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NYTimes.com: Chefs Using Marijuana Create a New Kitchen Culture

Posted on Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

EVEN preschool teachers unwind with a round of drinks now and then. But in professional kitchens, where the hours are long, the pace intense and the goal is to deliver pleasure, the need to blow off steam has long involved substances that are mind-altering and, often enough, illegal.

“Everybody smokes dope after work,” said Anthony Bourdain, the author and chef who made his name chronicling drugs and debauchery in professional kitchens. “People you would never imagine.”

So while it should not come as a surprise that some chefs get high, it’s less often noted that drug use in the kitchen can change the experience in the dining room.

In the 1980s, cocaine helped fuel the frenetic open kitchens and boisterous dining rooms that were the incubators of celebrity chef culture. Today, a small but influential band of cooks says both their chin-dripping, carbohydrate-heavy food and the accessible, feel-good mood in their dining rooms are influenced by the kind of herb that can get people arrested.

Call it haute stoner cuisine.

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Album of the day: Red Sparowes – The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer

Posted on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Lovinly pinched from Popmatters: L.A. post-rock heroes return with their third full-length release. It starts with a whisper: A heavily delayed guitar fills the sonic floor, swells and echoes and reverberates, and soon the room is filled with crashing, triumphant drums and double-tracked guitars aiming for the heavens. But just ...read more

Album of the day: Dead Meadow – The Three Kings

Posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Dusted Reviews: Since their first album in 2000, DC’s Dead Meadow haven’t so much evolved as honed. From the beginning, they’ve mined the past for heavy psychedelic influences, and while their early albums have a distinct grittiness as compared to their more recent releases, it’s hard to ...read more

Album of the day: Master Musicians of Bukkake – Totem One

Posted on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Obsidian Grave: Sun City Girls fans! Drone-doom freaks! Here’s your unlikely crossover dream come true, kind of. A psychedelically heavy (sometimes) and always eerily exotic new album on the Conspiracy label from this band with the wise ass faux-ethnic name . Now including members of Earth and ...read more

The Exile of Satan from Heavy Metal Design: the art of Seldon Hunt, Stephen O’Malley & Aaron Turner

Posted on Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Those “heavy metal” bands that debuted during that first palmy MTV generation sound like nontoxic pop compared to today’s vast offerings of subaltern metal genres, where intricate is the new heavy, and glacially slow is far more radical than hyperfast. Metal has evolved in such diverse directions—drawing from and crossing ...read more

Shrinebuilder: fan filmed footage posted on line

Posted on Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Some video clips of Shrinebuilder’s  first ever live  performances (Viper Room, Los Angeles, 11/11/09 and Empty Bottle, Chicago, 11/14/09) have been posted online, including a cover version of Joy Divisons 24 Hours.  The videos can be viewed below. Roadburn is also very pleased to report that doom supergroup Shrinebuilder will ...read more

Them Crooked Vultures interviewed by Arthur Magazine

Posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Jay Babcock of Arthur Magazine recently conducted an interview with John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin-fame) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age / Kyuss).  An excerpt from the chat follows below. Arthur: Josh, you go back a long ways with Chris Goss [Masters of Reality, Goon Moon, etc] ...read more

Blue Cheer’s Dickie Peterson remembered

Posted on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

For those who didn’t get to take part in the Roadburn festival 2007, and for those who did, but want to relive BLUE CHEER, here’s the link to the audio stream (as a tribute to the late DICKIE PETERSON). Peterson, age 63, died in Erkelenz, Germany, where he lived, on ...read more

RIP Blue Cheer’s Dickie Peterson – Black Sabbath Online Forums

Posted on Monday, October 12th, 2009

Dickie Peterson, Bassist and Singer for Blue Cheer, passed away this morning at 5am in Germany. Causes still have not been released to the public, I learned of his death through the Blue Cheer Myspace and Facebook accounts. Truly a legend, a man who was credited for introducing a proto ...read more

Playlist: September (Aligator Descartes)

Posted on Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The Roadburn playlist is a monthly update from the Roadburn staff reflecting what we are spinning here in the head office. These are the records that get us through the day as we work on Roadburn Festival business and our blog. Much as you’d expect, our playlists feature heavy rock, ...read more

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