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DUM DUM GIRLS - 2012 TOUR DATES Feb 07 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg * Feb 08 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club * Feb 09 Hamden, CT The Space * Feb 10 Philadelphia, PA Making Time @ Voyeur Nightclub Feb 11 Hoboken, NJ Maxwells * Feb 12 Washington, DC Black Cat * Mar 11 Denton, TX 35 Denton * *  = w/ Widowspeak & Punks On Mars  DON'T MISS PUNKS ON MARS OPENING FOR DUM DUM GIRLS- THE

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View Larger Map      This is a route I recommend for Northern Californians who are driving to Coachella Arts & Music Festival this. (or any year.)  It's a much nicer drive then either alternative- the 15 or the 5 through the Cajon or Grapevine Passes- an alternative driving route, if you will.  So much nicer- OMG- if people only knew. (GOOGLE MAP DIRECTIONS PALM SPRINGS CA TO CALIFORNIA

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COLLEEN GREEN MILO GOES TO COMPTON LP INSOUND PRE-ORDER. (BUY)

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Book Review The Intellectual Milieu of John Dryden by Louis I. Bredvold published University of Michigan Press 1934 this edition Ann Arbor paperbacks 1966 edition    There are some books you'll never find on Amazon because their sales rank is more then 5,000,000 and the Amazon associative system doesn't go down that far.  I can't emphasize how unpopular this book is at Amazon.com. However, at

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N+1 article on history of pitchfork. (N+1 5.4)     I've seen Artists both helped and hindered by Pitchfork, and in both cases I can testify to it's power.  If you are some combination of indie artist/indie label, Pitchfork's approval, in the form of a 7+ album review, is pretty much all you need.  Nothing else.   I suppose one ought to complain, but why? So we can go back to the days when

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TACO BELL ENTERS BREAKFAST ARENA (THE MONITOR) The chain's breakfast staples include burritos stuffed with eggs and either sausage, bacon or steak; sausage and egg wraps; hash browns; hot or iced coffee; and orange juice. Taco Bell is teaming with such recognizable brands as Johnsonville, Cinnabon, Tropicana and Seattle's Best. Menu items range from 99 cents to $2.79.

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  This is a list of "similar artists" from Nickelback's last fm page.  Nickelback has close to 60 million last fm plays and is "one of... the most commercially successful rock acts from Canada of all time. 3 DOORS DOWN: 44 million last fm plays. THEORY OF A DEADMAN: 10 million last fm plays. DAUGHTRY: 16 million last fm plays. BREAKING BENJAMIN:  52 million last fm plays. THREE DAYS GRACE: 50

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DUM DUM GIRLS - 2012 TOUR DATES Feb 07 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg * Feb 08 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club * Feb 09 Hamden, CT The Space * Feb 10 Philadelphia, PA Making Time @ Voyeur Nightclub +Feb 11 Hoboken, NJ Maxwells * Feb 12 Washington, DC Black Cat * Mar 11 Denton, TX 35 Denton Mar 22 La Laiterie Strasbourg, France Mar 29 Auditorium Flog Florence Fi, Italy Mar 30 Moon Club

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DIRTY BEACHES 2012 EUROPEAN UNION TOUR DATES  (dates are backwards to Americans- that's how they do it in EU) 4/2  One in a Million Festvial - Baden, Switzerland 7/2  CISIM - Ravenna, Italy 8/2   Astoria - Turin, Italy 9/2   Traffic Club - Rome, Italy 12/2  Festivel Antigel - Geneva, Switzerland 15/2  La Lune Des Pirates- Amiens, France 16/2  La Condition Publique - Lille, France 17/2 La Temps

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IT'S THE 90S! from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo. SURVIVALISM IN THE NINETIES

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TEOTWAWAKI TEOTWAWKI TEOTWAWKI.DIG IT!  All about 90s vintage survivalist movement as a reference point.

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Book Review Matthew Arnold and American Culture by John Henry Raleigh p. 1957 University of California Press   You could say that Matthew Arnold invented modern literary criticism.   He was also the greatest of Victorian critics.  His work is a conduit directly between the philosophy of the 18th century and the academia and journalism of today.   Arnold is not an author who is read by many today

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THIS SATURDAY JANUARY 28TH HEAVY HAWAII WILL CELEBRATE, NAY, CHERISH, THE RETAIL RELEASE OF THEIR NEW SINGLE, SUPER BOWL XXIX AT M THEORY RECORDS IN MISSION HILLS, SAN DIEGO CA. (FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE)   Do you get how it's coming out the week before the Super Bowl this year?  THATS WHAT YOU CALL PUBLIC RELATIONS SAVVY.   THIS RECORD IS ON ART FAG RECORDINGS.

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BOOK REVIEW Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music, And An Industry in Crisis by Fred Goodman p. 2010 Simon & Shuster   Did you ever wonder what it would feel like to lose twenty billion dollars dabbling in the music business?  If so, Fortune's Fool: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Warner Music and An Industry in Crisis, is the book for you!   Part obituary for the music business after the

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         After the release of the Turning On, a self-recorded collection of CD-Rs filled with tuneful alt-punk songs wrapped in tinfoil and steel wool that was released by the tiny California imprint Bridgetown Records.  (PITCHFORK)  Bridgetown Records, run by Kevin Greenspon, has music available for purchase over at their website. (BRIDGETOWN RECORDS)    One thing about Kevin- he's all about

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SHOW REVIEW Tearist BLOUSE DIVERS DJ MARIO ORDONTNO Soda Bar, San Diego, CA.   Last time I went to show was in October of last year, so you can call me "gramps."  Despite my time away, I was pleased to see that nothing has changed since last I checked.  Soda Bar still has those amazing televisions that show a feed of the performer on stage- what a great feature- the old 930 Club in Washington

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TAKE NOTES PLEASE. 03-02 Hoboken, NJ- Maxwell’s 03-03 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar03-04 Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle03-06 Atlanta, GA - The Earl03-07 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree03-09 Orlando, FL - The Plaza Live03-10 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon03-11 Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s #03-17 El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace03-18 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress03-21 Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern03-23 Pamona,

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WATCH CULTS AND FREDDIE GIBBS PERFORM TOGETHER ON STAGE IN NEW YORK (PITCHFORK)

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I AM NOT A HIPSTER (WEB SITE)         It's set in San Diego.  From the preview I watched, that dude most definitively is a hipster, because only hipsters scribble song lyrics/poetry in high school style notebooks when they are 25+.  Normal adults take long hand notes on yellow pads, and they aren't writing song lyrics and/or poetry when they do so.

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MATTHEW ARNOLD BRITISH POET AND CRITIC. (WIKIPEDIA)

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CHRISTMAS ISLAND BACK WITH NEW 12 INCH ON VOLAR RECORDS (SAN DIEGO CITY BEAT)   I like the internal link to the Myspace profile.  At least do the Last.fm profile if you're going to link to Myspace.

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    There are three (four?) main bodies of Aesthetic principles that any self-respecting Artist or Audience member ought to be aware of.  Classical, Romantic & Modern (Post-Modern?)  Today, everyone understands the aesthetic principles of Modernism, varied as they may be, but few people are truly conversant with Classical aesthetic principles themselves.  Or rather, any understanding of those

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BOOK REVIEW From Classic to Romantic: Premises of Taste in Eighteenth Century England by Walter Jackson Bate Harper Torchbooks originally published 1946 this edition 1961    What's amazing about this particular volume is how I acquired it.  You see, I went to the once monthly San Diego Public Library book sale at their location in San Carlos.  All the action at these sales takes place in the

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COLLEEN GREEN MILO GOES TO COMPTON AMAZON LISTING OUT 2/21/12 ON ART FAG RECORDINGS I THINK THIS IS AN ALBUM OF THE YEAR CONTENDER. LISTEN TO CLIPS AT AMAZON.

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  Classical, Romantic and Modern Aesthetics all have their own principles that they use to judge Artists and Art Products.   Classical Aesthetics was very rule-bound, so the judging of Artists was always accompanied by statements about whether specific works of Art obeyed or flouted supposed rules of Art.   Romantic Aesthetics took the opposite posture, specifically attacking the allegedly

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FESTIVEL ANTIGEL IN GENEVA SWITZERLAND WITH DIRTY BEACHES & HANNI EL KATIB ITS FUNNY BECAUSE HANNI EL KATIB STOLE DIRTY BEACHES ACT.

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  Perhaps I'm not the most appropriate person to say that Punks On Mars is a hot new band, since I am a partner in the record label that put out his new record.  But the way I look at it, the worst that could happen is some other record label would get all excited and offer him a record deal- and I'm sure the Artist- Ryan Howe, for Punks On Mars would be stoked if that happened, so I figure...why

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BON JOVI'S LIVIN' ON A PRAYER MUSIC VIDEO VEVO YOU TUBE The theme of a young couple sacrificing money for love is a Romantic Theme.  It is not a "Classicist" theme because the Romans and a Greek didn't really celebrate romantic love itself, let alone sacrificing money for that love.   The song lyrics of Livin' On A Prayer embody the Romantic ideal.  However, the video is footage of them

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LIST OF STATIONS UP FOR 2011 CMJ AWARDS W/ LINKS TO THOSE STATIONS. (RADIO SURVIVOR)

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BOOK REVIEW Camilla by Frances Burney Oxford's World Classics Edition p. 2009 Originally Published 1796    Frances Burney had hits for days.  As I've observed here, Artist biography's tend to fall into hagiographic or psychological modes of analysis.  Rare is the Artist biography to address the market conditions that shaped Artist output in any significant way.  Certainly, as one proceeds back

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EVENT PREVIEW Tearist Blouse Divers Friday, January 20th, 2012 @ The Soda Bar San Diego, CA. FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE BUY TICKETS 7 USD    I shouldn't have to tell you all that this show is a must go.  TEARIST- hottest band in the LA underground, Blouse- on New York's finest independent, CAPTURED TRACKS and Divers- who I hear has something coming out on Dream

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Book Review Classic, Romantic & Modern by Jacques Barzun p. 1961 Little, Brown & Company     Jacques Barzun is a prolific academic/writer- still alive!  He taught at Columbia History and is credited by Wikipedia with being a founder of the discipline of Cultural History.  Classic, Romantic & Modern is his circa 1960s take on the three major styles of artistic production in the last three hundred

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Amazon.com Neptune's Lair by Drexciya (CUSTOMER REVIEWS)  7/17/2000 PITCHFORK DREXCIYA: JOURNEY OF THE DEEP IS BEST NEW REISSUE (PITCHFORK ALBUM REVIEWS)  1/13/2012

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BOOK REVIEW Cannibals & Kings: The Origins of Cultures by Marvin Harris Author of Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches: The Riddles of Culture Random House New York p. 1977     This book is an illustration of a fundamental critique of social sciences.  That critique is best illustrated by R. P. Feynman's 2 minute video:    'They're not scientists."     This is a fair point.  Social Science isn't

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  I know that people don't write "their" own twitter feeds & that corporations have twitter feeds for brands and specific products, but what's up with those people sucking at what they do?  So help me God if you are paid to twitter you shouldn't suck at it.

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  I don't normally preview books on this blog but TAFT 2012, written by Jason Heller, looks great.  It even has it's own preview video at Amazon where it's nestled in  at #48 on the books,  Science Fiction & Fantasy/Fantasy/Alternate History Chart (#1 is 11/22/63 by Stephen King- actually the title is the top 3 for paper, hardback and kindle edition, I'd imagine.)   I HAVE NO QUALMS STRONGLY

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  The music business is a bum fight.  The small record labels, unknown artists and writers/bloggers who care about same are a bunch of bums sitting around a fire. A fight breaks out between a record label and an artist over a nickle or a half drunk bottle of scotch, or some other combination, and the rest of the bums sit around watching the fight, and if things get out of control the  Major

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CLOSE TO THE CHEST VS CLOSE TO THE VEST COMPARISON

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  I'm still contemplating Captured Tracks Honcho's Mike Sniper blog on the subject of label poaching.  Six months ago I would probably just said, "Yeah, I agree" but I've changed my mind on the subject.  Now my feeling is, "THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD YOU CAN DO TO STOP BIGGER LABELS FROM TAKING ARTISTS FROM SMALLER LABELS" so I've made my peace with it.  I'm not saying that every Artist from

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Tashaki Miyaki - Get It Right from The Sounds Of Sweet Nothing on Vimeo.   TASHAKI MIYAKI IS FROM LA AND YOU CAN PRE-ORDER THEIR 7" FROM ROUGH TRADE IN ENGLAND. (PRE ORDER TASHAKI MIYAKI 7")

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  Here's my reaction to Coachella 2012's line-up: I'm renting out my Palm Springs vacations house and just reserved a suite for Pitchfork Festival in Chicago this July. A SUITE.  COACHELLA's 2012 LINE UP IS A SAD JOKE.  So I'm going to take the money I make from renting out my Palm Springs Vacation house, and use part of it to travel to Chicago for Pitchfork Festival and have a great time this

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      This is synth-pop noir with a difference. The obvious references are garage rock and girl-group pop, for sure, but there's dream pop and dub in there, too, less predictably, and a fair dollop of David Lynchian "crepusculiarity", a contraction of "crepuscular" and "peculiar" that we just coined, cos we're crazy like that, to connote the after-hours and strange.       It's like the Velvets

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  If there was one institution/entity in indie rock that does not get enough credit or recognition it would be Revolver/Midheaven distribution.  The more I think about what they accomplish and what their values are, the more astonished I get.   Just this week, I read a newspaper article lauding Sub Pop in the Los Angeles Times, and followed that by hearing about Captured Tracks honcho Mike

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JOHN DRYDEN (WIKIPEDIA) Dryden, John indexical entry in Nussbaum, The Triumph of Science and Reason 1660-1685: 9, 29, 30, 54, 56, 58, 59-60, 184. 9:  Dryden, who was a member of the Royal Society, clung to Ptolemaic pharseology. 29:  The contrast of Shakespeare and Dryden is a whole history of the baroque in literature. 30: Bernini and Borromini, Bach and Handel, Rubens, Rembrandt, and El Greco,

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CROCODILES SPRING 2012 TOUR DATES W/ BLEEDING RAINBOW   "FOOD, FOLKS & FUN ON CROCODILES 2012 US SPRING TOUR DATES INCLUDING DATES IN BOSTON, TORONTO, MONTREAL, CHICAGO, MINNEAPOLIS, SEATTLE, OMAHA, DENVER, SALT LAKE CITY, SEATTLE, PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES. NOT TO MENTION SAN DIEGO CA." 2/21/12 until 3/11/12.

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BOOK REVIEW THE TRIUMPH OF SCIENCE AND REASON: 1660-1685 by Frederick L. Nussbaum Harper Torchbooks p. 1962   I got this book at the redoubtable SAGEBRUSH PRESS IN YUCCA VALLEY (ABE BOOKS SHOP PROFILE)  They are my go to get-away book store when I'm weekending in the desert.  They ain't cheap, but I despise cheapness.  Pay for quality and service, is what I say.  I got this particular title for

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BOOK REVIEW NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad Originally published p.1904 This Edition Everyman's Library 38 1962       Does anyone else find it funny that the universal method of teaching high school students about literature/English is by reading Novels/other literature and then "analyzing" it.  Like, describing the plot and asking why the characters did what they did?  That's what I remember.  I

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    Advancing Human Knowledge and Inspiring Artistic Output both involve the self-conscious elaboration of abstractions- whether they be ideas about stem cells, books about psychology or an LP.     Both stem from interests possessed by specific people- that's fairly concrete in the realm of advancing human knowledge- Scientist looking for a cure for a disease because he lost a loved one to that

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HEAVY HAWAII SUPER BOWL XXIX 7" ART FAG RECORDINGS  AF020? AF021? I HAVE NO IDEA AND CATALOG NUMBER IS NOT LISTED AT ART FAG RECORDINGS FOR SALE WORLD WIDE ON JANUARY 31st, 2012

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"As soon as I started putting out tracks I was getting attention. Diplo kept talking about me, and that's when XL hit me up. They flew me out to London, and the original idea was to have me work with [label founder] Richard Russell, and I got signed to this development deal. Richard was cool, but as soon as I didn't want to use his beats, it got real sour. He wound up calling me 'amateur' and

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EVENT PREVIEW JANUARY 11th, 2012 AT THE SHACKELWELL ARMS E8 LONDON ENGLAND BROUGHT TO YOU BY SEXBEAT LONDON

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TROLL GAZE (LONDON TELEGRAPH)

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NT: You have released some stuff on Cassette only labels, what is the attraction to going back to this format for you and other people?AZH: For people like me, the format didn’t matter as long as I could get my music out to more people. I have to thank Shawn Reed from Night People for this, because prior to those tapes, I was literally unknown and ignored in Montreal. Only my friends from

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BOOK REVIEW Wonderland Avenue: A True Rock 'n' Roll Saga by Danny Sugerman p. 1989 Morrow Press MOVIE REVIEW The Doors: When You're Strange 2010 d. Tom DiCillo      Fair to say even The Doors hated The Doors.  That is a consistent theme that emerges from Wonderland Avenue: A True Rock 'n' Roll Saga, penned by Danny Sugerman, who worked  both The Doors as a teenager and for the keyboardist in

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FRIDAY JANUARY 6th 2012 HEAVY HAWAIIDUNES MEMORIAL ASHA5 USD, SODA BAR     Heavy Hawaii is celebrating the upcoming release of the "Super Bowl XXIX" 7 inch coming out January 31. The party is taking place at one of our favorite San Diego spots, The Soda Bar. Dunes, Memorial and Asha will be playing as well along with DJs Marco Gonzalez (Crocodiles), Jeff Graves and Mario Orduno (Art Fag). It's

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BOOK REVIEW The Great Game: The Struggle For Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk p. 1990 Kodansha International   The Great Game is a name for the geo-political struggle between Russia and the U.K. for supremacy in the region that we today call Central Asia, the Chinese Far West and Afghanistan.  This struggle, which bears many similarities to more recent conflicts in this region, took

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NEW YEARS EVE LOS ANGELES WANDA JACKSON AND BEST COAST AT CLUB NOKIA DOWNTOWN. (TICKETS)   HEY WANDA JACKSON IS A  LEGEND SO SHUT THE FUCK UP.  TICKETS ARE 30 TO 50 USD.

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    I have a bit I do in conversation about "DANDIES VS. FOPS"- understanding the difference is key to understanding the meaning of personal style.  Both the Dandy and the Fop are archetypes for contrasting methods of the individual personality and it's relationship with groups of people.     A significant similarity between the two types is that they are both hyper-conscious of their status vis

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29-12  Sydney, Australia -  Peats Ridge Festival 30-12  Melbourne, Australia - Pyramid Rock Festival 31-12  Brisbane, Australia -  No Years Festival 2-1   Sydney, Australia - Oxford Art Factory 3-1  Melbourne, Australia - Corner Hotel 6-1 Auckland, New Zealand - King's Arms   AUSTRALIA//NEW ZEALAND

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BOOK REVIEW New Grub Street by George Gissing Oxford World's Classics Edition p. 2009; originally published in 1891   There are two main problems with the idea and the execution of the"1001 Books to Read Before You Die" series  The first problem is that the editors use the word "BOOKS" to mean "NOVELS."  All 1001 Books to Read Before You Die are Novels, not one is non-fiction.  Even the books

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  A phenomenon I've found distressing is over-celebration by indie labels about year end publicity via list.  Here's something to consider: EVERY LABEL GETS YEAR END LIST PUBLICITY.  I'm not saying that I ain't privately and occasionally keeping score, far from it.  However I am not bugging people to do numerous facebook posts, tweets or website blog posts from an "official label" perspective.  

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  The linguistic turn was a phenomenon of twentieth century philosophy.  A main premise of the linguistic turn is that philosophical problems are caused by misunderstanding language.   This is especially true when there are conflicts between two competing philosophical "truths."  Existing truths include Religion, Science, Law, Economics & Beauty.  Thus, the linguistic turn becomes useful when

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     Psychic Dancehall is Charles Rowland of the Crocodiles and Hollie Cook of the Slits.  Their debut live performance is on January 11th, 2012. (LAST FM EVENT LISTING.)  So many reasons to go I briefly considered purchasing a plane ticket.  I know there are at least two regular readers of this blog in the UK- and I implore you, personally, although your identity is unknown to me,

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PROJECT DAEDALUS

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     The primary value embodied by this blog is probably "INTERESTED IN OTHER PLACES."  Having the capacity to learn about new places is one thing, actually using that capacity to actually learn about new places is another.  This is one area where I envy my travelling Artist friends.  For example, personally, I would gladly tour the minor markets of the mid west and south east, attempting to

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EVENT PREVIEW December 23rd-25th LA Exodus Jewish Soulstice Weekend in the Desert Ace Hotel & Swim Club PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA WITH  RABBINICAL STYLE LECTURES WITH David Kasher Sharon Brous & Susan Goldberg AND STAND UP COMEDY WITH Moshe Kasher Morgan Murphy & Jason Nash w/  Hikes, Jewish yoga (?), Talmudic riddles, Chinese Food, Xmas Dinner & acoustic sets. Sponsored by

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EVENT PREVIEW Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 Dum Dum Girls (solo, acoustic.) Crocodiles (solo, acoustic) Reading Rainbow AKA Bleeding Rainbow (acoustic) Cassie Ramone GLASSLANDS GALLERY BROOKLYN NY (BUY TICKETS 10 USD)  21+    I like how Dee Dee & Brandon are working NYC like they are local artists- playing a show + a month- just for shits and gigs.  Certainly makes sense if you have the Audience

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BOOK REVIEW Kim by Rudyard Kilpling p. 1901 Penguin Classics Edition this edition 2011   Now we're talking classic literature!  After over three years of 18th century and early 19th century novels I can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.  By "light at the end of the tunnel" I mean relieve from the strictures of the 19th century European Realist novel.  Soooo tedious.  I don't read

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BOOK REVIEW On Ancient Central-Asian Tracks by Aurel Stein with an introduction by Jeannette Mirsky p. 1932   I'm kind of obsessed with the area people call "THE CHINESE FAR WEST" AKA the Xinjiang Province.  The primary geographic features are a) an enormous desert b) Tibetan mountains to the South c) Himalayas to the West.  The primary non-physical characteristics of this region is the contrast

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  Part of the way I contribute to Zoo Music is responding to requests from promoters in foreign countries that arrive via pr or our country distributor. These requests range from "send us 5 cds" to let us use a track from the record to promote the upcoming appearance.   The fun part of that is getting to see where these requests are coming from using "the internet."   This week I was taking a

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 Beaters--Fishage LP by Volar Records BEATERS FISHAGE LP OUT NOW ON VOLAR RECORDS. After having toured with the likes of the Soft Pack, the Obits, and Disappears, the long-awaited debut LP by Beaters, 'Fishage,' is finally here. Past releases include the "Fishage" 7" on Volar (our first-ever release!)/Single Screen Records and a 7" on Zoo Music. Purchase the LP here--

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California Unemployment Drops To 11.3 Percent, lowest level since June 2009. (LA TIMES) Florida Unemployment Drops .4 to 10 Percent (MIAMI HERALD) Illinois Unemployment Drops Slightly to 10 Percent (BUSINESS WEEK) Massachusetts Unemployment At 7 Percent (BOSTON GLOBE) Pennsylvania Unemployment Rate Drops To 7.9 Percent (MARKETWATCH)    One of the caveats to recent reductions in Unemployment is

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One Of A Million Musikfestival Baden2/4/12-2/11/12NordportalSchmiedestrasse 12/14 5400 Baden Switzerland LINE UP Kevin Devine (5 million last.fm plays.)Radical Face (2.9 million): MORR Music style DJNils Frahm (790k): pianist.The Black Atlantic: (466k): Dutch rock act.Soley (139k): Icelandic chanteuse.  ****Dirty Beaches (536k)

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   2011 My Year in Music actually started in December 2010. It was after Christmas, I was staying with my wife at the Tambo Del Inka Rest & Spa in Valley Sagrado.  You know, trying to get away from it all?  It was there I discovered that the Dirty Beaches Badlands LP had "leaked."   "Leaked" in the sense that our digital distributor had released the album accidentally, reading the release date

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Sunday December 18th "The Whistle"/Whistle Stop Bar & Grille San Diego CA. The 16th Annual Art Fag Recordings Xmas Party Jam with Label Honcho/DJ Mario Orduno and very special celebrity guest DJ Marco Gonzalez of "The Crocodiles band" FREE/21+        Label Boss Mario Orduno WILL be holding court on the "smokers patio" between sets of  "punk/oldies & jingle jams."  A festive

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EVENT PREVIEW Psychic Dancehall Wednesday 11 January The Shacklewell Arms (twitter) E8 sexbeatlondon.com FREE ENTRY    If someone was to ask me, right now, "Scott, what live events are you looking forward to in the next 30 days?" I'd probably go with the live debut of Psychic Dancehall in London, UK as my easy number 1.  It isn't that I'm not looking forward to great events

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(SPINNER AOL BEST ALBUMS OF 2011 LIST)

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(PITCHFORK HONORABLE MENTIONS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2011)

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Book Review Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad with a general introduction by Albert J. Guerard p. 1899 This Edition:  The Laurel Conrad (DELL 5032) p. 1971   The end of the year brings so many lists, and Lord Jim has made its share.   It's been touted by Modern Library and Le Monde for being in the "TOP 100" novels of the century.  Reading Lord Jim for the first time, I was struck by how pulpy the

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(WIKIPEDIA)

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 I don't even want to say the kind of mania going on over at Art Fag Recordings over the new Bleached Purple Vinyl.  PICTURED: BLEACHED PURPLE VINYL   That's something like a phenomenon.  You snooze on this for the rest of the week, you lose, my friend.  You lose. I know for a fact that more then 400 of the 500 press- 400+ are "spoken for" and if it wasn't for Mario Orduno's

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Book Review Two Earths; Two Heavens: An Essay Contrasting the Aztecs and the Incasby Burr Cartwright Brundage p. 1975University of New Mexico Press    It was my trip to Peru that got me started on books about this subject.  Lame fantasies about Mayan apocalypse aside, Mesoamerican studies is probably what you would call "hot" in the field of archaeology and anthropology and colder as you move

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     I am seriously considering a trip to Iowa City, IA for the Mission Creek Festival between March 27th and April 1st 2012.  First of all, it's someplace else to check out.  Second of all, the initial line-up already has me stoked:  Magnetic Fields, David Cross, Sharon Van Etten, Dirty Beaches & War On Drugs, with many, many, many more names to come.  You can buy an all access pass (115 USD)

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THEE OH SEES: CARRION CRAWLER/THE DREAM (IN THE RED 2011)(PITCHFORK REVIEW)(IN THE RED RECORDS MAIL ORDER)

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      The Revolver/Midheaven Warehouse in San Francisco is pretty much the coolest place in the world, from my perspective.  Just imagine the coolest record store in the world, but it's not a record store- rather a place where records come from.   The ability of Revolver/Midheaven to not only persist but prosper on a modest scale is a testament to the good that capitalism can create.  Reviolver

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This article = another example of why Alex Dirty Beaches is such an interesting fellow, here discussing influential films. DIRTY BEACHES DETAILS MEN'S MAGAZINE ARTICLE. (DETAILS MAGAZINE.)

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(DIRTY BEACHES BLOG) DIRTY BEACHES IN PALM SPRINGS. DIRTY BEACHES AT SALVATION MOUNTAIN, SALTON SEA CA.

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NITE JEWEL GOT A HIT.  (PITCHFORK)

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(SPIN MAGAZINE)

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  Is there any question that Interscope Records is actually providing journalists/bloggers with verbiage that reference the authenticity debate surrounding Lana Del Rey.  My personal position is, "No she's not authentic, but it doesn't matter;"  however there seem to be as many opinions as there are potential positions: 1.  "Yes authentic, Yes it matters, I hate her for it."  (less popular.)(10%

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     The first press is already selling on ebay for 50 usd. FACT.  The repress is on lavender vinyl, and it kills.  Buy it... BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. (ART FAG RECORDINGS)

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2011-2012 Dum Dum Girls Australia/New Zealand Tour Dates 29/11 Peats Ridge, Sydney (Australia)30/12 Pyramid Rock Fest, Melbourne (Australia)31/12 No Years Festival, Brisbane (Australia) 02/01/12  Oxford Art Factory, Sydney (Australia)03/01/12  Corner Hotel, Melbourne (Australia)06/01/12 Kings Arms Tavern, Auckland (New Zealand)   Jesus H. Australia- what do you have to do to sell records over

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BOOK REVIEW Cultures Merging: A Historical and Economic Critique of Culture by Eric L. Jones p. 2006 Princeton University Press The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, Joel Mokyr, Series Editor   I almost certainly read this book because it references Tyler Cowen's In Praise of Commercial Culture, with the same level of respect & admiration that I feel for the same work.  I ordered

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  Dirty Beaches 2012 European tour dates are continuing to trickle out via Last.fm as individual promoters post them.  So far they've got the Paris, Gronigen (Netherlands), Hamburg & Oslo dates posted between end of February.  Fun fact: While Dirty Beaches is playing Hamburg, I will be in Cambodia. (LASTFM DIRTY BEACHES)  Revolver Oslo Norway rock venue. (VIATRIBE VENUE LISTING)

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WHAT AN ALBUM REVIEW!!! FIRST RATE!!!(PITCHFORK)

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  I just watched PURURAMBO- a documentary film about the alleged last cannibals tribe in New Guinea.  Now, you know that even if they are cannibals, they have good taste, because they ALLEGEDLY ate Michael Rockefeller while he was antiquing in the area in the mid-1960s.  To me the most amazing thing about these cats is not that they may or may not eat human flesh: WHO DOESN'T??? But that they

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BOOK REVIEW World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks p.  2006   I think you could make an argument that Max Brooks and his Zombie Survival Guide deserve credit for single-handedly kick-started the surge in Zombie related literature and popular culture.  The Zombie Survival Guide was published in 2003, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, was published by the same

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BOOK REVIEW Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America by David Hackett Fischer p.  2008 Simon & Schuster   I don't know if there are more then a handful of history professors who can swagger into the office of a major US publishing company and say, "Seven hundred page biography of the french dude who founded "New France" in the 17th Century... with about 20 color prints... GO!"

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SUPERCUT EVERY WU TANG CLAN MENTIONS WU TANG CLAN IN ALL OF THEIR FIVE ALBUMS PLUS EVERYTIME THEY SAY THEIR OWN NAME BY CONOR LASTOWKA. (VILLAGE VOICE)

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