Live Preview: Pitchfork Music Festival 2009

Today I’ll be heading to Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park, Chicago. This will be my third time covering the festival. This will also be a year where there are multiple interesting sub-plots swirling beneath the overall event of enjoying some of the best indie-rock, hip hop and electronica that the world has to offer. It [...]

It Feels Good to Be Fooled

I’m still a little irritated and confused at yesterday’s post about the implications of “pure image-making” with the Live Johnny Cash recording. And when I read this NY Times science article about how magic is being used by neurologists and psychologists to further research in the study of perception, I began to wonder if Johnny [...]