Once upon a time in the early 1990s I got together with a young Hampshire college student and punk rock juggernaut named Jesse Kimball and Western Connecticut ne’er do well Steve Dore (late of Maude, more recently of Casual Dots & Deep...
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Joshua Baker has released a Bonus track from the upcoming Offset Needle Radius release Fiona’s Week (2011, Offset Sounds Vs. Wow Cool). Give a listen below. More info on the ONR Blog. Whatever T.W.T.D by OffsetSound FIONAS WEEK TRACK...
Read moreMike Nobody has uploaded some vintage 1990s Brown Cuts Neighbors video to his YouTube Channel. First up is the video for X Simple X (above), from 1995’s Squeeze Out Another Twinkle EP on Nose Hair Records. It takes a few seconds for the...
Read moreTonight, January 5, 7PM. Jason Martin will be doing a live music performance for TIDE POOL art show @ Sara Meltzer Gallery – ongoing installation, performances, and a shop curated by Ariel Dill and Denise Kupferschmidt, of the Apartment...
Read moreFormer Magic Band drummer Robert Williams posted this to his MySpace blog this morning. It is an astounding performance. If you can wrap your head around it, then you might get a bit why people can get so crazy about the music of Captain...
Read more2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings...
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It’s not a big secret that I am a huge fan of Nuisance. I booked them twice for shows in Western Massachusetts. Once at a spectacularly disastrous warehouse show in Florence (at the Arts & Industry building, now home to Ecstatic...
Read more“Brooklyn-based musician and visual artist Jason Martin records on 4 track near his upstate NY home in a haunted cabin by a lake that used to be a valley of towns and Indian settlements. Some of them were his ancestors. This album crashes...
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Go get these on for yourselfness Aaron Smith – of Scientific Maps, nickname: Rebel, Stars of Rock and Evolution Revolution fame – has been mixing it up on the wheels of steel on the Bat Terrible show, Thursdays at 4pm, on WCDB 90.9FM...
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So… you’ve read Rip It Up and Start Again, and Simon Reynolds follow-up Totally Wired, and are ass-deep in post-punk lore and legend and spend your days wandering the record stalls humming “She Is Beyond Good and Evil” by...
Read moreI can’t believe I’ve never seen this before. This was way the long ago. Gibson’s hair suggest the 90’s, even. Cosmic. The awesomeness. Enjoy! Video found via beadyface. In other news – not so super unrelated –...
Read moreHaving just recently logged a show where dredging up tunes of a bandtime gone by happened to happen, I don’t think I could be very pious on the subject of rehashing old band tunes from times gone by. But, I was never in Public Image, Ltd...
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