The News Review:
- Studies say we’re often drowsy at work. Here’s how professiona…
- From Jazz to Fusion Late and Live in Madrid
- Annie Nightingale: angst and decks
Studies say we’re often drowsy at work. Here’s how professiona…
News & Observer – Apr 20, 2008
If the boss doesn’t mind turn up the volume maybe even dance. “It’s definitely really important to listen to active interesting music” Richardson said. She counts on industrial hard rock and punk music to keep her alert. Sometimes workers wear headphones she said but other times the music blasts through the bakery. Their boss expects it. Claudia Cooper 37 owner of Guglhupf said that along with coffee loud music is crucial for bakers. “We’re talking Jimi Hendrix kind of loud” she said.
From Jazz to Fusion Late and Live in Madrid
New York Times – Apr 20, 2008
It’s helped that city officials seem to have eased some of the restrictions and aggressive monitoring of clubs. Manrique the music critic of the daily El País and the Spanish Broadcasting Corporation said: “It’s really still just beginning to take off. While many new places are finding their way the old standards are adding performances and drawing larger audiences. ”“Madrid is an easy place to get hooked on live music” says Curro González an owner of La Boca del Lobo as the local band Funk Attack clears the stage after midnight on a recent Thursday evening and the crowd of about 100 drifts toward the bar in this compact multilevel club. He says the live-music scene works because so many of the people involved are industry insiders — producers agents music critics and of course the artists themselves — and their enthusiasm doesn’t disappear when they leave the office. “People do this because they love the music” says Mr… But given the club’s small size these concerts get no promotion and are more or less a gift to Costello customers Dani Marín says. Around the corner is El Sol a joint whose most commonly applied modifier is “mythic. ” Open since 1979 it was the backdrop for much of the famous movida madrileña the post-Franco punk-rock pop-culture explosion that gave the world. Even today the large basement club — with it’s all-white décor glowing with pink neon tubes — still feels like an underground carnival.
Annie Nightingale: angst and decks
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 20, 2008
) Presumably her listeners can stay up only with the help of drugs? ‘Yeah but it wouldn’t make any difference. This music isn’t particularly about that.