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Been listening to this mix a lot over the past month. My distaste for Björk is endless, but the remix he uses here works really, really well. Damn!

Phaseone – Dec 2010 Mix by PHASEONE

A few beers, boredom, and frustration with the lack of a mobile site for this weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival led me to hack up a quick mobile-friendly version of the schedule. It works for all iPhones and Android-based phones. If you save it to your iPhone home screen, you can use it offline (a bonus considering how over-taxed the AT&T network is during the festival).

See the mobile-friendly schedule – http://d-struct.org/projects/p4k2k10/

While digging through some boxes full of old papers, I found this leaflet from a Godspeed You! Black Emperor show in Detroit, circa 2001.

The reverse side:

But what a song it is.

My first ever “real” concert was Nine Inch Nails at the Palace of Auburn Hills in 2000. The opening act was A Perfect Circle. I was only 16 and had never in my life seen such a cross section of strangely dressed folk. Seeing a grown man wearing nothing but a full-body fishnet suit and Doc Martens was a defining moment of my teenage years.

The band’s output lately has been top-notch. Ghosts I-IV and The Slip are fantastic albums. Their embrace of the Internet is a model for other bands. This video (on Vimeo to boot!) from the band reminds me of all the reasons why I loved that concert 9 years ago. Be sure to click through and view in HD and fullscreen.