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Steve's White Earbuds

Pressing your buttons

About Me

Off the meat market, on to the job fair. I write for Resident Advisor , New City Chicago and my own blog, linked below.Little White Earbuds will help hook up your ears .

My Interests

Listening to music, writing about music, hating on commercials, obsessing over the news, the written word, electronic music, djing, talking like I know what's up.

I'd like to meet:

Beggars unafraid to be choosers. People in Chicago who like techno and house music. People abroad who like techno and house music. DJs and musicians. Writers!

Music:


Lately I've been listening to: Âme, Blaze, James Brown, Carl Craig, Dinosaur L, Efdemin, Genesis, Herbert, The KLF, Jeff Mills, Neu!, Omar-S, Henrik Schwarz, Andy Stott, Stevie Wonder

Movies:

Rules of Attraction, Amarcord, City of God, Man Bites Dog, High Fidelity, The Gold Rush, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The 400 Blows, About a Boy, Knife In the Water, Diabolique, The Princess Bride, A Hard Day's Night, The City Lights, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Hours, American Splendor, Satyricon, That Obscure Object of Desire, Ghost Dog, Annie Hall

Television:

The Wire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Project Runway, Extras, House, Arrested Development (RIP), Degrassi, Ugly Betty, The Office, Boston Legal, Frontline, The News Hour, The McLaughlin Group

Books:

Books by: Ernest Hemingway, Mike Royko, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Graham Greene, J.D. Salinger, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ayn Rand

My Blog

Little White Earbuds August Charts

01. Raz Ohara, "Whitmey Na" (Raz Vocal Nass remix) [Kindisch]02. Serafin & Roman Bruderer, "The Move" [Mountain People]03. Will Saul & Lee Jones, "Hug the Scary" (Partial Arts Remake) [Aus Music]04. B...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:33:00 PST

Little White Earbuds June Charts

01. Paul Kalkbrenner, "Kamuffel" [BPitch Control] Kalkbrenner finds the best way to bring back trance is to frame it in spidery Ashra guitar licks and twinkling keyboard patter, then just bulldoze ah...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:55:00 PST

Little White Earbuds May Charts

Top five tracks are no better or worse than the other 10 Hits, just chose to write about them. Same for the Misses.Hits01. Âme, "Enoi" [Innervisions]Yet another stunning single from the "Do No Wrong C...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:00:00 PST

Little White Earbuds April Charts

Top five tracks are no better or worse than the other 10 Hits, just chose to write about them. Same for the Misses. Download the first five tracks on my blog.Hits01. Stardiver, "Another Moment of Sile...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Wed, 02 May 2007 07:53:00 PST

March charts

01. Lopazz, "Gimme Gimme" [Get Physical] 02. Junior Boys, "Like a Child" (Carl Craig remix) [Domino USA] 03. Monoroom, "Memory Inc. Part 2" (Gui Boratto remix) [Live Large Recordings] 04. Lee Jones, "...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:03:00 PST

Chicagoans! Vote against Daley tomorrow!

I know it's naive to expect anyone else to win at this point, but it's important to make a statement to the Daley machine that we're not happy with the way he or his slush-funded cronies spend our mon...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:52:00 PST

Phishing alert - Watch out for bulletins about a party

If you're as stupid as I am and click on the link in said bulletin, your Myspace will likely get sentient cyber diarrhea. Protect ya neck.
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:57:00 PST

Eff my top 8, DJ top 8 takeover

Stunt! Go read my fucking blog.
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:53:00 PST

SKULLS, the ubiquitous symbol of design idiots

Screen-printing skulls (or skeletons, same diff) onto any piece of clothing you can think of does not make you a clothing label. It makes you a bunch of glorified 8th graders who know how to Google se...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:44:00 PST

The Simpsons should be canceled

I couldn't sit through more than five minutes of the season premiere. It's a brand name that no longer bears any resemblence to its former great self. If FOX is smart, they'll cancel it before the nam...
Posted by Steve's White Earbuds on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:30:00 PST