06/30/2008
Last week for Double Dee & Steinski in FLAC format (in music & sound)
If you've been holding off on purchasing Douglas's and my live set from a few months ago because you're saving up to get $7.00 for the FLAC file, it's time to get your finances in order and your butt in gear; that file is going down for a while, ... Read More
06/19/2008
Wondering what to do with your spare money? (in music & sound)
Christie's is auctioning off 329 pieces of James Brown memorabilia on July 17. Thanks to Dave The Spazz for the tip. Read More
06/17/2008
A giant passes (in music & sound)
Tony Schwartz died last Saturday. There are several excellent obituaries about his life and work, including one by Doug Schulkind of WFMU. Schwartz pioneered so many of the modern techniques of audio communication that, in my opinion, ther ... Read More
05/28/2008
Nauseating self-promotion (now improved with even more self-promotion) (in music & sound)
In a true coincidence of Life Itself, the week I vanish to deal with important personal issues is the week my retrospective on illegal art drops in the marketplace. "It's an irony of musical history that one of the greatest hip-hop singles ev ... Read More
05/08/2008
(1) Where have I been? (2) Where am I going? (3) What's happening? (in music & sound)
(1) My apologies to everyone who checked this page for the zillionth time, found nothing going on, and figured I'd just fallen the hell off and that was the end of it. Truth of the matter is, I've received some dramatic news of a personal n ... Read More
04/10/2008
Who knew? (in music & sound)
Thanks to DJ Food for scouting this little-known but essential link between the cocktail and the collie. Read More
04/07/2008
Lesson 3 Live At Roseland, 11/20/02 (in music & sound)
Douglas handed off this bit of Double Dee & Steinski history this afternoon: our first live performance ever. We opened for DJ Shadow's Private Press show in NYC on November 20th of 2002. With only 9 days to get ready (and running two unsynch ... Read More
Coming soon (in music & sound)
As soon as I work out the e-commerce stuff (currently in progress). Douglas did a great job on the mastering and the artwork. This is the set from the second night of the Hard Sell tour in NY, we opened for DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist. I mentio ... Read More
"So Steve, how was SxSW?" (in music & sound)
How would I know? I was sick the whole time, lying groggily in the hotel between gigs. But thanks to the diligent efforts of the crew at Fanatic Promotion, I did make time for a video interview. Ali Maclean did her best to make me sound lucid an ... Read More
Stein visits Zurich, investigates gnomes (in music & sound)
The kind folks at the Red Bull Music Academy are freighting my fat butt over to Zurich this weekend to participate in one of their info sessions. I'll be playing in Lausanne Friday night and Zurich Saturday night (no details, but if you're wi ... Read More