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Beat Blenders

Wild Planet’s Beat Blenders Girls of Slender Means by WOWCOOL Picked up this pair a few years ago and did damn little with them. Finally broke them out for the “Girls of Slender Means” sessions with Mike and Nick of nickname: Rebel (excerpt above). It’s a tricky double-backed beast and deserves [...] [...]

Offset Needle Radius Vs. nickname: Rebel Spring Tour Dates Announced

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A unique opportunity to witness improvised sound structuring from two reunited veterans of D.I.Y. and underground music movements. Joshua Baker’s Offset Needle Radius from Kittery Maine, will perform with Marc Arsenault from Nickname: Rebel of San Jose. California in a four city tour of the American Northeast. The Offset Needle Radius Vs. nickname Rebel LP will [...] [...]

Analog TV Bye Bye false start

Bruce Sterling’s Eulogy for Analog TV from The Long Now Foundation on Vimeo. Here’s what Bruce Sterling has to say. More info at the UC Berkeley Funeral for Analog TV page (an event I totally failed to attend yesterday). Many channels did stop their regular analog broadcast transmissions on Tuesday (well, at least two in my [...] [...]

Set the controls for the heart of the VCR

Continuing with the Pink Floyd theme, this hypnotic video is from Mark Sunshine’s Armoredbaby YouTube channel. Mark is an old friend, collaborator, creator of the classic Montezuma’s Revenge video game graphics, artist, musician, designer and contributor to the late, great Tuna Casserole books from the early Wow Cool era; and he has not gotten [...] [...]

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