Skrillex - First Of The Year (Equinox)

 

Today we offer something completely different when we look back at last week's events when the beat pounds heavily at Arenan, Stockholm. When I was booked in for this and heard the that there would be a band called Skrillex I thought that now it will be a danceband (classic old Swedish), o god, this will be fun! Haha.

With danceband I am thinking about bands like "Vikingarna", "Lasse Stefanz" among others, the name Skrillex reminds actually very much about it.

You know, big shirt collars, color uniformity, sequins and a pasted grin. Songs of love and everything sounds exactly the same. Boring in other words. But here I was deceiving myself completely, Skrillex who is a DJ who creates music, a style known as Dub step. But during the day, I basically learn all about him, people thought I was a bit odd when I was not aware of him and the style, but what the hell, i can not know everything, but i do now :-) What have I learned of this, yes you should not judge the band by name.

That was how I thought it would be like:)

Sonny John Moore age 23, is an American electronic dance music producer who is widely known by his professional name Skrillex. Moore is also a former frontman for the American emo band From First to Last. Now he is one most acclaimed American dance producer and become a style icon with his geeky glasses and a sprawling gothic thatch.

A lip-shaped lighting rig and a table with DJ gear on, that's it!, well, there were also lots of subs that covered the entire stage floor, that's allot for a venue like this. Once they started playing, the bass was the foundation of every song, and hell of a thousand, what a pressure it got. A totally sold-out Arenan were dancing so stuff a floor down was vibrating, had dinner at Klubben which is located slightly below Arenan, where the things was swaying like the lightingtross, including the speakers in the ceiling tossing fresh, almost as if they were falling down. It was quite frightful. Bass pressure created a very interesting squeaking sound that reminded some of a neighbour's "out of tune" bed in action, kept the beat :-)

Regarding the gig, well this is not my cup of coffee, but can say that it was a pretty fun experience.

Photo: Emma Svensson

Flux Pavilion in Action

STA KÖL?

Thetania in Action

To compensate it up a little musical terms, we take two songs on a board today!

Todays tune "First of the Year (Equinox)" was released as the first single from Skrillex's third EP, More Monsters and Sprites. The exclamations used in the song that say "Call 911 now!" are from a video on YouTube of an irate woman yelling at a crowd of which she presumes to be illegal photographers.

 Todays 2:nd tune "Get Up" is a track written and recorded by Korn that appears on their tenth studio album, The Path of Totality. It was released as the album's lead single on May 6, 2011. Since its release it has sold over 200,000 downloads in the United States. It was debuted live at Coachella with Skrillex. "Get Up!" is Korn's most successful single since 2007's "Evolution".



More info @

Official Korn Web
Official Skrillex Web
Official Skrillex Facebook
Girls That Look Like Skrillex

Listen to ”Skrillex - First Of The Year (Equinox)" on Spotify here!

Listen to ”Korn Feat. Skrillex - Get Up" on Spotify here!

Follow tuneoftheday.blogspot.com on Spotify here!

Not Quite So Bad

It won't be quite so bad as the picture suggests. But if you are a night owl at UCLA and use the 405, you may have a problem:

The northbound 405 Freeway will be closed between Getty Center Drive and Ventura Boulevard for construction starting Tuesday night. Crews will be reconstructing the Mulholland Bridge. Ramps were expected to close as early as 7 p.m. and freeway lanes may close as early as 10 p.m. The closure could continue for several nights.

The southbound side was expected to be closed in the same area beginning Saturday night.

Source: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=resources/traffic&id=8447786

Testimony in Sacramento Coming Up on UC Pension

Two UC officials will be testifying tomorrow about the UC pension at a legislative hearing on the governor's public pension proposals.

We don't know what the UC reps will be saying. Hopefully, it will be a polite version of "no thanks; we have our own plan."

If more info becomes available, we will post it. Meanwhile, the hearing agenda can be found below.

Pension Agenda

Waiting for the Plans on Conceptual Hotel-Conference Center

Just to keep our blog readers up to date:

The UCLA Faculty Association has filed a formal request for the business plan of the proposed hotel/conference center which so far has not been released. Since at the scoping meeting on the project, the architectural plans were described by the campus architect as merely "conceptual," the Faculty Association is concerned that the business plan may also be in a preliminary stage.

In any event, below is the formal request and acknowledgment from the university official handling such matters.

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Faculty Association at UCLA

P.O. Box 33336

Granada Hills, CA 91394-3336

Nov. 11, 2011

Gene Block

Chancellor, UCLA

2147 Murphy Hall

Campus 140501

Dear Chancellor Block,

On behalf of Dwight Read, Chair of the Faculty Association at UCLA, and the Executive Board, I am making a request for information as part of the California Public Records Act, Information Practices Act of 1977.

Please send a copy of the business plan for the proposed $152 million conference and guest center to be built at UCLA to the FA as soon as possible.

The FA understands that the business plan has not yet been submitted to the Regents for a vote early next year, but that is even more reason for the faculty to see what the industry experts have said about the proposed conference center before the Regents take a vote.

The address is:

Faculty Association at UCLA

P.O. Box 33336

Granada Hills, CA 91394-3336

Or email the plan to: ucfa@earthlink.net

Thank you for your attention to this request.

Sincerely,

Susan Gallick

Executive Director

Faculty Association at UCLA

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From: UCLA Public Records

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:13:11 -0800

To: FA at UCLA

Subject: PRR 2012-139: Acknowledgement of Your Public Records Request

Dear Ms. Gallick,

This letter is to acknowledge your request under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) dated November 11, 2011 for the business plan for the proposed UCLA Conference and Guest Center.

Records Management & Information Practices (RMIP) is notifying the appropriate UCLA offices of your request and will identify, review, and release all responsive documents in accordance with relevant law and University policy.

Under the CPRA, Government Code Section 6253(b), UCLA may charge for reproduction costs and/or programming services. If the cost is anticipated to be greater than $50.00 or the amount you authorized in your original request, we will contact you to confirm your continued interest in receiving the records and your agreement to pay the charges. Payment is due prior to the release of the records.

Due to our current volume of public records requests, we anticipate it may take up to eight weeks to fulfill this request. If we are unable to close your request within this time, we will provide you with a status update by January 9, 2012. Although the University will be closed from December 22, 2011 – January 3, 2012, RMIP will strive to complete your request without additional delay. We thank you in advance for your understanding should our processing be delayed.

Should you have any questions regarding the status of your request, please call or email UCLAPublicRecords@finance.ucla.edu and reference the request number above in the subject line.

Sincerely,

Aimee M. Felker,

Director Records Management & Information Practices,

Corporate Financial Services

Editorial Note: Eight weeks should be long enough to gin up a business plan, if there isn’t one, as opposed to a “conceptual” plan.

So we are waiting:

CSS - City Grrrl (ft. Ssion)

 

CSS recently visited Sweden on their current tour. CSS, I have actually got acquainted with them earlier, can not remember if it was on the Accelerator festival or was it on the Way Out West festival, anyway. The band actually has a Swedish bassist on tour and made a nice impression during the day, when it was time to get up on stage after the Swedish "Du Pacque" warmed up, it was in full gear right away, the singer "Lovefoxxx" stepped up with a big black wig and sparkly arm/hand rhinestones, big pants that after a while were torn off as well as the wig. During the show she lost more clothes and in the end she just stood there in the top and a short pants. Not that the music spoke to me, but the performance was great, live they are very good at.

CSS is a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo. CSS formed in September 2003, consisting of a group of friends. The band was labeled as part of the explosion of the New Rave scene. Their songs are in both English and Portuguese. CSS is an abbreviation for Cansei de Ser Sexy, literally "I've grown tired of being sexy" in Portuguese. (Their name was taken from a reported quote by Beyoncé, who allegedly declared that she was "tired of being sexy".)

Todays tune "City Grrrl" is taken from the bands latest and third studio album "La Liberación"



More info @

Official CSS Web
Official CSS MySpace
Official Du Pacque Web

Listen to ”CSS - City Grrrl (ft. Ssion)" on Spotify here!

Follow tuneoftheday.blogspot.com on Spotify here!

Update: Brown on Pepper

Jerry Brown says he's 'seriously concerned' about protest response (excerpt)

Capital Alert blog of Sacramento Bee 11-28-11

..."I am seriously concerned that the rules governing the use of force, in particular the use of pepper spray, are not well understood in the context of civil disobedience and various forms of public protest," Brown wrote to Paul Cappitelli, director of the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. "The recent 'occupation' protests in cities throughout California and on campuses of the University of California underscore the urgency of articulating guidelines that are crystal clear and comport with constitutional requirements."

Brown, who returned to California over the weekend after a vacation out of state, had been silent about the pepper spraying of protesters by police at UC Davis and a clash between protesters and police at UC Berkeley…

Full story at: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2011/11/jerry-brown-says-hes-seriously-concerned-about-protest-response.html

In Flames - Delight And Angers

 

In Flames who is out on tour made ​​a stop at Hovet, here in Stockholm. With a nice package of rock bands as Trivium, Ghost, Rise To Remain and Insense. I was obvious that i had to witness this. However, I missed the first 3 bands, including Ghost that I encountered in the corridor on the way down. Dastardly, that was actually the band that I wanted to see, but the times I got was wrong. Well you can not get everything.

Once I got there it was time for Trivium to play, it was ok but a bit boring, a band that not quite get me to be interested. But when it was time for the main act to get on, it became much better, In Flames, which always delivers quality music live and did so this time too, I'm not going on for very long, this time without reference to a excellent report that WeRock colleague "Fredrik Sandberg" has written, read it here!, also take time to read the well-written lines of another colleague "Tomasz Swiesciak" who wrote for the magazine Gaffa, read it here!

Some pictures

Trivium

Piff & Puff

Todays tune "Delight And Angers" is taken from the bands ninth studio album "A Sense of Purpose"
Enjoy.



Read previous posts by In Flames here on Tune Of The Day.

In Flames - Where Dead Ships Dwell
In Flames - Deliver Us
In Flames - Alias
In Flames - Alias (live) feat Timo Raisanen
In Flames - Mirrors Truth
In Flames - Mirrors Truth - Okt
In Flames - Artifacts Of Black Rain
In Flames - Take This Life
In Flames - Only For Weak
In Flames - Sonisphere

Setlist from Hovet:

01 Sounds of a Playground Fading
02 Deliver Us
03 All for Me
04 Trigger
05 Alias
06 Colony
07 Swim
08 The Hive
09 The Quiet Place
10 Where the Dead Ships Dwell
11 Fear Is the Weakness
12 Come Clarity
13 Ropes
14 Darker Times
15 Liberation
16 Only for the Weak
17 Delight and Angers
18 Cloud Connected
19 The Mirror's Truth
20 Take This Life

More info @

Official In Flames Web

Listen to ”In Flames - Delight and Angers" on Spotify here!

Follow tuneoftheday.blogspot.com on Spotify here!

Listen to Audio from Regents Meeting of Nov. 28, 2011 Until Cut Off

Below you can listen to the audio of the rescheduled Regents meeting of earlier today. The meeting was a teleconference at various campus sites. It consisted mainly of the public comment session. See earlier postings on this blog for further information.

After the public comments session, the Regents attempted to discuss the UC budget. At that point, the audio went on and off, apparently in response to demonstrations. There was a statement that the room at UC-San Francisco had been cleared. The audio finally cut off entirely about 11:45 AM.

Update: A copy of the Regents audio that covers the session after the cut off recorded above has been requested. It will be posted when received.

News accounts of the meeting are at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-regents-20111129,0,7181269.story [Student protests disrupt meeting of UC regents] and http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/protesters-demand-uc-regents-raises/ [Despite Angry Protests, UC Regents Raise Administrators' Salaries]

Actions taken by the Regents on state-funded compensation are at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov11/c3b.pdf

Actions taken on nonstate-funded compensation are at

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov11/c3a.pdf

The Regents approved a budget that ostensibly avoids a tuition increase (but is unlikely to be what the state gives us):

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov11/f12p.pdf

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov11/f12.pdf

UC-Berkeley Police Statement

The union representing UC-Berkeley police released a statement to the news media this morning, apparently timed for the rescheduled Regents meeting. It appeared in Political Blotter (link below).

It is our hope that this letter will help open the door to a better understanding between UC Berkeley police and the University community. The UC Berkeley Police Officers’ Association, representing approximately 64 campus police officers, understands your frustration over massive tuition hikes and budget cuts, and we fully support your right to peacefully protest to bring about change. It was not our decision to engage campus protesters on November 9th. We are now faced with “managing” the results of years of poor budget planning. Please know we are not your enemy.

A video clip gone viral does not depict the full story or the facts leading up to an actual incident. Multiple dispersal requests were given in the days and hours before the tent removal operation. Not caught on most videos were scenes of protesters hitting, pushing, grabbing officers’ batons, fighting back with backpacks and skateboards.

The UC Berkeley Police Officers’ Association supports a full investigation of the events that took place on November 9th, as well as a full review of University policing policies. That being said, we do not abrogate responsibility for the events on November 9th. UC Berkeley police officers want to better serve students and faculty members and we welcome ideas for how we can have a better discourse to avoid future confrontations. We are open to all suggestions on ways we can improve our ability to better protect and serve the UC Berkeley community. As your campus police, we also have safety concerns that we ask you to consider.

Society has changed significantly since 1964 when peaceful UC Berkeley student protesters organized a 10-hour sit-in in Sproul Hall and 10,000 students held a police car at bay – spawning change and the birth of our nation’s Free Speech Movement. However proud we can all be of UC Berkeley’s contribution to free speech in America, no one can deny this: Our society in 2011 has become an extremely more violent place to live and to protect. No one understands the effects of this violence more than those of us in law enforcement.

Disgruntled citizens in this day and age express their frustrations in far more violent ways – with knives, with guns and sometimes by killing innocent bystanders. Peaceful protests can, in an instant, turn into violent rioting, ending in destruction of property or worse – the loss of lives. Police officers and innocent citizens everywhere are being injured, and in some instances, killed. In the back of every police officer’s mind is this: How can I control this incident so it does not escalate into a seriously violent, potentially life-threatening event for all involved?

While students were calling the protest “non-violent,” the events on November 9th were anything but nonviolent. In previous student Occupy protests, protesters hit police officers with chairs, bricks, spitting, and using homemade plywood shields as weapons – with documented injuries to officers. At a moment’s notice, the November 9th protest at UC Berkeley could have turned even more violent than it did, much like the Occupy protests in neighboring Oakland.

Please understand that by no means are we interested in making excuses. We are only hoping that you will understand and consider the frustrations we experience daily as public safety officers sworn to uphold the law. It is our job to keep protests from escalating into violent events where lives could be endangered.

We sincerely ask for your help in doing this. Like you, we have been victims to budget cuts that affect our children and our families in real ways. We, too, hold on to the dream of being able to afford to send our children and grandchildren to a four-year university. Like you, we understand and fully support the need for change and a redirection of priorities.

To students and faculty: As 10,000 students surrounded a police car on campus in 1964, protesters passed the hat to help pay for repairs to the police car as a show of respect. Please peacefully respect the rules we are required to enforce – for all our safety and protection. Please respect the requests of our officers as we try to do our jobs.

To the University Administration and Regents: Please don’t ask us to enforce your policies then refuse to stand by us when we do. Your students, your faculty and your police – we need you to provide real leadership. We openly and honestly ask the UC Berkeley community for the opportunity to move forward together, peacefully and without further incident – in better understanding of one another. Thank you for listening.

Reproduced in http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/28/uc-berkeley-police-speak-out-on-occupy-protest/

Regents Expected to Approve Rise in Employee Pension Contributions Today

The Regents at their postponed meeting today (11-28-11) are expected to raise the employee contribution to the pension plan to 6.5% as of 2013-14. See the chart below:

The full item is at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov11/f5.pdf

This will not be the last increase for either the employee or the employer contribution. No help from the state in sight. Au contraire:

Rival Sons - Soul

 

Last Thursday, there were music all the way. First release party with Hong Faux, which I talked about yesterday, great to hear them play the new songs live. Unfortunately I did not have the time to stay for the entire gig, was so much in a hurry to Strand to witness the Rival Sons Live, which was something I had really been looking forward to.

On the way there with two buddies, Jojje and Petri (Supralunar), we passed the car to lay off the new Hong Faux vinyl and the new t-shirt that was purchased during the release party, vinyl was however a gift from Björn, in the band as a thank you for the photos in the record inlay, funny as hell that they wanted to use them for the record.. Once we got to the car so I noticed a yellow note on car window ... yikes!

Represses the yellow note and gears up for gig instead, once I entered the Strand, Jeff and The Brotherhood's was playing the last song, time to snap a few pictures, but didn't not have the time really to form an idea of how it was. Before Jeff was playing there was a Swedish band called them self as "Flykten" would have been fun to hear live, will try to watch them some other time, the litte Ive heard, it sounds very interesting.

Then it was time for the main act to get on and the curtain was opened, a wonderful feeling runned through the body, this will be so good. Certain it was so, awsome how good the gig became, what a retroactive feeling, holy moses. We know already that the band is great on record, but they are awsome great live, what emotions they could create, its incredible. The singer sings with incredible feeling and his vocal work is magnificent. Even musicians are tight and well played, the contact between each other is clear as a bell, which can be seen when the jam sessions takes place and when they joke with each other. This was simply a awsome gig even though I missed some songs which I would have liked that were on the set list, as "Face of light" which is one of the best track on the Pressure of Time. But received in other hand "Soul", this song is taken from the EP, which was performed in a completely magical way and it felt like I was going to heaven, shit what I shivered. After the gig the band invited up to hang around and drink some beer and talk about this, which we of course did.

Here is some pictures from the show!

More pictures will be added later on the facebook!

Todays tune "Soul" is taken from their selftitled ep.

Rivals Sons - 'Soul' Live At The Bob Bauer Studio Detroit



Rock Your Style Files



More info @

Official Rival Sons Web

Listen to ”Rival Sons - Soul" on Spotify here!

Follow tuneoftheday.blogspot.com on Spotify here!

UC students to protest at regents meeting (tomorrow)

Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury-News 11-26-11

Student protesters with the Occupy movement will converge on four UC campuses Monday morning to vent their fury at a meeting of the regents, with demonstrators in Davis attempting a campuswide shutdown. The meeting, rescheduled after cancellation earlier this month because of threats of violence and vandalism, now includes a one-hour slot for student voices and other public comment, increased from the usual 20 minutes. The regents will be spread out in four locations -- San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles, and Merced -- and conduct the meeting by teleconference…

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_19419961

Above: In happier days (1960), UC President Clark Kerr meets with Regents committee to select site for UC-Irvine.

Well, that didn't work out too well, did it?

Update from yesterday's post:

That was then: