#the finberg thing

[clouds-of-wings]

Sometimes I'm happy that every time something horrific comes out about a metal band, it's never one of my faves.

Then I remember that most of my faves have like 5 fans including the singer's grandma, and that I probably wouldn't know if they were terrible people because no one would write about it and for the most part I don't know them personally.

[bandcampsnoop]

6/19/21.

One song flexi-discs are not usually my thing.  I did buy Parkay Quarts “Hey Bug” last year, and before that Mick Trouble’s “Glad I’m Not Me”, but generally speaking I just need more than one song.

Leisure World Tapes (Phoenix, Arizona) seem to be specializing in the flexi-disc/one song format as several of their label releases are in this format.

The label also appears to the psych/rock sound as this release from Lars Finberg’s The Intelligence shows.  Their newest release from Lenguas Largas (sounds like a cross between Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees) also fits this description as does Beige Banquet. 

I’m guessing that this format lets Leisure World keep up their once-a-month release schedule.

[boaws]

BOAWS Top Records of 2020

There's no need to go on about how the past year was and all the ill effects it bestowed upon us. We all know. And it's no different for myself. So unfortunately I won't be able to dish out the typical top 20 that I like to do, but rather, will leave everyone with the general list. It sucks to have to do that, however I spent the last couple months playing so much catch up with all the things that I had sitting around that I wanted to listen to that at this point I'm of the mindset that I just want to get the ball rolling on 2021. Not guaranteeing anything will change on here, because I've said stuff like that before and it never happens, but as things begin to return to a norm and I can finally develop some type of routine...mixes and writing may actually appear here once again. Who knows? Anyway, still a lot of muck to wade through before any of that happens I'm afraid. As for the list, I don't think there are many surprises on here. The Sweeping Promises album pretty much ruled everything and for good reason. It would have likely landed on the list for the track “Trust” alone, however the whole thing is just incredibly good. Hum's new one Inlet was about as impressive as anyone could have hoped for. Although I didn't really see the whole “desert rock” thing coming. But hey, it fits. Oh yeah, the list...here you all go: 01 - Sweeping Promises - Hunger for a Way Out 02 - Hum - Inlet 03 - Shell of a Shell - Away Team 04 - FACS - Void Moments 05 - Positive No - Kyanite 06 - Narrow Head - 12th House Rock 07 - Cowboy - Wifi on the Prairie 08 - Couch Slut - Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll 09 - Twin Trances - Chains 10 - The Shits - Punishment 11 - David Nance - Staunch Honey 12 - Werewolf Jones - Premium 13 - Lars Finberg - Tinnitus Tonight 14 - Boris & Merzbow - 2R0I2P0 15 - Club Music - Beyond New Beat 16 - Plant Lab - Plant Lab 17 - Other Half - Big Twenty 18 - Mentira - Nada Es Sagrado 19 - Riki - Riki 20 - Watcher – Punishment Stay safe everyone.

[dustedmagazine]

The Intelligence — Un-Psychedelic in Peavy City (Vapid Moonlighting)

Un-Psychedelic in Peavey City by The Intelligence

Ten albums. Twenty years. The hard boxy rants of Lars Finberg’s Intelligence have lasted long enough to turn into something of an institution. Here, a generation into their run, these NW provocateurs refine a ribald variety of proto-punk minimalism that seems to only become wirier and more agile as it ages.

Finberg has stopped drinking since the giddier, jokier Vintage Future, an album which I lauded for mining “a consistent vein of who-gives-a-fuck proto-punk that sneers at the world over scraped pick bass and boxy mechanized beats.” Now dry, though not sober in all senses of the term, he plays devil’s advocate with 12 step platitudes, observing, “Of course, I want to be present, but not that present,” in the very first words of “L’Appel Du Vide.” The song touches on the existential havoc that drinking heavily — and then stopping — can wreak. “I’ve been dry for nine months,” Finberg deadpans. “I’ve been bored for nine months.”

The blood alcohol content of The Intelligence may have dropped, but otherwise, things are reassuringly the same. The band, as before, includes Finberg and Dave Hernandez on guitars, Drew Church on bass and drummer Kanaan Tupper. The sound, too, remains simultaneously arch and aggressive, with stark geometrical rhythms delineated in slashes and bangs, and lacerating lyrics barked in staccato bursts. “Auteur Detour” stutters and rolls asymmetrically, the bass riff terse and rupturing, the guitar refrain, when it comes, nearly lush with pillowy sustain. Finberg, likewise, alternates between bitten off verses and long howling final notes. These songs keep you on pins and needles.

There’s a sly humor, here, too, not just in the sardonic lyrics, but in the musical references. “Lower Rider” borrowers the bass swank and rattling percussion from the War chestnut, while putting up a scrim of post-modern irony. “No Credit/No Problem” satirizes a whole slew of inanities, consumer debt to artistic emptiness, against a sly, slinky vamp of drum and bass.

All the songs are scraped to their minimal essence, tightened to a vibrating pitch and delivered without fuss or drama. The culture puts a premium on novelty and experiment, but here’s another worthy goal: take what you do and get to the bone of it by working at it year after year, album after album.

Jennifer Kelly

[deathica]

Mother Siege

We balanced piles of stones on eaves to keep you away but it did not work.

You still scream through the night, your voice an alarm that cuts open the spring.

When you’re quiet we sleep but dream about you and the times we filled our hands with things you left.

Maybe she is gone one of us might say, then to see that you are back in the morning, meanly turning, taking it in.

We even thought about reflective tape designed to look like eyes of predators after the wooden owl had no effect.

And I am ashamed to say that we’ve begun to talk like they’re all related to you— the one that swoops to attack near the government office,

the family that shits on the neighbor’s car, the tiny ones on the wires, the slouchers atop the poles— to us they are your siblings.

I’ve never joked about rifles before but we started carrying bricks back from walks, sharp rocks, hard plastic, discarded hanger hooks

to block your endeavors. Between the trips I fathom metal spikes—kinds of torture to make you stop screaming at night.

I know it is a song as much as a scream but it melts the walls: let me build.

Still I ran outside and found myself shrieking, how could you? In this world—who would try to make a home?

Keegan Cook Finberg

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Hott MT- Tranceforming

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/2-11/5/17)-

Thursday

MOCA Grand Avenue is having a free (but RSVP) music night with DJDS, DJ Frosty, Wyldeflower and Deejay.fm

At The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, architect Liam Young will be discussing artist Adrián Villar Rojas and his current MOCA exhibition (free)

Daniel Johnston is playing at the Orpheum Theatre

Artist Nao Bustamante will be discussing certain works on a walk-through Hammer Museum's Radical Women exhibit. There will also be music for Latinas Out Loud:Ayer Es Hoy with Sotomayor, Sin Color and Chulita Vinyl Club performing (free)

Ukrainian band DakhaBrakha are playing at The Echo with JJUUJJUU

Friday

Metro Art is screening Agnés Varda's film Mur Murs at Union Station as part of its series of documentaries about Los Angeles (free)

A Giant Dog are playing with Wild Wing and Chief White Lightning at the Bootleg Theater

The Drums are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Methyl Ethel (also Thursday, and Saturday with Slow Hollows)

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Ian Sweet opening

Yaeji is having an EP release party at El Cid

Saturday

Grand Ave Arts All Access has free admission and events planned all day at many of the cultural institutions located on Grand Ave including MOCA and the LA Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Grand Park still has its altars for Día de los Muertos up until Sunday

Wand are playing at the Hi Hat with Lars Finberg and Olga opening

Self Help Graphics are having a Día De Los Muertos Celebration

"Weird Al "Yankovic, John Stamos, Elle King and more will be singing iconic songs from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film as it plays on the Hollywood Bowl movie screen

Dopium.LA is a one night event in Chinatown where artists will create "original pieces to bring the plaza (aka the "Canvas") to life through mixed media, from sculptures, paintings and photographs to video and light projections" plus music, food and drink (free but register)

Ministry are playing at the Hollywood Palladium with Death Grips opening

Saturday and Sunday

ComplexCon's two day event has performers that include N.E.R.D., A-Trak, A$AP Ferg, M.I.A., Young Thug, Gucci Mane, D.J.Khaled; as well as panels, an art exhibition, shopping and more

Sunday

Hott MT are opening for Reptaliens and Fawns of Love at the Echoplex

Artist Ellen Gallagher will be in conversation with LACMA curator Christine Y. Kim at Hauser & Wirth, where Gallagher's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles is currently on view (free but register)

Yelle is playing at Resident with Lewis OfMan opening

The Rock N Roll Flea Market returns to The Regent Theater (free)

[bharatiyamedia-blog]

New instruments for programmable modulation of gene expression

http://tinyurl.com/y2ulap4t Credit score: DARPA Breakthroughs within the science of programmable gene expression impressed DARPA to determine the PReemptive Expression of Protecting Alleles and Response Components (PREPARE) program with the aim of delivering highly effective new defenses in opposition to public well being and nationwide safety threats. DARPA has now chosen 5 groups to develop a variety of latest medical interventions that quickly and reversibly modulate the expression of protecting genes to protect in opposition to acute threats from influenza and ionizing radiation, which could possibly be encountered naturally, occupationally, or by means of a nationwide safety occasion. This system builds from the understanding that the human body has innate defenses in opposition to many forms of well being threats, however that the physique doesn’t all the time activate these defenses shortly or robustly sufficient to dam the worst injury. To enhance current physiological responses, PREPARE applied sciences would supply a programmable functionality to up- or down-regulate gene expression on demand, offering well timed, scalable defenses which might be proportional to anticipated threats. Service members and first responders might administer these interventions previous to menace publicity or therapeutically after publicity to mitigate the chance of hurt or dying. “Researchers working inside the PREPARE program search to enhance charges of survival and restoration in catastrophic eventualities for which dependable and scalable countermeasures do not presently exist,” mentioned Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, the PREPARE program supervisor. For instance, influenza persists as a perennial well being menace regardless of the event of vaccines that assist shield in opposition to predicted strains of circulating virus. The annual problem of growing a brand new vaccine and the burdensome logistics of storing, transporting, and distributing injectable vaccines make various protecting methods fascinating. Three PREPARE groups are pursuing multi-pronged approaches to influenza protection and therapy that use programmable gene modulators to spice up the human physique’s pure defenses in opposition to influenza and likewise weaken the virus’ means to trigger hurt by instantly neutralizing the viral genomes. If profitable, their approaches would doubtlessly shield in opposition to just about all influenza strains—no matter whether or not a virus is newly emergent or has developed drug resistance—and would supply close to instantaneous immunity, in distinction to conventional vaccines. Moreover, the groups are designing their countermeasures in order that they’re easy to ship—for instance, as intranasal sprays—decreasing the logistical problem of defending giant numbers of individuals. A crew led by DNARx LLC, beneath principal investigator Dr. Robert Debs, goals to develop a brand new DNA-encoded gene remedy that helps sufferers battle influenza by boosting the pure immune response and different protecting capabilities of their nasal passages and lungs. A crew led by the Georgia Institute of Expertise, beneath principal investigator Dr. Phil Santangelo, goals to develop novel gene therapies to allow safety in opposition to a variety of influenza strains by delivering mRNA-encoded programmable gene modulators and programmable antivirals to the lungs to spice up host defenses and/or instantly halt viral replication. The crew may even pursue methods to enhance the immune responsiveness and efficacy of present influenza vaccines. A crew led by the College of Massachusetts Medical College, beneath principal investigator Robert Finberg, M.D., goals to determine novel host and viral goal sequences, together with lengthy non-coding RNAs, which can be utilized to spice up host resilience in opposition to influenza. The undertaking will contain performing modern CRISPR-based screens on cultured human cells, figuring out crucial host and viral elements utilizing samples from human analysis topics, and implementing a lung airway mannequin. Different PREPARE groups are pursuing remedies to guard the physique from the consequences of ionizing gamma radiation. In people, radiation poisoning primarily impacts stem cells within the blood and intestine, but current remedies solely assist to regenerate blood cells, and solely with restricted impact. There is no such thing as a risk for prophylactic administration of those medication, and most have to be delivered instantly following radiation publicity to offer any profit. There are not any current medical countermeasures for radiation injury to the intestine. The next two groups are working to generate programmable gene modulators that may shield the blood or intestine, with the potential for prophylactic administration of interventions to service members and first responders going into environments the place the chance of radiation publicity is excessive. A crew led by Columbia College Irving Medical Middle, beneath principal investigator Dr. Harris Wang, goals to develop an orally delivered, programmable gene modulator therapeutic. The multimodal therapy the crew envisions would take maintain in each the intestine and liver, triggering safety and regeneration of intestinal cells, whereas additionally inducing liver cells to supply protecting cues that set off the regeneration of blood cells in bone marrow. A crew led by the College of California, San Francisco, beneath principal investigator Dr. Jonathan Weissman, additionally goals to develop gene therapies to reinforce resilience in opposition to ionizing radiation. The crew’s strategy ought to end in an intravenous or orally obtainable therapy that prompts innate defenses in intestine and blood stem cells for a interval of a number of weeks. All the groups are working towards an finish aim of submitting at the least one product to the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) for regulatory overview as an Investigational New Drug by the top of this system interval. DARPA requires teams to work intently with the FDA all through the four-year program to make sure information generated and experimental protocols meet regulatory requirements. The analysis will equally profit from insights garnered by means of common engagement with bioethicists. One such perception—that everlasting edits to the genome are neither fascinating nor ethically justifiable in in any other case wholesome populations—knowledgeable DARPA’s resolution to mandate that PREPARE applied sciences have solely non permanent and reversible results and don’t alter host main DNA sequences in any means. Groups will obtain this by interfacing solely with the epigenome and transcriptome, the mobile messages that perform DNA’s genetic directions inside cells. “PREPARE displays DARPA’s ‘security first’ strategy to genome enhancing,” Wegrzyn mentioned. “We’re growing instruments that ship the well being and security advantages of modulating genetic expression with out the dangers of everlasting edits to the genome and the potential off-target results they entail.” You can’t get influenza from a flu shot Quotation: New instruments for programmable modulation of gene expression (2019, June 28) retrieved 30 June 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/information/2019-06-tools-programmable-modulation-gene.html This doc is topic to copyright. Aside from any truthful dealing for the aim of personal research or analysis, no half could also be reproduced with out the written permission. The content material is supplied for info functions solely. Source link

[buddyrabrahams]

Stephen Curry has subtle response to NASA inviting him to tour lunar lab

Stephen Curry has created quite the buzz this week by expressing skepticism that the United States ever landed astronauts on the moon, and the Golden State Warriors star appears to be enjoying it.

During a recent appearance on The Ringer’s “Winging It” podcast, Curry and his teammate Andre Iguodala were talking with hosts Vince Carter, Kent Bazemore and Atlanta Hawks digital content coordinator Annie Finberg about a wide variety of topics. One thing led to another and Curry revealed that he does not believe the US has ever sent astronauts to the moon, which is something NASA did six times from 1969 to 1972.

When NASA caught wind of Curry’s conspiracy theory, the organization invited him to tour one of its lunar labs.

“We’d love for Mr. Curry to tour the lunar lab at our Johnson Space Center in Houston, perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets,” NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said, per Benjamin Hoffman of the New York Times. “We have hundreds of pounds of moon rocks stored there, and the Apollo mission control. During his visit, he can see firsthand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we’re doing now to go back to the moon in the coming years, but this time to stay.”

It’s unclear if Curry plans to take NASA up on the invitation, but he had a cryptic response on Twitter Tuesday.

https://t.co/9RrIzk1Kp4

— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) December 11, 2018

As many of you know, we have already been through something similar to this with Boston Celtics superstar Kyrie Irving. It’s hard to tell if these guys are serious or if they just enjoy causing an uproar.

from Larry Brown Sports https://ift.tt/2LaTPX1

[marilynngmesalo]

‘CONSPIRACIES’: Moon landing didn’t happen says Stephen Curry, NASA responds

‘CONSPIRACIES’: Moon landing didn’t happen says Stephen Curry, NASA responds ‘CONSPIRACIES’: Moon landing didn’t happen says Stephen Curry, NASA responds https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Stephen Curry doesn’t believe man has landed on the moon.

And NASA is hoping to convince him otherwise.

On Monday, the Golden State Warriors point guard appeared on the Winging It podcast hosted by NBA stars Vince Carter and Kent Bazemore. During some back and forth banter about dinosaur sounds, Curry suddenly changed the topic about whether anyone from the United States has actually been on the moon.

This week on #WingingItPod, @mrvincecarter15, @24Bazemore, and @AnnieFinberg are joined by @StephenCurry30 and @andre to share stories about A.I. and discuss comparisons between Trae Young and Steph https://t.co/golwAqEeIM

— The Ringer (@ringer) December 10, 2018

“We’ve ever been to the moon?” Curry asked.

“Nope,” said the show’s hosts.

“They’re coming to get us,” Curry responded. “Sorry…I don’t want to start conspiracies.”

According to the New York Times, Annie Finberg, digital content coordinator for the Atlanta Hawks – who also appeared on the podcast – was skeptical and asked Curry to clarify his response. The basketball star reasserted he does not believe the U.S. had landed on the moon, which spawned another conversation about conspiracy theories.

At one point, one of the hosts suggested that famed film director Stanley Kubrick staged the entire moon landing.

Curry’s perplexing beliefs sent the Internet on a craze.

“(The) #NBA is good with social justice and bad at science. First @KyrieIrving is a flat-Earther now Steph Curry doesn’t buy the moon landing,” one person responded on social media.

#NBA is good with social justice and bad at science. First @KyrieIrving is a flat-Earther now Steph Curry doesn't buy the moon landing.

— Cavan Hallman (@CavanHallman) December 10, 2018

“So Steph Curry doesn’t believe there was a moon landing. He hasn’t proven anything other than you don’t have to be smart to play in the @NBA,” chimed another.

So Steph Curry doesn’t believe there was a moon landing 🤔 He hasn’t proven anything other than you don’t have to be smart to play in the @NBA

— Ben © (@cuz614) December 11, 2018

Even retired astronaut Scott Kelly weighed in on the hoopla.

“Steph, so much respect for you, but re the moon landing thing, let’s talk. DM me,” Kelly tweeted.

Steph, so much respect for you, but re the moon landing thing, let’s talk. DM me. https://t.co/BXYxPF4zz1

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) December 11, 2018

It’s been well documented that 12 American astronauts have walked the moon’s surface on six separate instances between 1969 and 1972.

In order to prove Curry’s skepticism, NASA has invited Curry for a tour of its lab.

“We’d love for Mr. Curry to tour the lunar lab at our Johnson Space Centre in Houston, perhaps the next time the Warriors are in town to play the Rockets,” NASA spokesperson Allard Beutel told TMZ.

“We have hundreds of pounds of Moon rocks stored there and the Apollo mission control. During his visit, he can see first-hand what we did 50 years ago, as well as what we’re doing now to go back to the Moon in the coming years, but this time to stay.”

There’s a chance Curry can take up NASA on its offer early next year. Golden State will visit Houston on March 13, 2019.

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[legogole-blog]

Lars Finberg clones himself in "Benevolent Panic" video

Lars Finberg clones himself in “Benevolent Panic” video

The Intelligence’s Lars Finberg has a new video for “Benevolent Panic” from last year’s great solo album, Moonlight Over Bakersfield. Conceived by Lars and directed by Ryan Daniel Browne, a six quadrant split screen divides things into individual instruments with Lars at the helm of everything, but then things change. Continue reading…

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Superet- Pay It Later

Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (3/2-3/4/18)-

Friday

For the second of the Natural History Museum’s First Fridays- Superet are opening for Mondo Cozmo as well as a performance by Shannon Lay. The programming will also include a special tour and a lecture on the upcoming possibilities of the 2028 LA Olympics.

Burger-A-Go-Go is a two night event at 1720 with bands The Coathangers, Death Valley Girls, The Flytraps and Feels performing tonight

Griffith Observatory their free first Friday program All Space Considered, where the curatorial staff discuss astronomy and space science

Ex-Cult are playing at the Lodge Room with Lars Finberg, and The Side Eyes

Cut Chemist is playing a show at the Teragram Ballroom

Saturday

It’s the last weekend to see the Cuba Is, photography exhibition at Annenberg Space for Photography and tonight there is a closing celebration with live music, free Cuban coffee and treats, and extended hours (6-8pm)

Burger-A-Gogo continues its two night event at 1720 with bands Dengue Fever, Winter, Summer Twins and Patsy’s Rats performing tonight

The 2018 LA IPA Fest at Mohawk Bend is a great way to sample beers from over 60 breweries (also Sunday)

Dai Burger and Uniiqu3 are playing at Union Nightclub

Saturday and Sunday

Air + Style Two Day Festival taking place at EXPO Par at LA Coliseum is not cheap ($149 for both days, $79 for one), but there are a lot of good bands playing including Cut Copy, Mura Masa, Twin Peaks, Ex-Cult on Saturday, and Sunday’s lineup includes Phoenix, Gucci Mane, Washed Out, Cloud Nothings, and Phantogram

Sunday

For MOCA’s Artists on Artists series, photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya will be guiding a tour and discussing the recently opened exhibition Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin

Beta Main is hosting the free workshop Mindfulness and Self-Care Tools for Healthy and Joyful Living, facilitated by Victor Narro, Project Director of the UCLA Labor Center, and Laureen Lazarovici, writer and managing editor for the Kaiser Permanente Labor Management Partnership

Tall Juan is playing at The Echo with Gabriella Cohen and The Pantones opening

CLARA-NOVA is playing at The Moroccan Lounge with The Mynabirds and Rainstorm Brother opening

[mrmedia]

Happy Birthday to my good friend Howard Finberg, former director and founder, NewsU, The Poynter Institute! 2007 PODCAST INTERVIEW

In the interest of complete disclosure, I have often worked on assignment for The Poynter Institute and even wrote two white papers and the script for an animated video for NewsU. In fact, I wrote the following Dr. Seuss-inspired rhyme, which Howard himself recorded for NewsU:

You can do it wearing a hat. You can do it with your cat. You can do it at night, And you can do it when you look afright. You can do it when things are slow, Or when you can’t get the creative juices to flow. You can do it when mother’s not there, And you can do it in your underwear.

I love his birthday because it’s the day I get to share that.

https://mrmedia.com/2007/03/howard-finberg-poynter-institute-newsu-org-director-of-interactive-learning-mr-media-radio-interview/