D.C. locations for Al Gore's Live Earth Concerts on 7/7/07, organizers today announced the U.S. concert will be held at Giants Stadium in New Jersey. Tickets for the show will go on sale Monday, April 16, at 10 a.m. EDT. Locations were also announced for five of the other seven concerts to be held on the seven continents: UK: Wembley Stadium, London Brazil: Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro South Africa: The Cradle of Human Kin ... |
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| Topics: celebrity, climate, green living, music (all these topics) |
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