chrestomathy \kres-TOM-uh-thee\, noun: A collection of selected literary passages. Chrestomathy literally means "useful to learn" in Greek, from the roots chres- meaning "to use" and math- meaning "to learn." Phone Stack A game played at either a meal or in a group setting. When at a meal, and everyone is on their phones, grab them and stack them face down in the center of the table. First to pick up their phone, pays the bill for all. If no one grabs it, everyone pays their part. When in a group setting, grab the phones and stack them. Whoever grabs their ...

cumulus \KYOO-myuh-luhs\, noun: A heap; pile. A cloud of a class characterized by dense individual elements in the form of puffs, mounds, or towers, with flat bases and tops that often resemble cauliflower. Cumulus stems from the Neo-Latin word meaning "heap, pile." It was first used to describe clouds in the early 1800s. Stack of Shame A growing collection of video games that have yet to be opened and played, likely due to the fact that so many good games come out and the owner simply cannot keep up. This is most commonly an issue for professionals in the video ...

Advocate: Man who beheaded Canadian bus passenger believed victim was an alien – Washington Post Morgan Stanley to face the music – Castanet.net Alan Doyle makes a ‘Great Big’ noise with [yellow tail] to help Canadian … – Sacramento Bee Merritt Mountain Music Fest a bust – Castanet.net Check Out Reviews of Slash, Six Feet [...]

Whoever Brian Stefan is, thank you. So here’s the distillation of my “post-punk” anthology of Southern California bands. I’m having a hard time finding a truly accurate title for the comp, since many of the bands are from the county but from places with very particular scenes, like Pasadena and Long Beach, and a few are from outside of the city altogether (but within a two-hour drive). And to call these “post-punk” bands is not entirely accurate; many of them are “new wave,” “darkwave,” “deathrock,” “art rock,” even something like “freak folk.” Oh well. We strongly recommend reading ...

Recommended Show: TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012 MITTEN @ KNITTING FACTORY 361 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 $12, 7:30PM We can't imagine a Tuesday night this awesome in any other city besides New York. Tons of great shows tonight, but we're settling on Mitten at the Knit. Thought So @ Cake Shop Garbage @ Webster Hall Jonwayne @ Cameo Gallery Gossip, Ssion, & Creep @ Terminal 5 Weasel Walter & Peter Evans @ Zebulon Ketamines & Numerators @ Mercury Lounge Herman Dune& The Fisherman 3 @ Union Pool Wallpaper. & Gordon Voidwell @ Bowery Ballroom Hot Water Music & Iron Chic @ Gramercy Theatre Hot Tub Paranoia, Depths, & Big Ups @ Big Snow Jack ...

T-Boz might be forced to travel in the passenger side of her best friend's ride

Going to Stag & Dagger in Glasgow on Saturday? You'll probably want to know who is playing, at what venue, and when then, won't you? Here's a handy dandy guide, with my favourites highlighted in  red and everything. SATURDAY 19 MAY O2 ABC1  19:15-20:00 White Denim 20:15-21:00 The Phantom Band 21:15-22:15 Django Django  O2 ABC2  18:00-18:30 Passenger 18:45-19:15 A Plastic Rose 19:30-20:00 To Kill A King 20:30-21:00 The New Piccadillys 21:30-22:15 Vigo Thieves CCA 5  19:00-19:30 Chasing Owls 20:00-20 ...

Passenger – Philadelphia The style of this post is totally stolen from You Hear That.

Tuesday night in the city: ► Singer, multi-instrumentalist and looping wizard Emily Wells visits Largo behind her new album “Mama,” which was recorded on a horse ranch in Topanga. That’s her homemade video for “Passenger,” above. Appearing with her: The Portland Cello Project, whose own new album “Homage” features arrangements of hip-hop songs. No kidding: [...]

Philadelphia soft-focus rock project the Interest Group is the new group headed up by Yohsuke Araki, who also is a member of local bands Bananas Symphony and the recently disbanded Blackhawks . "The Boys and the Girls" is one of two songs on the Interest Group's Bandcamp page ; head here to check out the other one, "The Passenger" . The Interest Group: "The Boys and the Girls" on Bandcamp

From Chad McDonald: Day 8.  Our second day off on this tour. Yesterday was Cinco De Mayo so we got our celebraish’ on.  We ate lunch at a Mexican Restaurant in Athens, Georgia called Taqueria El Sol De - I would recommend it, good green sauce.  The restaurant’s building was connected to a gas station and had previously been a waffle house.  A fine lineage for a mexican restaurant.  Had a few $3 dollar margaritas to start the Cinco celebraish’ off right.  After lunch we went to a Goodwill and bought some sombreros and breezy Hawaiian shirts.  Showed up to ...

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , RPM , News Today, Oh Boy! , New Music , New Releases Courtesy of Bjork After canceling a string of headlining performances in South America last month, Bjork has been forced to pull her appearances at Spain's Primavera Sound and Portugal's Optimus Primavera Sound, due to further issues with her vocal chords. No word as to her replacement -- we're hoping for Kraftwerk . [ ConsequenceOfSound ] Check out two new Four Tet tracks from his forthcoming 12" " Jupiters " b/w " Ocoras ." Pretty rad. Four Tet's also curating this Fugazi-inspired Brixton all-nighter with Caribou, Pearson Sound, Pangea ...

Ever the hotbed for up and coming bluegrass bands, there’s a new Colorado string band to pull up on your radar screen – Head for the Hills . This quartet of high country pickers have made a splash around bluegrass circles in recent years, having recorded their debut at Billy Nershi’s Colorado studio with Drew Emmitt behind the boards producing, being selected as a SXSW Critic’s Pick Must-See by the Austin Statesmen and Colorado’s best bluegrass band two years running by Denver’s the Westword and getting invited to play their first Telluride Bluegrass Festival this summer. We ...

Camden Crawl (4-6 May '12) // Words: Saam Das Building on a relatively successful day one of the 2012 Camden Crawl , things got off to less of a joyous start on the Sunday as not one but two passenger emergency alarms on a Northern Line tube scuppered my attempts to catch a low-key Charli XCX performance in the Crawl's media hub. But with plenty of other bands to see over the day, that was only a minor setback. For chat about those bands and an overview of the festival, keep reading below. Heading over to The Wheelbarrow for their afternoon ...

Grimes ,  Diplo , and  Skrillex  are going on tour together. Across Canada. On a train. The Full Flex Express tour, which also includes Pretty Lights, KOAN Sound, and Tokimonsta, will hit cities across Canada this July. Between cities, all of the artists will travel on a private passenger train together. Each stop will feature multiple stages in a "festival event," according to a press release. The concept was inspired by the 1970 Festival Express tour featuring Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and the Band traveling across Canada, as well as last year's Railroad Revival tour featuring Mumford and Sons and ...