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On The Verge

O’ Death

Brooklyn, NY
Offbeat Americana
www.odeath.net

O’ Death formed on an artsy college campus located between upstate New York and Brooklyn, so it makes sense that the group’s sound is a comfortable mix of rustic instruments and urban clatter. After fine-tuning its trademark blend of folk, bluegrass, swing, jazz, gypsy-punk and metal in college, the band relocated to New York and quickly honed its live skills by playing 100 shows in 2006 alone. “Sometimes we get into a certain part of a song where we can feel it physically, as well as musically,” guitarist Greg Jamie admits. “It’s important for a performance to have a visual element, but I think we all just try to keep the music as honest as possible.” That honesty is evident on the band’s accomplished 2008 release Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin, a high-energy, 14-track set that contrasts fiddles and banjos with metal and punk riffs. The group also recently spent time working on a split 7” with Murder by Death—which finds the two bands covering each others songs—and kicked off 2009 by announcing a string of high-profile dates with Les Claypool. “Primus is unusual, interesting and hard to define,” Jamie admits. “And I would like to think people would say something similar about what we offer.”

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Auth April 20, 2012, 18:48:38

Love today’s entry Mo! Maddy, 2, is a fan of Angry Birds on the iPhone, BunnyBop on the laptop and a etviray of peekaboo and animal/alphabet games online. Her big sister, 5, plays virtual dressup and terrifies me by randomly clicking videos on youtube (no serious mis-clicks yet unless you count the nomnom song). Then there are the times when you get a random question like what is a manatee, mom? and voila, facts, pictures, videos and sound effects at your fingertips. I can’t really complain though, their computer time is likely less than 5% of my own use. It seems that they would rather play with me, each other or their toys.I’ve tentatively made a plan. They will learn to use computers at home where I can monitor, help and hopefully instill some restraint. The computers will always be in a common area no bedroom laptops (especially for teens) and, hopefully, no cell phones until they’re old enough to get a job and pay for one. I’m sure that our parents had similar concerns with cable tv in our youth and one big bonus for parents today is that our kids don’t have to settle for garbage in/garbage out. Computers generally and the internet in particular are the equivalent of having the absolute best encyclopedia what better resource to plan your outdoor excursions?