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Here’s a chance for all of you in the remotest parts of the world, to see a short live set and interview on line with yours truly and our band the New Town Drunks. This will be done live this Monday at 4pm here. I know some of you have heard some recordings, but [...] Where did all the jingle writers go? Seems we no longer have product specific songs and instead we just get a bunch of songs re-purposed for advertisement use. Not that long ago, there were some very dedicated people writing complete songs to be eternally associated with a product and nothing more. Here’s Mick, [...] And you thought the hamsterdance was history… s Merge Records is celebrating 20 years this weekend. An incredible accomplishment considering how hard it is to maintain an independent label afloat, much less make it thrive over the span of two decades. The party here in Carrboro started on Wednesday and continues until Sunday. A lot of the bands who are or [...] Recent developments from the great Eastern European choral tradition: Ok, so you can do this and this is what you choose to do? ok then. I guess it makes sense in some way, though this makes more sense to me. And by the way these people are from Slovenia. And they have [...] Irish Car Bomb, Puerto Rican style: El Machetero: shot of Ron de Barrilito in a cerveza Medalla. That’s all for now…. back to the beach. I think I’m in love. I don’t know how I missed her whenever it was that I missed her. Maybe you missed her too. If so, here she is, the lovely Leslie Hall and her LYs. This is how I happened upon this shinning star. I was innocently ignoring a kids TV show [...] Calle 54 is an old music doc by today’s standards. It came out in 2000 so it’s no longer news. But I just watched it recently and there were some clips in it that were just mind blowing. The doc is very nicely put together, it’s object is to present in one group [...] >#>>#>#>>#>#>>#>#>>#>#>>#>>#>>#>>#>>#>>#>#>>#>> >#>>#>>#>#>>#>>#>#>>#>>#>#>>#>>#>#>>#>>#>#>>#>># >>#>>#>#>>>>#>#>>#>>>>#>#>#>>>#>>#>$>#>$>#>$>#>$>#>|>$>#|>>$>#}>>B>>>B>B>>>B>B>B>>B>B>B>>B>>B>>B>B>B>B>>B>>B>B>>B>B B A review of our new record said that some of the songs “possess a foreign quality which I’ll stop short of referring to as English translated ye ye pop”. I love that. I love any mentions of yé yé, and even more that someone is comparing us to yé yé. Tomorrow (Friday, June [...] |
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