IF someone asked me "what have you been listening to lately"I would say :"FiveFiveFive Dollar Foot Long" on that note, please check my other blogs, I think I'm done with mog.californiageddonthee outernetgood bye
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Posts by George Chen
Hocket
Nick explained this vocal technique to me once when we were talking about Dirty Projectors. It's got a bit of a technical description to go with it, but in the vocal usage it sounds like a call and response where two people alternate the melody line. There's a 14th century medieval tradition that uses this, and I'm reminded of some Meredith Monk recordings...From Wikipedia:"In music, hocket is ...
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things i've been listening to
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Nuzzle cassette '96 demos. Songs that were recorded for a release that never happened and got a second pass with Jeff Pinn. These are a bit punker and looser, but perhaps truer to the live form, thanks to Andy Radin for digitzing and sending my waythe new Mick Barr band, Krallice - very concise and pummeling and melodic.Brain Sucking Peanunanners is Mitchell Brown and two pre-teen children mess...
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Words from Wascovich
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Artist:Scarcity of Tanks
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Track:Backyard Confront
got this email from Matt Wascovich today. MY GUITAR, A HANDSHAKE GREETING WITH DEATHby Matthew WascovichI grew up in a working class suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Since age 4, I had beenlistening to The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Miles Davis, movie soundtracks, and alot of radio broadcasts. It was a fairly regular town of averageness with many ofus motivated by, or made to feel less shitty and ...
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Sic Alps
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Album:A Long Way Round To A Shortcut
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Track:Bells (w/ Tremolo and Distortion)
Pleased to see the out-of-print vinyl tracks from Sic Alps compiled on CD with "A Long Way Round To A Shortcut" out this week on Animal Disguise. Misters Donovan and Hartman have miles of collective indie rock cred to spare in projects like Mesh, Nam, Henry's Dress, Yikes, Coachwhips, Ropers, and Total Shutdown. They were supposed to be on a US tour right now, but Hartman broke his wrist in a b...
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Christian Marclay art show SF tonight
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Sound artist/turntablist (in the broadest sense of the word) is known for video compositions but this is the first art show I have heard of from him.Check out images here, and read Fraenkel Gallery's description. The opening is tonight at 6 pm"Stereo." Photographs by Christian Marclay. Runs through June 28. 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat. 49 Geary St. (415) 981-2661."Since ...
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Hanson Records store
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Aaron Dilloway has opened the midwest noise nerds' equivalent of an opium den just half an hour out of Cleveland. Providing the level of boutique noise that shops like Hospital in NY, Electric Heavyland(defunct) in Seattle, and Misanthropic Agenda in Oakland have set the precedent for, Dilloway (formerly of Wolf Eyes) has a long career working in record stores to draw on. From his own words, an...
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HIGHER SXSW party - "Y'ALL CAN'T WIN"
We're throwing a SXSW party for all our artists and friends who are going to be travelling to Austin this year! Saturday, March 15th 12:30-5:30PM at West's Art Music and Wine - 408 Josephine St.NRSZ 12:30 (SF, ex Hello Noisy)SSSSPECTRES 1:00 (NY, New York Night Train)KIT 1:40 (Oakland, Upset the Rhythm)THE MAE SHI 2:10 (LA, Team Shi)SCARY MANSION 2:50 (Brooklyn, Zum)GROUPER & INCA ORE 3...
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Deerhoof with Ed Rodriguez
Ed Rodriguez' (Flying Luttenbachers, Gorge Trio, Colossamite, XBXRX) first show with Deerhoof in Petaluma! Filmed by Vicente Coulier.
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