San Franciscans, get Funk N Chunk to cater your next backyard barbecue and not only will you have bourbon coffee pulled pork, stuffed Niman Ranch steaks, fresh local oysters, corn-on-the-cob, and more to stuff your belly with, but also an endless stream of hip-hop funk from live DJs to help ease the digestion. A funk-less barbecue would just be wrong. [via SFoodie]... More
British DJ Mr. Scruff must really like pie. Why else would he have made a music video portraying a city of potato-shaped people making pies and carrying them around like the hottest new accessory? Even the animals and robots love pie. Watch this animated world of pie excess after the jump.... More
Who needs guitars, keyboards or drums when you can use carrot recorders, celeriac bongos and leek violins? The 11 members of The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra create music from vegetables—sometimes modified, sometimes not—influenced by electronic sounds in contemporary electronic music. It's serious music that sounds better than anything I could play on a real instrument; take a listen or watch this video of their pre-concert preparations and performance: If you live in Austria you can see The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra perform live tomorrow.... More
Josh Friedland, proprietor of the über-useful Food Section blog, complied a neat list of 100 songs for food lovers last week for something called "Blogger Radio" on AOL Radio. It's a neat idea, and one that I've been employing almost since the date that Apple launched its iTunes Music Store. I've made mixes, for instance, to soundtrack a number of dinner parties, cookouts, and early-morning brunch feeds.... More
I love the "Listening With" features in the New York Times even when they don't have cooking references, but this quote by the great jazz singer Dianne Reeves made me fall in love with her. "Explaining how she likes to cook, she said, "It's the same thing with how I sing. I work with my ear to try to make it feel right, or I just keep changing it until I like the way it tastes."... More
On NewTeeVee.com, Karina Longworth checks in with a review of new web-based food show Dinner with the Band. The pilot episode features The Cloud Room: One assumes that a partial goal of the Dinner with the Band gang is to get culinary obsessives hooked on new bands whilst simultaneously introducing indie rock kids to gourmet food. They certainly have the food half of the hybrid worked out—I can’t imagine any Cloud Room fan watching the pilot and not salivating over the Lemon Gruyere Gnocchi — but they’ve got a few kinks to work out on the indie rock end. In the pilot episode, the audio quality of the live performances (which are shot, like the cooking segments, in Mason’s apartment)... More
Commenting on the PBJ Special Report, Serious Eater Young mentioned that his friends in the band Chaibaba had recorded a song called "PB & J." We checked it out, and it was inspirational. So, in honor of National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, Serious Eats has included Chaibaba's song in a special PBJ iMix on iTunes. After the jump ...... More
Dinner With The Band "shows renowned avant-garde chef Sam Mason as he invites his favorite touring bands to his apartment for an intimate evening of food, conversation and live music." All that's up on the site right now is a pilot, but it looks pretty interesting and the show should be good if they actually start shooting more episodes. Mason was the pastry chef at NYC's WD-50, but left a few months ago to work on opening his own place.... More
All-things-NYC blog Gothamist interviews rock star and food columnist Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand: It seems as though a lot of chefs fancy themselves to be rock stars. Do a lot of rock stars harbor secret desires to become chefs? There are personality traits common to people in both- disregard for conventional life, a desire to travel, swollen egos, tendency to alcohol and substance abuse. More chefs consciously behave like rock stars than rock stars behave like chefs, but that's because most guys in bands don't think about food much. Eating is something they have to do between the important stuff, similar to pissing or throwing up. Having said that, because any vagrant can get a job in a kitchen,... More
Brooklyn guy-girl two-piece Matt and Kim take playing with their food to new extremes in this cute music video. Stay tuned for the last 30 seconds or so.... More
