Category Archives: Music

On copyright infringement.

12/04/2008 kirsch 2 Comments

I got this pleasant email today:

Dear marcoskirsch,

This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a notification by Sony/BMG claiming that this material is infringing:

Fobia @ SXSW – No eres yo / El Diablo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGTxHhTH_IQ

Please Note: Accounts determined to be repeat infringers may be terminated. To avoid this, please delete any videos to which you do not own the rights, and refrain from uploading infringing videos. For more information, please visit our Copyright Tips guide.

If you believe this claim was made in error, or that you are otherwise authorized to use the content at issue, you may file a counter notice. Information about this process is here.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Content Identification Team

Please indulge me by reading my rant below:

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Around the world, Music

Oasis @ Monterrey

12/02/2008 kirsch Leave a comment

I knew English rock band Oasis was going to play at the Arena Monterrey on the same weekend of my trip. I also knew tickets were sold out quickly and scalpers were charging outrageous sums of money, devaluated peso nonwithstanding.

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Music

Café Tacvba

11/25/2008 kirsch Leave a comment

CIMG1136 — Café Tacvba at Stubb's in Austin, TX

One of my favorite bands and by far the band I’ve seen live the most (either seven or eight times) played at Stubb’s last Sunday. Almost three hours of high energy music including many songs from their latest albumSiNo.

Good times. I have posted a few photos at The MKX® Photo Gallery and of course you can see the obligatory crappy YouTube webcam videos below (follow the Read More link). Enjoy!

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Music

Matisyahu in Austin

11/12/2008 kirsch Leave a comment

Matisyahu at Stubb's in Austin TX — Matisyahu at Stubb's

Last night I attended a concert by chassidic reggae sensation Matisyahu. Ironically, the show was at a decidedly non-kosher place: Stubb’s Bar-B-Q. Love their chopped brisket sandwiches.

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Austin nights, Music

Austin City Limits

09/30/2008 kirsch 2 Comments

CIMG0810 — Don Chingón wearing his $9 USD Wal-Mart hunting hat. Zero sunburn baby!

This past weekend I attended the Austin City Limits Music Festival. As a revenge act for not going last year I got me a nice 3 day pass; and most of my local friends decided to go as well. It was both a lot of fun and extremely tiring. These festivals aren’t easy on an old guy like me. I was expecting a lot of people to stay over at my place during the weekend but at the end it was only Nathan, Sarai, Mindy, and Jill. Nathan is a wuss and bailed out on day three. On the other end of the spectrum, Mindy and Jill are total warriors, doing all three days early in the morning followed by downtown partying, plus one all-nighter on Saturday and the drive back to Houston on Sunday night. Respect. Bernardo Dychter, Baruch Chollow (whom I hadn’t seen in a looong time), and Alex were in town as well.

More info, photos, and a video if you keep reading!

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Music

All U Need is Mosh

08/16/2008 kirsch 1 Comment

Through the magic that is MySpace (or better said: the only thing it’s good for) I found out that Plastilina Mosh was coming to town for a spur-of-the-moment-half-improvised concert/CD release party

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Falafel and more, Music

Shlomo Artzi

07/31/2008 kirsch 1 Comment

I keep an ever shrinking list of musicians I’d like to see perform live at some point. Last month I was able to check an important one off: Shlomo Artzi. I’ve been wanting to see him in concert ever since the kibbutz days. Back then I would listen to Yareah over and over and over and over on my Sony Sports Walkman.

In any case… Barak, Amit, Leon, and I got tickets to see his concert at HaRatzif, an old train station just outside of the Old City of Jerusalem. The concert lasted about two and a half hours and there were zero t-shirts for sale. Zero! I don’t get it.

But it was great.

Photographic and video proof below:

Music

Cerati + Waters

03/21/2008 kirsch 1 Comment

No, my dear reader, your eyes are not deceiving you.

According to the Argentinian edition of Rolling Stone magazine, musical genius Gustavo Cerati recently recorded a song with Pink Floyd‘s former bassist (and also musical genius) Roger Waters for the non-profit Fundación Alas.

Read the original articles here and here, and express yor feeling in the comments. Thanks to Xavier “el viejo” Gonzalez for the news.

Austin nights, Music

South by Southwest 2008

03/16/2008 kirsch Leave a comment

It’s been a rough week. The SXSW Music festival started on Wednesday and for four days in a row I endured the trip downtown and the concerts and the partying. I know, it’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. Nathan came over from Dallas for the whole thing. A bunch of the local usual suspects were here too. Moi and Beto joined us for a last day of all-Japanese rock.

If you’ve never been to SXSW, you should go. It’s by far the largest of the two big music festivals in town (the other being the Zilker park based ACL) with some 1,400 bands from the whole world spread over all of downtown Austin. Last year sadly I couldn’t attend.

We saw some cool bands, some known (to me) and some new: Fobia, Moby, Sussie4, Presidents of the United States of America, just to name a few.

Some photos and shaky digicam YouTube-quality videos I took embedded below (or go to The MKX® Photo Central). Enjoy!