DAILYSESSION

By Eric Smalley-cnetnews

Nowadays, when a friend says her TV stinks, you assume she’s talking about picture or sound quality. Some years down the road–assuming certain cross-Pacific R&D pans out–she might mean that literally.
Researchers at the University of California at San Diego are collaborating with Samsung to develop a compact odor-generating component for TVs and cell phones. The as-yet-unnamed device would give television programs and Web sites a palette of 10,000 odors.[Read More]

By Science

Scientific inspiration sometimes comes from unlikely sources. Two years ago, Gregory Berns, a neuroeconomist at Emory University in Atlanta, was on the couch with his kids watching American Idol. One of the contestants sang the melancholy hit song “Apologize” by the alternative rock band OneRepublic, and something clicked in Berns’s mind. [Read More]

By Seth Tobocman – The Shadow

On August 6,1988, the worst riot in 20-years erupted outside New York City’s Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side. On that night, nearly 500 police stormed into this popular neighborhood, assaulting hundreds, while trying to squelch the protest against a midnight park curfew. The obscure law allowing the closing of the park hadn’t been enforced by the city in decades.

Tompkins Square Park, considered by many as the heartbeat of the Lower East Side, is surrounded by a neighborhood populated by Latinos, punk rockers, artists, eastern European immigrants and a recent influx of wealthy professionals.[Read More]

By Laurence O’Donnell-Cerebromente

“Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it even if we so desired” (Boethius cited by Storr).
Music’s interconnection with society can be seen throughout history. Every known culture on the earth has music. Music seems to be one of the basic actions of humans. However, early music was not handed down from generation to generation or recorded. Hence, there is no official record of “prehistoric” music. Even so, there is evidence of prehistoric music from the findings of flutes carved from bones.[Read More]

By NY Press

Oh, boy—we’re going to Long Island City! Today PS1 announced the schedule for its annual Warm Up series, and it looks like another year of excitedly prancing over the Pulaski Bridge to see live music and dragging ourselves back to Brooklyn, sunburned and happy. Check out the full schedule after the jump.[Read More]

By Tali – Nu Soul Magagine

Feeling in the mood for something fresh? Something to stir your soul and get your head bobbing? Then the answer may lie here, in an album beautifully sewn together with groove injected vibes that stretch from London to New York. Formerly of 90?s DnB Soul influenced collective 4Hero and not to mention a whole heap of other collaborative projects and aliases such as Tek 9, Jacob’s Optical Stairway, DKD and Silhouette Brown, the time has finally come for Denis ‘Dego’ McFarlane to shine using his own name. And what better way than with his new album Wha Him De Pon? a soulful, jazzy and synth infused LP, perfect for bumpin’ in the summer sunshine.[Read More]

By Larry Rother – NY Times

From the outside the club appears to be just another shuttered and somewhat grotty East Village storefront, and the interior, with its scarred wooden floor and graffiti-daubed walls, isn’t any more impressive. Instead, it’s what happens onstage that has made Nublu’s reputation as an incubator of musical talent, with some of the most adventurous and varied offerings in the city. [Read More]

By Fact Magazine

Legendary producer Martin Rushent has died at the age of 63.

Perhaps best known for his work on The Human League‘s Dare, Rushent began his career in the 1970s, engineering records for the likes of T. Rex, Yes and Fleetwood Mac. His progress to the producer’s chair coincided with the birth of punk, and he was at the controls for key releases by Buzzcocks, XTC and The Stranglers.[Read More]

By Brett Johnson – The BVX

‘Viva Riva!’, a high-octane crime thriller set in the Congo during a fuel crisis, is the first feature film from the country in 25 years. And it’s a riveting, beautifully shot portrait of a country entangled in a violent web of corruption and desperation.

Riva, the charismatic title character played by Patsha Bay Mukuna, returns to his native Congo after a ten year absence with a stolen shipment of fuel and a cocky sense of newfound wealth. But bloodthirsty gangsters, who are bent on reclaiming their property, are hot on his trail. What unfolds is a compelling tale of a developing country entangled in corruption and sometimes brutal violence.

The film, which just won Best African Movie at this year’s MTV Movie Awards, manages to combine the similar pulsating energy of Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles’s ‘City of God’ with a realistic grasp of underworld pathology that recalls Hype Willams’ debut, ‘Belly’.

“My challenge was to push to the limit as far as possible, in terms of being true to the society,” said first-time director Djo Tunda wa Munga (above center, with actors). “Which means talking about the real issues, the prostitution, the sexuality and also the violence.” We chatted with Munga recently about the challenges and triumphs of making a film (which opens in theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Portland on June 10) set in his native country.[Read More]

By DJhistory.com

Loleatta was born in Chicago in 1946 and, like most of her peers, began singing in gospel groups before striking out on a solo career through GRC subsidiary Aware. In 1976, she was signed to the Norman Harris-helmed Gold Mind, an offshoot of Salsoul Records, where she recorded all of her best work, usually working with Harris. Although she made a number of classic recordings it was through her live work that Loleatta excelled, often performing at the gay clubs of the era, like the Paradise Garage and Better Days. Her vocal were later sampled by Black Box for their controversial hit ‘Ride On Time’. Loleatta died on March 21st after a short period of ill health.

Tell me how you got signed to Salsoul?

OK, I was signed to GRC first, out of Atlanta Georgia, on Aware. The owner of the record company went to jail.[Read More]

By Amre Klimchak- NY Press

It`s not as easy as it used to be to run a bar on the Lower East Side. Between the growing chorus of noise complaints from residents and the new intensity of the NYPD’s crackdowns on underage drinking, at least one bar owner who used to make money hand over fist in the neighborhood is looking elsewhere for sustainable businesses. If you ask Rob Shamlian, one of the area’s most voracious entrepreneurs, he’ll immediately expound on the problems he’s encountered as the owner of Fat Baby, Spitzer’s Corner, Los Feliz and Mason Dixon. [Read More]