Essay on Jason Martin

Jason Martin is, in the expression of his personality through his art, a living relic. Last Thursday night, he was in his most apt context as a performer. The location: a museum on a hill in an urban wasteland with abandoned factories, well...

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Veronica Lake

was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1919 (some sources say 1922) with the birth name of Constance Frances Marie Ockleman. Her father worked for an oil company as a ship employee. While still a child, Veronica’s parents moved to...

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Vulcanic lake,

the dead sea: no fish, weedless, sunk deep in the earth. A dead sea in a dead land, grey and old. Old now. It bore the oldest, the first race. The oldest people. Wandered far away over all the earth, captivity to captivity, multiplying, dying...

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Boomerang Update

The Boomerang Project has been created to release previously unseen music and writing by the late James Kopta. There is a special section in the DeptEx shop devoted to James’ work. All money from the sale of these items goes in to the...

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Nashville

I’m informed that this is the buckle of the bible belt. Yes. Here I am in Nashville, TN. It’s late on July 28, 2004. The first Brown Cuts Neighbors 7″ record, “Broken Down Like A Bean” (by all accounts a mastering...

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THE JOB

Recording engineers operate and maintain sound recording equipment. They may also work special effects equipment. These engineers install, test, repair, set up and operate the electronic equipment used to record and transmit radio signals. They...

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… this and that …

The Denim + Diamonds EP “Street Medics Unite” is now out on Bloodlink Records.. pick your copy up at a show or look for it in our shop or your local music store by the end of the month or so… If you haven’t been to the Schenectady Museum yet to...

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