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Entries tagged with: The Growlers
Beach Goth 2015 lineup (Grimes, Ghost, Julian Casablancas, Wanda Jackson, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Camera Obscura, DIIV, more)
The Growlers' fourth annual Beach Goth Festival happens October 24 & 25 at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA. The Growlers play both days, and the lineup also includes Grimes, Die Antwoord, Julian Casablancas + The Voidz, FIDLAR, Camera Obscura, Ghost, Juicy J, Warpaint, DIIV, Touche Amore, Cherry Glazerr, Sir Mix-A-Lot (seriously), Eagles of Death Metal, The Aquabats, Riff Raff, Allah-Las, Del the Funky Homosapien, Subhumans, Wanda Jackson, The Adicts, together PANGEA, Moving Units, My Life With A Thrill Kill Kult, The 188.8.131.52.'s and more. Plus, one of the headliners is still TBA.
Tom Green is hosting it, and Pauly Shore is hosting a rap battle with Riff Raff. There's also Rocky Horror Picture Show Live, roller skating, a time machine, and more.
Tickets are on sale now. Full lineup below...
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Voodoo 2015 lineup & tix (Ozzy Osbourne, Jane's Addiction, Modest Mouse, Giorgio Moroder, Chance the Rapper, more)
New Orleans music festival Voodoo Music Experience returns this year Halloween weekend from October 30 - November 1. The lineup includes Ozzy Osbourne ft. Geezer Butler, Tom Morello & Slash, Jane's Addiction, Modest Mouse, Giorgio Moroder, Chance the Rapper, Florence + the Machine, Babes In Toyland, Jack U (aka Diplo & Skrillex), Gerard Way, Joey Bada$$ & the Soul Rebels, Clutch, The Cult, Fishbone, Title Fight, Duke Dumont, Santigold, Frank Turner, Girl Talk, Hundred Waters, Deadmau5, Third Eye Blind and more. Tickets are on sale now.
Full day-by-day lineup below...
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As mentioned, BrooklynVegan is co-hosting the 2015 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. It's the final day and Sunday's live stream (June 13) starts at 6 PM Eastern. Tonight's schedule includes Robert Plant, Spoon, D'Angelo and the Vanguard, Caribou and more. Before that they're replaying performances from the first three nights. Watch the stream along with the full schedule below.
UPDATE: Stream Bonnaroo 2015 here.
Bonnaroo 2015 is this week with four days of music and comedy from Thursday (6/11) through Sunday (6/14) in Manchester, TN. For those who can't make it, you'll be able to watch many of Bonnaroo's performers right here on BrooklynVegan.com via three different video channels. Live streaming begins Thursday at 7 PM Central (6 PM Eastern) and sets being broadcast over the four days include Courtney Barnett, Against Me!, Belle & Sebastian, My Morning Jacket, Billy Joel, D'Angelo & the Vanguard, Jamie xx, The War on Drugs and many more. Full list of confirmed streaming Bonnaroo performances below.
UPDATE: Stream Bonnaroo 2015 here.
While there won't be any Bonnaroo comedy sets streaming, Comedy Central has put together a Spotify playlist of bits from many of the comedians peforming at the fest this year, including Chris Hardwick, Jeff Ross, Kurt Braunohler, Reggie Watts, Michelle Wolf and more. Stream that below.
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2015 lineup: Jane's Addiction, D'Angelo, L7, NOFX, Wu-Tang, Venom, Ride, American Football, American Nightmare, Converge, Charlatans, Dag Nasty, MANY more
Austin's annual Fun Fun Fun Fest returns in 2015 from November 6-8 at Auditorium Shores, and as usual the lineup is amazing. There's Jane's Addiction (performing Ritual de lo habitual), Gogol Bordello (performing Gypsy Punks), The Dwarves (performing Blood, Guts & Pussy), the first-ever Texas show and only US show of 2015 for '80s metal legends Venom, a reunion from DC hardcore vets Dag Nasty, Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Blood Brothers/Locust side project Head Wound City, D'Angelo, NOFX, American Football, Ride, The Charlatans (UK), Wu-Tang Clan, Schoolboy Q, Grimes, Cheap Trick, Drive Like Jehu, L7, Babes In Toyland, American Nightmare, Converge, Chain of Strength, Desaparecidos, Skinny Puppy, Afrika Bambaataa, Future Islands, Fucked Up, Neon Indian, Hudson Mohawke, Joey Bada$$, Alvvays, Speedy Ortiz, Parquet Courts, Power Trip, La Dispute, Title Fight, Shamir, Mikal Cronin, Viet Cong and many more.
Tickets go on sale today (5/28) at 10 AM CT (11 AM EST). Full lineup and announcement video below.
The lineup for the Dag Nasty reunion is the same one they played the Salad Days show in DC with in 2012: original vocalist Shawn Brown, plus Brian Baker, Roger Marbury and Colin Sears.
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The Growlers, who in March played five shows at Baby's All Right with Broncho, will continue to tour for most of 2015, including two more NYC shows this fall: Irving Plaza on October 8 & 9. Tickets for those shows go on sale Friday (5/22) at 1 PM with a Live Nation presale starting Thursday (5/21) at 10 AM. All tour dates are listed, along with a tour announce video, below.
Speaking of Broncho, you can check out pics from their recent show Rough Trade.
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photo: Broncho in Chicago last weekend (more by James Richard IV)
Indie rockers Broncho are currently on tour with Billy Idol, which we caught in NYC in January and just caught again in Chicago last weekend. After that, they'll head out on tour again, this time with The Growlers. That tour already included a four-night stand in NYC, happening at Baby's All Right on March 4, 5, 6 and 7. The latter two are sold out, but now a FIFTH night has been added for March 8. Tickets for that one, and the first two nights, are on sale now.
Updated dates are listed below...
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Billy Idol touring, played Beacon and Wellmont Theater w/ Broncho (who added 4 more NYC shows) -- pics, setlist, dates
Photos by Greg Cristman
Billy Idol & Steve Stevens
Billy Idol brought his current tour to NYC for a sold out show at Beacon Theater last week, and to NJ for another sold out show at Wellmont Theather the very next day. I was at the Beacon, but the pictures here are from Wellmont.
Though some of the songs are slightly slowed down, Billy's 17 song set is full of crowd pleasers with very few dull moments, thanks in part to original guitarist Steve Stevens belting out flashy solos by Billy's side. Also not dull: when some women in the front row reached up and touched Billy's privatest of parts, in clear view of everyone in the audience at Beacon Theater during "Cradle of Love" (it was a bit awkward).
Sometimes shirtless (which was not awkward at all), the 59 year old Idol ripped through favorites like "Cradle of Love", "Dancing With Myself", "Flesh for Fantasy", "Eyes Without a Face", "Rebel Yell" and "White Wedding". There were Generation X songs written in the 70s, and cuts from his October 2014 album Kings & Queens of the Underground. He also still does his Doors cover. I was hoping he didn't actually still play his 1981 Top 40 hit "Mony Mony" (a Tommy James and the Shondells cover), but he actually closed the encore with it. Maybe he feels like he has to play it, but it seemed like an unnecessary extended ending to an otherwise great show (do we really even need to hear anything else after "Rebel Yell" into "White Wedding"?). The full setlist can be perused below.
Oklahoma indie rock band Broncho somehow landed the opening spot on the ongoing tour, which was convenient because I was hoping to catch them live one of these days. They sounded good, but I got in a bit late and it was weird seeing them in a theater. They since played a rescheduled-due-to-Juno club show at Rough Trade NYC (how was that?), and have been added to all four Growlers shows at Baby's All Right, part of a bigger tour with the Growlers.
Updated tour dates are listed with the rest of the pictures from NJ (t-shirts included), below...
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Broncho in NYC with Billy Idol, reschedule Rough Trade show, touring with The Growlers (updated dates)
Oklahoma power pop band Broncho have rescheduled their Rough Trade show that got canceled on Monday due to Juno. They're coming back on February 2, and Dreamers and Heaven will open. Any tickets from Monday's show will be honored if not already refunded, and a new ticket link should be up soon.
The band is currently on a tour with Billy Idol, which hits NYC tonight (1/28) at Beacon Theatre. Sold out.
Updated dates (including a run with The Growlers whose tour includes four nights at Baby's) are listed below...
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Bonnaroo 2015 lineup (Kendrick Lamar, Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Robert Plant, Slayer, Belle & Sebastian, more)
photo: fans at Bonnaroo 2013 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)
Bonnaroo returns in 2015 from June 11-14 in Manchester, TN and the lineup is now announced.
It includes Billy Joel (!?!), Mumford and Sons, Deadmau5, Kendrick Lamar, Florence + the Machine, Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters, My Morning Jacket, Bassnectar, Alabama Shakes, Childish Gambino, Flume, Slayer, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, The War on Drugs, Ben Folds, Atmosphere, Atomic Bomb! (William Onyeabor tribute), Flying Lotus, Earth Wind & Fire, Caribou, SBTRKT, Run the Jewels, Sturgill Simpson, Sylvan Esso, Jamie xx, Against Me!, Rudimental, Mac DeMarco, Tears for Fears, Tycho, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Shabazz Palaces, Courtney Barnett, Woods, Iceage, Between the Buried & Me, Rustie, Strand of Oaks, Pallbearer, Dej Loaf, Hiss Golden Messenger, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and many more.
Tickets will be available Saturday (1/17) at noon on bonnaroo.com.
Full lineup below...
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Party rockers The Growlers released Chinese Fountain back in September which found the band in a laid-back mood, drawing inspiration from twangy early-'60s rock, with a few danceable numbers in there as well. You can stream the whole thing, and watch the video for "Good Advice," below.
The band were last in town right around the new album's release but will be touring again in the new year, wrapping things up in NYC with four consecutive nights at Baby's All Right on March 4 - 7. The 3/4 show is all-ages, the 3/5 show is 18+ and the 3/6 & 3/7 shows are 21+ (those last two also start at midnight). Tickets for all four NYC shows are on sale now. All dates are listed below.
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What's going on Thursday? (King Crimson, Ty Segall, Talib Kweli, Metronomy, Hiss Golden Messenger & more)
You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...
King Crimson @ Best Buy Theater
Robert Fripp's legendary prog band King Crimson are back and for this tour Fripp will be joined by Gavin Harrison (drums), Bill Rieflin (drums), Pat Mastelotto (drums), Tony Levin (bass and vocals), Mel Collins (Sax, flute), and Jakko Jakszyk (guitar, vocals). Crimson's got tons of different styles throughout their long career that dates back to the late '60s, so tonight should be anything but predictable. First of four shows.
Ty Segall, La Luz @ Webster Hall
This is Ty's second night at Webster Hall, this time with support from Seattle's super-fun surf band La Luz. Ty's hot off his fantastic new album, Manipulator, and he's at the top of his game right now. Tickets are still available.
Metronomy, Dawn Golden @ Irving Plaza
Metronomy's new album, Love Letters, the normally electronic-leaning band headed into almost early-'70s Kinks territory. Live, though, the songs bounce a little more than on the record, and they don't skimp on favorites like "The Look," "Radio Ladio," and "The Bay."
The Skygreen Leopards, Lower Plenty @ Baby's All Right
Skygreen Leopards have been part of San Francisco's psych scene since the early '00s, with the core duo of Glenn Donaldson and Donovan Quinn with various expanding and contracting bandmates over the years. The music has remained consistent, however, pastoral folk pop indebted to the city's mid-'60s flower-power scene. The band just released Family Crimes over the summer. Tonight's show is with Chicago's J Fernandez whose brand of indiepop leans towards The Monochrome set.
Junglepussy, UNiiQU3, Thurmon Green @ Baby's All Right
NYC rapper Junglepussy has been playing an increasing amount of local shows lately and keeps winning over audiences. Maybe tonight's your chance to catch her.
WIFE @ Baby's All Right (FREE, 11 PM)
Hang around Baby's after the Junglepussy show for a free show from WIFE, the electronic project of former Altar of Plagues vocalist/guitarist James Kelly.
The Growlers, The Garden @ Bowery Ballroom
Part of the Burger Records family of bands, The Growlers' make crunchy party rock that goes well with an attempted keg stand. Sold out.
Turquoise Jeep, Oxymorrons, Saba @ Brooklyn Bowl
Turquoise Jeep have made quite the stir on YouTube for their viral singles like "Lemme Smang It," and tonight they team up with a slightly more serious rap group, Oxymorrons.
Literature, Crazy Pills, Big Quiet, BBOYS @ Cake Shop
Philadelphia band Literature just released Chorus via Slumberland and it's a real sparkler. The band are a lot of fun live too, and loud, not your typical wallflower indiepop!
Axis:sovA, Life Stinks, Weird Womb, The Flag @ Death By Audio
The moniker of Chicago musician Brett Sova, Axis: Sova just made the tape Worse Fools Cease to Be a Shadow which for the first time features him backed by other musicians (two in this case). It's shitgazy psych, dirty and in your face. They just opened for Ty Segall at Webster Hall last night. Also playing San Francisco's Life Stinks, and Brooklyn bands Weird Womb and The Flag.
Half Waif, Pinegrove, Una Lux, Poor Remy @ Glasslands
Half Waif makes synthy art pop similar to Austra or Zola Jesus, and tonight she headlines hometown venue Glasslands.
Broncho, EZTV, Low Litas @ Mercury Lounge
Broncho's newest LP is a good mix of indie rock, power pop and other influences. Tonight's their first of two NYC shows this week.
Hiss Golden Messenger, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig @ Rough Trade
Hiss Golden Messenger is on Merge for his new album which has him going into bigger-sounding and more intricately-layered territories. Mountain Man's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, who guests on the record, opens the show.
Black Cobra, Lo-Pan, Kings Destroy, Godmaker @ Saint Vitus
Invisible Oranges is proudly presenting this show which is the NYC stop for sludge duo Black Cobra and stoner rockers Lo-Pan. Kings Destroy and Godmaker round out the bill.
Kode9, Mala, DJ Spinn, Taso, Ikonika, Scratcha DVA, Jubilee, Star Eyes @ Verboten
Forward-thinking electronic label Hyperdub is currently taking a chunk of their roster on the road, including founder Kode9, and that hits NYC tonight.
Billy Bragg, Billy The Kid @ City Winery
While known for his politics, Billy Bragg is at his best when writing about matters of the heart. A true troubadour, Bragg entertains equally with his music and between-song stories. Always worth seeing.
Dita Von Teese @ Gramercy Theatre
Burlesque star Dita Von Teese hits NYC for five nights as part of her "Burlesque: Strip Strip Hooray!" production. This is the third.
Talib Kweli @ Blue Note
NYC hip hop great Talib Kweli graces his hometown with a show at the Blue Note tonight. He'll be joined by a live band.
Sam Smith, Broods @ United Palace Theatre
Sam Smith's solo music may not get you dancing like his Disclosure collaboration does, but head to United Palace tonight to see what else he can offer.
Giant Peach, Brick Mower, Outta Gas, The Meltaways @ The Vangarden
New York's Giant Peach make quality punky indie rock (check out their new demos), and tonight they hit Brooklyn's The Vangarden (104 Emerson Pl.) for the first night of their tour. Tonight and tomorrow's Philly show are also both with Don Giovanni-signed Brick Mower, who are always worth catching as well.
Input w/ Midland, Jimmy Edgar, T. Williams, Cranks @ Output
Output's weekly Input party is tonight with UK house producer Midland, Detroit electronic musician Jimmy Edgar and others.
Elna Baker, Kevin Townley, Bridget Everett, Dave Hill @ The Bell House (Eugene Mirman Comedy Fest)
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival is back, and tonight's kickoff show has been dubbed "Gowanus Idol." What kind of talents will Ira Glass, Amy Schumer, Bridget Everett, Bobby Tisdale, Amber Tamblyn, Dave Hill (and more) be showing off? This is one of the few EMCF shows you can still get tickets to.
OK Go @ Le Poisson Rouge
OK Go aren't the most consistent band, but they're putting out their fourth album next month and from the sound of its lead single it may see them in going in more of a synth pop direction.
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La Femme at Bowery Ballroom in March (more by Amanda Hatfield)
France's La Femme have an addictive sound pulling from psychedelic pop, surf rock, ye-ye and more, and as good as their recorded music is, their live shows are crazy on another level. So lucky for us, they've announced that they'll be returning to the US this fall where they have three shows announced so far -- NYC's Le Poisson Rouge on October 16, LA's Echoplex on October 23, and San Francisco's Beach Goth Party on 10/25 with The Growlers, The Drums, DIIV, GZA, Cherry Glazerr, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Chelsea Wolfe, The Spits, Atlas Sound and more. CMJ is right in the middle of that gap, so it doesn't seem impossible that they'll play some shows during that as well. Tickets for LPR go on sale today (8/15) at noon.
All dates are listed, with a couple videos, below...
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Treasure Island Music Festival announces initial 2014 lineup: Outkast, Massive Attack, Alt-J, New Pornographers & more
Treasure Island Music Fest returns for its eighth edition on October 18 & 19 in San Francisco. This year's initial lineup has been announce and includes 2014's festival circuit MVPs Outkast, plus Massive Attack, Alt-J, TV on the Radio, Janelle Monae, The New Pornographers, and many more. Tickets will go on-sale Thursday, June 19th at 10 AM PDT.
Initial lineup below...
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Sasquatch 2014 day 2 pics (The National, Cut Copy, MIA, Neko Case, Deafheaven, Violent Femmes, Panda Bear, more)
photos by Chris Graham and Rae Graham
The National / M.I.A. / Deafheaven / crowd
For a moment there, it looked like The National's headlining set at Sasquatch - one of the band's biggest shows to date - was going to be underwhelming. For the first twenty minutes, the band felt too mellow, and frontman Matt Berninger, disinterested. And then, after "Don't Swallow The Cap", a switch seemingly went off in Berninger's head, and suddenly a middling National show turned into an outstanding, headlining-worthy triumph. After a furious "Afraid of Everyone", Berninger threw the first of many wine glasses (and later, bottles) into the air, walking away as it shattered on the ground. By the time he'd gotten to the always-intense "Squalor Victoria", he'd thrown his first microphone. By the end of main set closer "Mr. November", he'd attacked a stage banner, drank more wine, thrown a stage light, drank even more wine, dove into the crowd, crowdsurfed back, screamed at a sidestage LED screen, gone back into the crowd, drank wine (just to spit it out), and smashed whatever glass remained at that point. [KEXP]We've already posted day 1 pictures of Washington state's 2014 Sasquatch music festival, and here's a set of day 2 (5/24), including shots of The National, Cut Copy, Tyler the Creator, Austra, M.I.A., Panda Bear, Neko Case, Washed Out, Deafheaven, Violent Femmes, The Dodos, First Aid Kit and more. Pictures continue below...
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Pitchfork Festival 2014 lineup announced (Neutral Milk Hotel, Beck, Kendrick Lamar, Slowdive, Sun Kil Moon, Giorgio Moroder, Grimes & more)
Pitchfork Music Festival returns to Chicago's Union Park from July 18-20 and the lineup was just announced. It includes Neutral Milk Hotel, Kendrick Lamar, Beck, Slowdive (their first reunion show in the US so far), Giorgio Morder, Sun Kil Moon, Factory Floor, Death Grips, the Haxan Cloak, Sharon Van Etten, tUnE-yArDs, The Julie Ruin, Grimes, Wild Beasts, DIIV, Ka, Circulatory System, Pusha T, The Range, Mas Ysa and more TBA. Tickets are on sale now.
In related news, Pitchfork is teaming up with ATP and Primavera Sound for London's Jabberwocky Festival which includes Neutral Milk Hotel, Electric Wizard, Deafheaven, Kode9, Earth, Pissed Jeans, Connan Mockasin, The Ex, Speedy Ortiz, Iceage, Vatican Shadow, Joanna Gruesome, Metz, Jesu, Chelsea Wolfe, Hookworms and more.
Initial day-by-day Pitchfork Fest lineup below...
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Sasquatch! 2014 lineups announced (Outkast, Neutral Milk Hotel, Kraftwerk, New Order, QOTSA, The National, Frank Ocean, tUnE-yArDs, Deltron 3030 & WAY more)
Sasquatch! Music Festival is returning for two weekends in 2014 to The Gorge in Quincy, Washington, and the lineups (which are different both weekends) have just been announced. The May lineup (5/23 - 5/25, aka Memorial Day Weekend) includes Outkast, The National, Queens of the Stone Age, M.I.A., Haim, Neko Case, Foals, Cut Copy, Violent Femmes, Elbow, Mogwai, Tyler the Creator, Chance the Rapper, Rudimental, Phantogram, tUnE-yArDs, First Aid Kit, Rodriguez, AlunaGeorge, Panda Bear, Phosphorescent, Bob Mould, Washed Out, Austra, Parquet Courts, Deafheaven, Big Freedia, Liars, Waxahatchee, Tacocat, Princess (feat. Maya Rudolph), Bridget Everett, Eric Andre and more.
The July lineup (7/4 - 7/6, aka Independence Day Weekend) includes Soundgarden, Kraftwerk, New Order, Frank Ocean, Royksopp + Robyn, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, Broken Bells, Tegan & Sara, Local Natives, Gogol Bordello, Rhye, Black Angels, Deltron 3030, The Horrors, Junip, The Notwist, Kurt Vile, Talib Kweli, of Montreal, Action Bronson, Punch Brothers, Sharon Van Etten, Casey Veggies, RL Grime, Fuck Buttons, Courtney Barnett, Cloud Nothings, Foxygen, Palma Violets, Mikal Cronin, Mac DeMarco, Jon Hopkins, Gold Panda, Majical Cloudz, Duke Dumont, Oneohtrix Point Never, Death, Black Prairie, Latryx, Metz, John Grant, Reigning Sound, Young & Sick, Chad VanGaalen, Mutual Benefit, Helms Alee, Demetri Martin, Eugene Mirman, Kurt Braunohler, John Hodgman and more. There will also be fireworks for the 4th of July.
Tickets (including a 2-weekend pass option) go on sale Saturday at 10 AM.
Full lineups for both weekends below...
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Primavera Sound 2014 line-up: Slowdive, Arcade Fire, NMH, Kendrick Lamar, Disclosure, QOTSA, and more
One of the coolest festivals in the world, Barcelona's Primavera Sound will hold its 2014 edition from May 29 - 31. Arcade Fire, Pixies and Neutral Milk Hotel were announced as headliners a while back but the fest announced it's headliners today via an online short film. They've outdone themselves this year, as the three day event includes a reunited Slowdive (!), Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The National, Television, Slint, Foals, Warpaint, St. Vincent, Majical Cloudz, Kendrick Lamar, The National, Metronomy, Queens of the Stone Age, Disclosure, CHVRCHES, Darkside, Julia Holter, Cloud Nothings , and more.
Full line-up below and tickets are on sale now.
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photos by Dylan Johnson; words by Bill Pearis
The Growlers / Gap Dream / Together Pangea @ Bowery Ballroom 10/5/2013
The Burgerama Caravan of All-Stars rolled through NYC last weekend, stopping at Bowery Ballroom on Saturday (10/5) for a sold out show. While The Growlers were the official headliners, Burger Records itself seemed to be the star of the show and seem to be a lifestyle choice as much as a label or record store, promoting good time OC party vibes throughout the night. Apart from the headliners, most bands' sets were short and the sceney crowd seemed to be there for everybody.
The highlight of the evening for me was Gap Dream, aka Ohioan Gabe Fulvimar who moved to Burger HQ in Fullerton, CA to make his new album, Shine Your Light. (Like, literally. He moved into a storage room in Burger's warehouse.) The new album (which is great) is synth-and-drum-machine heavy and the live band, just guitar-bass-keys, reflected this. Normally no live drummer is an immediate strike against the band in my book, but Gabe's onstage charisma won me over almost immediately. Looking like he stepped straight out of WKRP in Cincinatti, Gabe is a confident charmer and the word "superstar" definitely popped into my head watching him work the crowd.
The rest of the show was a little more trad garage styles, ranging from party punk (White Fang and Together Pangea whose wild set security was maybe not expecting), '60s Phil Spector pop (Habibi, whose line-up has changed significantly since I last saw them), psych-pop (Cosmonauts), and Colleen Green's winning solo set that came early in the night. The Growlers' crunchy party rock finished off the night. My only real disappointments of the night were that A) Gap Dream didn't play just a little longer and B) they sold out of Burger Records t-shirts early in the night.
More pics from Burgerama at Bowery (minus openers Habibi, who our photographer missed) below...
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photos by Paige K. Parsons
Phoenix / YYYs / the scene @ Outside Lands, 8/10/2013
As things got dark, so did the music: Phoenix lit up the Twin Peaks Stage with their chartbusting electro-pop that was inescapable from 2009-2010. On the main stage, Trent Reznor came out all shrouded in chiaroscuro for a tense set of industrial metal that has somehow remained ageless since the mid-90s. Flashes of bright white bounced off set pieces and Reznor was looking more ripped and angry than ever in a sleeveless pocket hoodie, ready to devour the microphone whole. But unlike McCartney's set on Friday night, from which we were unable to pull ourselves away, the smart kids knew to hit the buses early and make a breezy exit back towards downtown or BART or Divisadero bars - [SFist]The sixth annual Outside Lands Music Festival happened last weekend at San Francisco's gorgeous Golden Gate Park. The second day (Saturday, 8/10) featured anticipated headlining sets from Nine Inch Nails and Phoenix, both making their way around the festival circuit this summer. Saturday's performers also included Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jurrasic 5, The Head & the Heart, The Growlers, Gary Clark Jr. and more. Pictures from those artists and more are in this post.
\Like at Lollapalooza and Firefly, and like we'll be doing again at Bumbershoot, BrooklynVegan was set up each day of Outside Lands in the Soundwave tent where our hosts Christen Thomas and Dave Hill DJ'd, told jokes and interviewed and hosted bands that were playing the fest.
Pictures from Outside Lands Day 1 are HERE and Day 3 are on the way. More from Day 2 below...
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Outside Lands 2012 (more by Amoreena Lucero)
Lollapalooza and Osheaga are behind us, but the summer festivals keep rolling on with San Francisco's Outside Lands this weekend (8/9-8/11). The festival is sold out, but if you've already got tickets and are going, you might like to know how to get there, and once you're there, the festival map will help you find your way around inside.
Meanwhile, if you're not going to Outside Lands, but still want to watch the fun go down, you can stream it live on Purevolume. Artists whose sets will stream live include Jessie Ware, The National, Band of Horses, Yeasayer, and more on Friday; Nine Inch Nails, Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, The Tallest Man on Earth, Baauer, Gary Clark Jr and more on Saturday; and Vampire Weekend, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dawes, Kurt Vile, Foals, Rudimental, Camper Van Beethoven and more on Sunday.
D'Angelo has officially dropped off the festival, after recently cancelling other shows due to illness. He was replaced by Chic. You know, the band that guy who worked with Daft Punk is in.
The full Outside Lands schedule can be found at their site. Full streaming schedule below...
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Growlers, Gap Dream & more going on 'Burgerama Caravan of All-Stars' tour; Burger Boogaloo in Bay Area this weekend
Fullerton, CA record store/label/way-of-life Burger Records, who has somewhat cornered the market on low-fi, nasally, tongue-in-cheek powerpop/punk/garage, has been hosting Burgerama fests in California for a few years. But now they're taking the show on the road with the Burgerama Caravan of All-Stars, featuring The Growlers, Cosmonauts, Gap Dream, and Pangea. That tour includes a stop in NYC on October 5 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for that show are on sale now and all dates are listed below.
If you live in the San Francisco area, Burger is throwing a two-day festival, Burger Boogaloo, this weekend (July 6 & 7) in Oakland's Mosswood Park, featuring appearances by Jonathan Richman, Oblivians, Redd Kross, The Seros, FUZZ, Trashwomen, Audacity, Traditional Fools, Mean Jeans, Shannon & The Clams, Guantanamo Baywatch, Pangea, Gravy's Drop, Mikal Cronin, Gap Dream, Peach Kelli Pop, Wet Spots, Stompin' Riff Raffs, DJ Jonathan Toubin NY Night Train, DJ Russell Quan, MC Oscar, and more. Tickets are still available.
Many of the groups named above are featured on the label's new cassette compilation, Taste of Burger Records, which has a whopping 57 tracks. You can stream the whole thing below.
Burger's next two releases both come out on July 23. One is Love is the Law, the new album from Portland's The Memories whose folky pop is not that far from The Beets. You can stream a track off that below. The other is The Life and Times of a Paperclip, from SoCal duo The Garden and their drum-and-bass setup will probably appeal to fans of The Intelligence. You can check out the video to "I'm A Woman" below.
Fliers for Burgerama Caravan of All-Stars and Burger Boogaloo, plus the list of tour dates and streams, below...
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Outside Lands Fest 2013 line-up: Paul McCartney, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs ++ more)
Outside Lands Fest 2012 (more byAmoreena Lucero)
The 2013 edition of San Francisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival with happen at Golden Gate Park on August 9 - 11. This year's line-up includes Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, D'Angelo, Willie Nelson, Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Hall & Oates, Foals, A-Track, Jurassic 5, Kurt Vile and many more. Tickets go on sale Thursday (4/18) at noon PDT.
This is the sixth edition of Outside Lands, and the full announced line-up is below.
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Tamaryn is DJing at New York's Museum of Modern Art on Sunday evening (4/7) as part of a PopRally event called "Abstract Currents." Against projections of one-minute videos submitted by the public, Tamryn will provide a "hypnotic soundtrack to the collectively built abstract videoscape." It's in conjunction with MoMA's Abstraction, 1910-1925 and Abstract Generation: Now in Print exhibition and tickets are still available.
Later this month, Tamaryn will be in Texas' state capital for Austin Psych Fest (Apr. 26 - 28), which features a pretty amazing line-up that runs the gammut of "psychedelic," including Deerhunter, Spectrum, Black Mountain, OS Mutantes, The Moving Sidewalks, Clinic, Besnard Lakes, Elephant Stone, Roky Erickson, Sweden's GOAT and a bunch more. The fest just announced the day-by-day line-ups which are listed below.
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Sasquatch! 2012 (more by Chris Graham and Rae Graham)
Quincy, WA music festival Sasquatch! has announced that it will return for its 12th installment to The Gorge over Memorial Day Weekend (5/24 - 5/27) in 2013. A limited number of discounted four-day festival passes will go on sale Friday (11/23) at 9 AM PST at the Sasquatch! website. The lineup will be announced in February.
In other US festival news, as recently mentioned on BV Austin, Austin Psych Fest will go down in Carson Creek Ranch from April 26 to 28 with Deerhunter, The Black Angels, Boris, Spectrum, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Clinic, Warpaint, DIIV, and many more. More info HERE.


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The hyperdunks haven't changed much over the years, so these drastically different. A little bit like the Kobe Elite in the heel area. I really like the copper ones, I'd consider picking up a pair when they release.Also noticed that they've switched from Lunar cushioning to Zoom.


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Bank of Thailand sees no benefit from dropping rates
Publication Date : 26-02-2013
Keeping the policy rate at its current level at its next meeting would mean the central bank is running with the tide, not against it, Bank of Thailand (BOT) Governor Prasarn Trairatvora-kul has indicated.
Speaking at The Nation Exclusive Insights for CEOs on "Baht Watch 2013", he explained why the interest rate cannot be lowered - telling the 32 guests a lower interest rate wouldn't stabilise the baht or help the country in the long term.
Starting with an overview of the global foreign exchange market, which is influenced by quantitative easing by developed economies, he explained the "impossible trinity" (also known as the "trilemma") - interest rate autonomy, capital mobility and exchange rate stability.
Striving for public trust after the disastrous 1997 financial crisis, the Bank of Thailand puts interest rate autonomy as a priority.
In this scenario, as Thailand draws more capital to finance domestic economic expansion, there is restriction on capital inflow. That means exchange rates would be a victim, to move in line with changes in capital flows.
"We can't have them all," the central banker told the CEOs during the event at the Dusit Thani Hotel last Friday.
The governor also sent a strong signal that the situation would not be changed soon. Resisting the urge for a switch from inflation targeting to exchange rate targeting, he insisted the interest rate had proved it could control the monetary condition well, while exchange rate instruments posed a problem of controllability. Performing well in reducing output and inflation volatility, the interest rate policy in Thailand provided adequate flexibility in economic and financial stability.
"We acknowledge the government's concern that the baht appreciation will impact the country's exports. Anyway, we cannot rely on only one strategic tool to solve two particular problems. We need to trade off," Prasarn said.
"We (the Bank of Thailand), however, agree to undertake further discussion with the government to integrate our tools together in solving the country's financial and economic problems in the future," he said.
Prasarn gave the example of 1997 when the BOT tried to fully pursue all three objectives - interest rate autonomy, free capital mobility, and exchange rate stability - which proved to be the central bank's worst failure.
He said the BOT currently employed interest rates as the main policy instrument based on three criteria for appropriate monetary policy instruments, which are the ability to control monetary policy conditions and to mitigate the impact from the economic cycle to ensure growth and inflation stability.
It was flexible in responding to shocks, and could be used in combination with other policy tools.
Interest rates appear to be a more appropriate instrument in the Thai context under the 'flexible inflation targeting' regime. Interest rates had proved to be able to control monetary conditions well, while the exchange rate instrument was limited in controllability.
Bank of Thailand research supported this, he said. Foreign capital was flowing into Thailand mainly because of investor confidence (15 per cent), expected baht appreciation (15 per cent), economic conditions (11 per cent) and implied dollar/ baht volatility (10 per cent).
The weight of interest rate differential is only 3 per cent as well as inflation (3 per cent).
In another scenario, among 12 economies in Asia, Thai real rates are the third lowest by 0.64 per cent, higher than only those of Singapore (4.02 per cent) and Hong Kong (3.27 per cent). To the governor, the interest rate is already low, being at the point that encourages speculation in some sectors, particularly the stock market and condominiums, as real interest rates have been in negative territory for some time.
Prasarn said that the too-low interest rate environment was likely to be a source of financial imbalance build-up as it induces domestic investors to shift their investments into more risky assets.
He said the Thai baht was currently fairly valued from the market's view. However, current concerns, which may affect financial stability and private consumption in the future, are the rise of credit and household debt, especially auto and personal loans.
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Another image from Venice. Boy, is this city photogenic! Everything there has so much texture and details, it is unbelievable. I don't think I saw one front of a building that wasn't a real beauty! I really enjoyed shooting in this monumental city. If you're a photographer and you haven't been to Venice, you better catch the next plane and go there. You won't regret it.
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Or go by train. Venice is very beautiful. I was there end of November.
Heinrich on 21st December 2011 @ 12:06pm
i just love the colour of the water there. hope you also went to borano. awesome colours there.
faisal on 21st December 2011 @ 2:23pm
What a nice shot! Venice is a perfect place to take some photos!
Max on 26th December 2011 @ 2:53pm
Happy New Year!
Hans ter Horst on 31st December 2011 @ 8:38am
great shot, very unique city.. I would like to eventually visit Venice
Russ on 4th January 2012 @ 7:51pm
I love this; would love to one day visit.
Hope you will stop by my blog, too.
Hogger & Co. on 11th January 2012 @ 4:52pm
By the time I get around to paying this place a visit it's going to be under water.
hoi on 11th January 2012 @ 5:02pm
it's a marvel for sure. very pretty image.
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Holidays in Ciudadela
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Discover Ciudadela
Ciudadela resort is located west of Menorca and is the face of the ancient town. Moorish-style buildings and a number of medieval architectures dot the stunning town, offering tourists on holiday in Menorca a chance to sample the rich history of Ciudadela. Beautiful narrow streets made of cobblestones and ancient buildings are spectacular sights that will greet you on arrival for Ciudadela holidays. For transport, there are commercial buses and taxis that connect the resort to nearby Cala Santandria and Cala Blanca. Around town, it is a pleasant experience to take a walk and see the Gothic churches, Italian archways and the emerging modern shopping malls.
Ciudadela Holiday Attractions
The most notable attractions on the island are the dazzling beaches that can be visited any time of the year. It is pure fun to spend time here as you enjoy sea sports like fishing and boat riding on your holidays in Ciudadela. Sun bathing on the clean sand is also a popular pastime here. If you do not like the bustle of the busy beaches, drive to the cool and virtually undisturbed countryside that has not changed much for over 300 years.
Natural gorges, rolling plains, massive rocks and forested terrains are some of the sights you will want to see here time and again.
The best place to spend your nights while on Ciudadela holidays is at the harbour. The twinkling reflections of the city lights on the water are a sight that will forever remain etched in your mind. Bars and restaurants around the harbour get busier as the night progresses. Most of the time, you will hear local and international music blaring from clubs as night revellers on holidays in Ciudadela make merry all night long. There are movie theatres, casinos and live performances for tourists with varying tastes. While on holiday in Ciudadela, find some time to sample the rich Arab and Spanish dishes that are readily available in many eateries. If you fancy a less engaging experience, you can sit by the seaside and enjoy the cool therapeutic breeze as you end your nights in style.
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It's that time of the year, when pop culture websites and critics publish their annual Best Of lists and we heap praise on the best and most beloved movies and TV shows of the year. But what about the average moviegoer and TV-viewer? That's where Facebook comes in. The social media site has released their top 10 movies and top 10 TV shows of the year, based on the most discussed titled of 2014. While some are fairly obvious, the lists might surprise you and inspire you to contemplate the overlap between what's popular and what's actually good.
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Now you can get prison time for threatening someone online. Have the "thought police" already arrived?
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The last time an NFL season opened and Rex Grossman took the field as a starting quarterback was four years ago. He was 27, coming off a 13-3 season and a Super Bowl appearance. Were he any other quarterback in any other city, billboards might have carried his likeness; jerseys would have flown off the shelves.
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PCIe solid state storage definition
PCIe SSS is one of the four form factors for solid-state drives (SSDs).
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PCIe, which stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, is a high-speed expansion card format that connects a computer with its attached peripherals. PCIe has a point-to-point architecture. This means that each device connects to the host with its own serial link and does not have to share a bus.
In general, PCIe-based solid-state storage has better performance than server-based SATA, SAS or Fibre Channel (FC) solid-state drives because of the direct connections. This makes it a good choice for applications that have intensive input/output (I/O) requirements, such as online transaction processing and data warehousing.
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text: In the Run-Grow-Transform (RGT) framework, the third component is that of transformation, or enabling your organization to operate in entirely new ways. Of the three major business IT applications we discussed in this chapter (supply chain management, customer relationship management, and social media), which one(s) do you believe most support organizational transformation? Justify your answer.


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The long-awaited Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS will come bundled with an unexpected accessory, a plastic stand designed to keep your handheld steady while Pit battles Micks, Eggplant Wizards and Monoeyes.
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The long-awaited Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS will come bundled with an unexpected accessory, a plastic stand designed to keep your handheld steady while Pit battles Micks, Eggplant Wizards and Monoeyes.
Continue Reading: Kid Icarus: Uprising Will Gently Cradle Your Nintendo 3DS With Its Steadying Stand
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No offense, FIFA and Pro Evo players, but I've never been a soccer man. I'm firmly in the American football camp. But the PlayStation Vita's new augmented reality footie game, Pocket Soccer (AKA Pocket Football), has spurred a sudden interest in me to take to the video game pitch. The most appealing part is the asking price: free.
Continue Reading: CES 2012: PS Vita's Free Pocket Soccer AR Game Makes Soccer Look Really Cool
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 11, 2012 at 6:00PM
Sony's new Personal 3D Viewer sits somewhere between awesome consumer electronics innovation and worrying future-tech that transforms us into drooling slaves to virtual entertainment, shutting out the outside world for a hit of electronic escapism.
Maybe I've seen too many dystopian near future sci-fi films. Regardless, strapping on an $800 3D display that's shockingly crystal clear and gives your eyeballs the impression they're looking at 150" of HDTV screen turns out to be kind of amazing. Especially when you're playing Gran Turismo 5 in 3D while wearing it.
Continue Reading: CES 2012: Playing Gran Turismo 5 With A Goofy Looking $800 3D Headset Is Actually Pretty Awesome
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 10, 2012 at 11:41PM
Maker of fine arcade sticks and competitive gamepads Mad Catz has something in store for the upcoming release of Street Fighter X Tekken: more fine arcade sticks and competitive gamepads! While some of the products may look familiar, the company's newest creation, the Arcade Fightstick V.S. Edition, is at least noteworthy for its impressive size.
Continue Reading: CES 2012: Mad Catz Unveils Beastly Street Fighter X Tekken VS. Arcade Sticks
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 10, 2012 at 10:25PM
Downloadable content for Dark Souls? We didn't think we'd ever see it, considering its creative lead all but ruled out the possibility. But according to a report from EGM, some sort of add-on is coming for Dark Souls and it's coming in just a few months.
Continue Reading: Rumor: More Dark Souls Coming Soon As DLC
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 10, 2012 at 7:58PM
At CES today, Kaz Hirai, Sony executive deputy president and man in charge of all things PlayStation, said the company is "not making any announcements at E3" about the PlayStation 4 — or whatever Sony might call its next-gen console.
Continue Reading: CES 2012: No PlayStation 4 Announcements for E3, Says Sony
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 10, 2012 at 6:00PM
Sony has a handful of Android-based, PlayStation Certified devices at CES 2012, tablets and smartphones that are capable of playing some original PSone games (Crash Bandicoot, MediEvil, Destruction Derby, etc.) and select PSP software — games in the PlayStation Suite family.
The out-of-the-box method for playing these games on devices like the Sony Tablet S or the new Xperia Ion is via touchscreen, with a full compliment of DualShock controls overlayed onto the display. The better method is to use a PlayStation 3 DualShock controller.
Continue Reading: CES 2012: The Best Way to Play PlayStation Games on a Smartphone? With A DualShock 3
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 10, 2012 at 5:00PM
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime was on the receiving end of a grilling from the CES All Access team on Spike TV today, who hit him with a barrage of Wii U-related questions he deftly tried to avoid answering. "Will the Wii U have its own Super Mario Bros?" wondered co-hostess Eliza Dushku. "When, exactly, will the Wii U be released?" prodded Geoff Keighley. "Did Reggie actually give clear answers to any of these questions?" you may be wondering.
Continue Reading: CES 2012: Reggie Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny Duck Hunt for Wii U
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 10, 2012 at 1:00PM
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is primed to expand later this month, as the first of "at least 20" content drops–meaning new maps, new missions and more–deploys on January 24. Those downloadable goods come first to Xbox Live, first to Call of Duty Elite premium members.
The game's first content drop kicks off the "Modern Warfare 3 Content Season for Call of Duty Elite," Infinity Ward and Activision announced today, a nine-month-long series of downloadable add-ons for the blockbuster shooter.
Continue Reading: First Modern Warfare 3 DLC Drops in January, Kicks Off 9 Month Elite "Content Season"
Posted by: Michael McWhertor | January 09, 2012 at 11:09PM
Microsoft will release a version of Kinect that plays nicely with PCs and Windows 7, starting February 1. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the release date for Kinect for Windows at CES 2012 today, with at least one retailer putting a surprising price tag on the motion-sensing controller.
Continue Reading: Kinect For Windows Launches February 1, With $100 Price Bump
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Calls for national action on missing, murdered aboriginal women gather steam
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Cheras, Kuala Lumpur
- For the Selangor side of the same town, refer Cheras, Selangor.
Cheras[1] is a city of Kuala Lumpur, the capital metropolis of Malaysia. The township is located to the south-east of Kuala Lumpur. Cheras is also adjacent to Ampang to the north and Kajang to the south, both of which are major cities within the metropolitan area of Kuala Lumpur.[2]
Originally, Cheras is the name of an ancient Indian(Tamil) kingdom that roughly corresponds to today's Kerala region in southern India. Cheras kings were known as Keralaputras.
Cheras was known as "Jiu Lai" (蕉賴) in Cantonese, which referred to the area all the way from 3 1/2 Miles to 11 Miles towards Kajang. Back then there were 3 major divisions in Cheras: 5 1/2 Miles, which is known as Yulek (友力), meaning "energized" (now officially known as Taman Cheras) and "Boton" meaning "treasure fortress" (now known as Taman Midah) and Cheras Baru was known as "6 Miles Village" (六里村).
The suburb is part of the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur. This excludes a portion of the area known as Cheras, Selangor which resides in the state of Selangor.
Sports facilities[edit]
Kuala Lumpur, of which Cheras is part of, played host to the 1995 SEA games and 1998 Commonwealth Games, and therefore houses many international standard sports facilities and stadiums, including the Kuala Lumpur Football Stadium (located in Bandar Tun Razak), Cheras Badminton Stadium, Velodrome, and National Swimming Center (near Kuala Lumpur Football Stadium).
Cheras it is ideal for tourists and itinerant executives looking for accommodation that doesn't come with the urban bustle, but still accessible from the city centre.
Hotel Caliber,[3] located along MRR2 or Middle Ring Road in Cheras, offers 132 rooms. It has a restaurant, KTV, conference room, Wi-Fi services, and health spa.
Cheras hosts several LRT stations. On the Star LRT Line, the Cheras station is located in Jalan Ikan Emas and Maluri Station is located in the busy road of Jalan Cheras, near Aeon Jaya Jusco Mall, Taman Maluri. The Bandar Tasik Selatan Rail interchange is also connected to the KLIA through the ERL Expressway, a 20 minute journey, and also connected to KTM Intercity Railway and the new Interstate bus station, Terminal Bersepadu Selatan (TBS).
There are also a number of buses that goes through Cheras. Major highways in Cheras include Jalan Cheras, Cheras-Kajang Highway, SMART tunnel Highway, MEX Highway (Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya), and KESAS Highway. Cheras also will hosts few MRT stations in the newly proposed Klang Valley MRT project which would kick start the ground work in July 2011. Among the stations proposed is Taman Pertama Station, Taman Midah Station, Cheras Leisure Mall Station, Plaza Phoenix Station, Taman Suntex Station, Bandar Tun Hussein Onn station and Taman Cuepacs. The proposed MRT line is named as MRT Line 1 (Sungai Buloh-Kajang MRT Line).
Cheras' population was around 250,400 in 2010.
Several local shopping centres were established in Cheras with varying success, including Cheras Leisure Mall, Connaught Market Centre (Giant Hypermarket), Carrefour Cheras, Jaya Jusco Taman Maluri, Viva Home, AEON Jusco Cheras Selatan, Cheras Sentral Shopping Mall and Hero Super Market (located at Bandar Sri Permaisuri). The most recent centre to open is Aeon Jusco Mahkota Cheras, situated in Mahkota Cheras and near Bandar Tun Hussein Onn. There are many shop houses, street markets and weekend markets all over the Cheras suburban estates.
Cheras is also the home to the longest pasar malam (night market) in Malaysia which is located in Taman Connaught[4]/
The shopping culture in Cheras changed when KL Downtown [1], a night bazaar opened on 24 June 2006. KL Downtown offers shopping through the wee hours of the morning. It is located at a former carpark lot. It is a joint venture between Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur and Persatuan Pengasih Malaysia. 400 stalls were built, including an open stage for performance acts by Malaysian singers or arts group. It is open from 10pm - 4am everyday, and may stay open until 6am on weekends.
Night activities at Bandar Tun Razak arose when several places were opened till midnight to boost its customers. Pusat Komuniti Bandar Tun Razak which is located at Taman Mulia the heart of Bandar Tun Razak serves food and has a night market.
Cheras is famous for its schools and institutions of higher learning. The government has been investing heavily to build schools and institutions of higher learning especially in Bandar Tun Razak area.
Alam Shah Science School or better known as ASiS is an upper secondary fully residential school located at Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur. ASiS has been named as one of the High Performance School since early 2011. It renders education to selected male students achieving excellent results in the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination. Another boarding school located here is SM Sains Selangor that located besides Alam Shah Science School.
Cheras is home to multiple schools and also UCSI University which offer courses like music, medicine, and architecture. The main campus, South Wing Campus, is situated in Taman Connaught. The Faculty of Engineering, Architecture, and Build Environment, which is also called North Wing Campus, is situated at Taman Taynton.
Kolej Teknologi YPC-iTWEB and Cyberbernetics International College of Technology (CiCT) is located in Taman Maluri, Cheras
Sekolah Menengah Teknik Kuala Lumpur, better known as Technical Institute of Kuala Lumpur (TIKL), is located at Jalan Yaacob Latif. It is a boarding school that offers courses such as Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Commerce. It was the first and oldest technical school in Malaysia. Once the best technical school in Malaysia in 2006. Nowadays, this school was declared as one of the Ministry of Education's Cluster School in 2008.
There are also 2 institutes used for teachers' training which are: Institut Perguruan Ilmu Khas (Special Education Teachers' Institute). Institut Perguruan Teknik (Technical Teachers' Institute).
- ^ "Cheras". www.durianproperty.com.my. DurianProperty.com.my. Retrieved 17 Dec 2014.
- ^ Ayu Aziz. (2003, February). Rediscovering Cheras. Malaysian Business,01. , from ProQuest Asian Business and Reference. (Document ID: 299258681).
- ^ Hotel Caliber
- ^ http://www.mycen.my/taman-connaught-pasar-malam/
External links[edit]
- Kuala Lumpur MRT Website
- Kuala Lumpur travel guide from Wikivoyage
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Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in Fusarium graminearum by comparing four Fusarium genomes
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BMC Genomics 2010, 11:208 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-208Published: 26 March 2010
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Measurement is critical to scientific understanding of how nature works. It is also critical to making a difference in the everyday world. It was not until the 20th century that scientists figured out a way to measure behavior so that they could begin to formulate behavioral principles that can be used to help humans make a difference in everyday behavior.
Because learning is something that goes on at the level of individual organisms, behavior analysts realized that study of behavioral processes would require studying the behavior of one organism at a time. Of course, what scientists are ultimately interested in is behavioral processes common to the learning of many different organisms of many different species - including humans. In other words, they were interested in formulating principles that applied to the behavior of all kinds of creatures. But behavioral processes operate at the level of individual organisms. In order to learn how behavioral processes operate, behavior must be studied as it changes in the repertoire of one individual.
The same thing is true of all processes that occur at the level of individual organisms. To find out how brains and cardiovascular systems work, their activities must be examined one organism at a time. As it turns out, there are many similarities in the brains of all humans and in all their cardiovascular systems. It even turns out that there are many similarities in the way brains and cardiovascular systems of all mammals - not just humans - work. This is also true of operant behavior. It works the same way in all humans and many other animals as well.
The necessity of examining the behavior of individual organisms made it hard for scientists not to focus on organisms themselves as the subject matter of interest. It took a long time for scientists to realize that the unit of analysis important to understanding behavior was not an organism but an operant. Not only did operant behavior have to be studied one organism at a time, but it also had to be studied one operant at a time in order to determine the ways in which the environment functions to build, maintain, and change operant behavior.
Once behavior analyst scientists formulated principles that describe the ways that operant behavior changes in relation to changes in its environment, those principles themselves became part of the behavioral environment of applied scientists and behavior-change practitioners. As part of their environment, the principles could affect the activities of applied scientists and practitioners, making it possible to base applications on known scientific principles of behavior for the first time in history.
Applied behavior analysts and behavior technologists or practitioners are interested in the content of particular operants. Their job is to bring about specific targeted changes in the behavioral repertoires of particular people. In order to do that, they need two kinds of knowledge. First they need to understand the principles that explain how behavior works; and second they need to define the particular behavior of interest and to identify the particular events that constitute the behavioral environment of the particular person they are trying to help.
1. Operant processes occur at the level of _______________ organisms.
2. Although behavior must be studied one organism at a time, the unit of analysis important to understanding behavior is not an organism, but a(n) _______________ .
3. Practitioners are interested in the content of _______________ operants of 4. a(n) _______________ human or other organism.
Like any observable phenomena, the acts of an operant have physical dimensions or properties that can be measured. Some measurable dimensions or properties of operant acts are topography,duration, and latency. Consider the act of pressing a doorbell. The topography of the press is described by a behavioral definition. The definition specifies what will be counted as an instance of pressing the doorbell. In addition to topography, each press also has the dimension of duration which is the time it takes for the press to occur, from beginning to end. The latency of each hand raise is another dimension or property of the behavior that can be measured. Latency is the time it takes for the hand raise to begin after some other event occurs, for example after the instruction to "ring the doorbell" is given.
These dimensions or properties of operants are called variables because the numerical values of the properties of the re-occuring acts can (and do) vary from one occurrence to the next occurrence of the act. For example, if you were measuring the duration of Joe's hand raises, you might measure the first hand raise as having a duration of 2 seconds and the second a duration of 2.2 seconds and the third a duration of 1.8 seconds, etc. Joe's hand raises may turn out to have an average duration of 2 seconds.
Laboratory scientists have studied all of the dimensions of operant units that we will discuss in this course. The advantage of the laboratory is that scientists can arrange the environment so that a behavior stream is taken up almost completely by acts belonging to one operant unit...for example, a rat's lever pressing. The lab provides a way of isolating an operant unit so it can be observed as it changes over time when the behavioral environment is experimentally manipulated in various ways. That is how scientists discovered the ways that behavioral environments cause the properties of actions to have the numerical values they have and to change over time.
In this module we discuss ways that all operant behavior can be measured, whatever the content. We are interested in properties that all operants have in common and that can be observed to change when particular kinds of changes occur in the world outside those operants. We will also discuss some ways of measuring behavior as it occurs in the everyday world. Applied behavior analysts and behavior technologists usually cannot arrange the world so that the operant they are interested in can be isolated in a behavior stream. So they must figure out ways to measure it as it occurs -- distributed across time in a behavior stream in a constantly changing behavioral environment.
5. The acts that constitute an operant have many _______________ or properties that can be measured.
6. The properties (dimensions) of operant acts are called _______________ because the numerical values of any act's properties can (and do) vary from one occurrence to the next occurrence of the act.
7. Laboratory scientists arrange the _______________ 8.so that most of the behavior that occurs belongs to the same _______________ .
Before we can measure behavior, we must identify or construct the behavior of interest (BOI). The BOI is a particular action that appears with some frequency in the behavior stream of some particular organism. If we work in a laboratory, we have the luxury of arranging the world so that the participating subject (call him Snowball the Rat) has a limited number of acts that can occur in that environment. Let us specify lever pressing as the BOI. We can also arrange the environment so that Snowball hasn't had food for some time and we can make food contingent on lever pressing. Given these arrangements, it is likely that we will see quite a bit of leverpressing, and not much other behavior, in Snowball's current behavior stream.
We can measure the lever pressing in many different ways. Before we can measure it, though, we must define what exactly will qualify as a "lever press". We need a behavioral definition. Let's define the BOI as "any activity of Snowball that has the effect of moving the lever downward far enough to operate an electric switch". So movement that operates the switch constitutes the acts that we are going to measure. Snowball is the organism whose lever pressing we are going to measure in order to begin learning how behavior works. If we learn how Snowball's behavior works, we can then see if some other rat's behavior works in the same way. And then we can see if the behavioral environment functions in the same way with respect to organisms of other species.
9. Before measuring behavior, it is necessary to _______________ the behavior of interest.
10. A short way (abbreviation) of writing or saying "behavior of interest" is _______________ .
11. Each occurrence of an act has many dimensions or properties, each of which can be _______________ .
Applied behavior analysts need to understand how environmental events are affecting behavior, when new behavior is acquired, how previously learned behavior is changing, and whether some behavior has ceased to occur. As it happens, most acts of humans are repeated many times. These acts are distributed across time in a person's behavior stream. Taken together they constitute an operant unit that itself has properties that can change over time. Even though an operant may change over time, it is still one and the same unit or we couldn't speak of it's "changing". Just as we think of any organism as the "same" organism even though it changes a great deal during a lifetime and each of its cells exists only a short while, we can think of an operant as the "same" operant even though each of its recurring acts exists only briefly in the behavior stream. Just as the organism is the sum total of its cells at any one time segment, so the operant is the sum total of its repeating acts during any one time segment. When we measure an operant, we are interested in properties of a series of acts that constitute the operant as a whole.
The most frequently used way to measure an operant is to count repetitions of an act as they occur. Snowball's first lever press is counted as "1"; if a second lever press occurs, it is counted as "2", etc. Let us say that we counted 10 lever presses as we observed Snowball in the laboratory on one occasion and 10 presses on a second occasion. This kind of measure is called a frequency count. What would it tell us about Snowball"s leverpressing? Not much that is very useful because we don't have enough information. What if we had observed Snowball for 10 minutes on one occasion and only 1 minute on the second occasion? Pressing 10 times in 10 minutes is different than pressing 10 times in 1 minute. Snowball's rate of leverpressing differed greatly on the two occasions even though we obtained the same frequency count. Although frequency can be misleading, rate turns out to be a very useful measure of operants.
To obtain Snowball's rate of leverpressing on each of the two occasions, we converted the frequency for each occasion into a rate measure by dividing the count we obtained on each occasion by the amount of time we spent observing and counting. Ten leverpresses in 10 minutes is a rate of 1 press per minute on the first occasion. Ten leverpresses in 1 minute is a rate of 10 per minute on the second occasion. By considering the period of time during which the acts were counted, we have a good way to compare the behavior on the first occasion to the behavior on the second occasion.
Sometimes behavior analysts just report frequency measures and do not convert them to rate. We can do that if we hold constant the time of the observation periods. If we always measure lever pressing for periods of 10 minutes, or 1 hour, or any other constant amount of time, then we can compare the behavior during one time segment to the behavior during another time segment. In effect, we are comparing rates but because the denominator (time) is constant, we can simply compare the numbers of the numerators (frequencies) for consecutive observation periods. Rate (count divided by time during which counting was done) has turned out to be a very useful measure of behavior, both for the science and the practice of behavior analysis.
There are other useful measures of operant units besides rate and we will give an example of two of them in the section below.
12. An operant's constituent acts are distributed across _______________ in a person's behavior stream.
13. Counting occurrences of an operant is one way to _______________ it.
14. To measure the rate of an operant, you count occurrences of an act and also keep a record of the _______________ during which you are counting.
15. Then you divide the _______________ by 16. the amount of _______________ during which you were counting occurrences.
When we measure an operant in terms of its rate, we are grouping together all the acts that occur during a particular time segment and looking at them as a whole. When the whole is measured in terms of its rate, it is measured by counting the number of occurrences and dividing it by the amount of time during which we measured. The rate measure captures a property of an operant unit during any particular segment of time.
If the rate changes across time segments, we can say that the operant is changing.
Let's see how we might examine changes in an operant over time. Let's say we measured Joe's doorbell pressing by counting the presses for each year of the first 30 years of his life. Note that in measuring Joe's doorbell pressing, we measure two things. We count Joe's doorbell presses and we time how long we are doing the counting. At the end of a standard amount of time (1 year) we start a new time segment and begin a new count. If we simply counted the presses for 30 years, all we would know at the end of 30 years is that Joe's act of doorbell pressing occurred 3,473 times. We would have no way of knowing if Joe's doorbell pressing ebbed and flowed over time in Joe's behavior stream. By keeping track of the time that passes while we are counting, we can look at the rate of Joe's doorbell pressing during different time segments of equal length.
Here is a graph showing the frequency of Joe's doorbell pressing for each of the first 30 years of his life:
In this case, time segments were all the same length so the frequency of pressing for each year was displayed on the graph. The length of time for each period of observation is somewhat arbitrary in this case - the frequencies could have been counted in 6-month time segments or in 1-month time segments as well as in 1-year time segments. By comparing the frequencies of different time segments, we can see the operant is undergoing change. The data in the graph shows several kinds of change in the operant over the 30 years of data collection. We can see from the graph that Joe pressed doorbells with increasing frequency during each of his first 9 years. During the next 9 years, his doorbell pressing was distributed fairly evenly - between about 40 and 50 doorbell presses each year. Then we saw that Joe's doorbell pressing increased in frequency to 400 presses during the year Joe was 19. For each of the next 6 years, Joe's doorbell pressing occurred between 380 and 550 times each year. Finally, we see that frequency decreased to 28 doorbell presses the year Joe turned 26 and his pressing continued to occur between 25 and 30 times a year for the next 4 years.
Although we have no information as to why Joe's doorbell pressing went through these rather dramatic changes, the data suggest that Joe's behavioral environment changed a great deal when he was 19 and that it changed again when he was 26. We may want to guess about what changes occurred in Joe's behavioral environment at those times, but since we can't return to the past, we will never know for sure what caused Joe's operant of doorbell pressing to change so dramatically at two different times in his first 30 years. In order to know for sure what causes any particular behavior change, we must use the experimental method. That is the topic of the next reading.
Sometimes behavior analysts find it useful to use measures of operant behavior other than rate. The way behavior is measured in behavior analysis depends on the property of behavior that is of interest to the person doing the measuring. If we are interested in increasing the length of time a child plays cooperatively with other children during the first 10 minutes of recess, then we would use duration as the measure of the behavior of interest. Once we have a behavioral definition of "cooperative play, we can measure with a stopwatch the total duration of time the child plays cooperatively during the first 10 minutes of recess each day. We can see if the duration is increasing, decreasing or remaining the same across days.
If we are interested in decreasing the latency between an instruction and a person's following the instruction, we can measure the time between an instruction and initiation of the instructed behavior. Because we are interested in the overall latency of "instruction following", and not the latency of following any particular instruction, we have to measure each instance of instruction-following and then find the average latency. The average latencies can then be compared across days to see if the behavior is changing.
Before leaving the topic of measurement, we will point out that we are usually interested in how to produce a measurable change in an operant. Is our friend returning our calls less or more often than in the past? Can we do something to decrease the latency of our son's coming to dinner when we call? Can we increase the frequency with which our daughter completes homework assignments? Can we decrease the duration of a child's temper tantrums? Can we increase the force with which we lift weights? In order to accomplish goals like these, we must first have a way to measure what is occurring. The measure we are ultimately interested in are almost always measures of an operant unit - not measures of single acts.
Look at the graph that shows Joe's doorbell pressing operant as it exists year by year over 30 time segments of one-year each.
17. What can you say about Joe's rate of doorbell pressing over the first 9 years?
a. was stable
b. increased steadily
c. decreased steadily
d. increased, then decreased
18. What can you say about Joe's doorbell pressing rates over the first 18 years?
a. was stable throughout
b. increased over the first 9 years and then decreased during the next 9 years
c. increased over the first 9 years and then remained stable for the next 9 years
d. increased steadily
19. If Joe spent some of his first 30 years working as a door-to-door salesman, what is likely to have been the first and last year of his sales career?
a. 19 and 25
b. 17 and 30 vc. 19 and 30
d. 24 and 30
20. The graph is designed to depict a(n) _______________ unit 21. as it exists each year over a period of _______________ years.
22. The operant, measured in terms of rate of occurrence, is seen to be changing during some time segments and remaining stable during other time segments. Between what 2 years was there the greatest change in the rate of Joe's doorbell pressing?
a. between 22 and 23
b. between 10 and 11
c. between 18 and 19
d. between 25 and 26
23. An operant unit is made up of a string of acts that may be widely distributed across _______________ .
Applied behavior analysts often want to get a measure of an operant's rate. Sometimes they do that by observing the behavior continuously over some period of time and counting each occurrence. If they divide the number of occurrences by the amount of time they observed occurrences, they will have a measure of the operant's rate. This method of obtaining a rate measure is sometimes called event recording. When the BOI occurs, that event is counted.
Sometimes event recording cannot be accomplished so that good measures of the BOI can be obtained. So applied behavior analysts have devised other ways to get measures of rate. The other ways are actually estimates of the rate, but research has shown that they can be very good estimates. Very often, a good estimate of the rate of an operant is sufficient. The point is to measure behavior accurately enough to be able to tell if the behavior changes when an intervention is tried. Lesson 3 in your textbook, which you read for this module, is about event recording as well as methods of observation that yield estimates of rate measures. In addition to the direct measure of frequency accomplished by counting occurrences of an act, three other methods of direct observation are discussed; outcome recording, interval recording, and time sample recording.
In outcome recording, the behavior itself does not have to be observed but the product or outcome of the behavior is observed. Teachers often use outcome recording as a measure of student behavior. If a teacher counts 19 correct answers on a student's math test, the answers on the test are assumed to be the outcome or product of a particular learner's math behavior. Of course, it is possible that the answers are products of behavior other than that which the teacher wants to measure. For example, the answers rather than being the outcome or product of the student's mathematical acts, the answers may be the outcome of the behavior of reading the answers off a cheat sheet. Or it could be the case that the answers are the outcome of another student's mathematical acts and not those of the student whose name is on the paper. Despite the possibility that the outcomes counted may not always be the outcomes of the behavior of interest, outcome recording is a very useful way to measure some behavior.
Interval recording is another indirect measure of rate. It is most useful when instances of the behavior vary a great deal in duration. For example, if you were measuring crying, and sometimes an individual cried for 3 seconds, sometimes a minute or more and sometimes an hour at a time without stopping, counting occurrences of crying (event recording) could be very misleading. On one day, you may count 2 instances but the individual was crying for a total of 40 minutes, whereas on another day you could count 10 instances but the individual was crying for a total of 1 minute. In one kind of interval recording (partial-interval), the observation period is divided into intervals of equal length and if the behavior occurs at any time during an interval, a mark is made (for example a +). Each interval that passes with none of the BOI occurring is recorded with another mark (for example a - ). At the end of the observation period, the observer tallies the number of intervals during which the behavior occurred any time during the interval and the number of intervals during which none of the behavior occurred. Intervals are usually quite short in this method, often about 10 seconds. Observation periods are often about one hour. In another kind of interval recording (whole-interval), the behavior must be occurring throughout the entire interval to be marked as having occurred. This kind of recording is often used when the goal is to increase the duration of behavior that needs to be sustained for prolonged periods--for example, studying or playing cooperatively.
The last indirect measure of rate we will discuss is called time sample recording, or time sampling. The observation period is divided into equal intervals and brief observations are made at the end of each interval. If the behavior is occurring at the time of an observation, the interval is marked one way; if the behavior is not occurring at the time of an observation, the interval is marked another way. This kind of recording method allows the observer to do other things in addition to observing the BOI during the observation period.
24. The method of direct observation that counts each occurrence of an act at the time it occurs is called _______________ recording.
25. The method of direct observation that divides the observation period into intervals during which the observer makes a mark in each interval indicating behavior occurred or didn't is called _______________ recording.
26. The method of direct observation in which the observer counts a product of the behavior of interest is called _______________ recording
27. The method of direct observation in which the observer divides the observation period into intervals and observes briefly at the end of each interval is called _______________ recording.


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