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Book Review FRANCE BURNEY: THE LIFE IN THE WORKS Margaret Anne Doody p. 1988   I like writing about 18th century literature because it's a legitimate cultural subject, and it's pretty much impossible to offend anyone with your opinion.  Five years of blogging about music and literature have taught me that the easiest thing to do with a blog is offend someone with your opinion.  The stand out

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EVENT PREVIEW DUM DUM GIRLS WIDOWSPEAK PUNKS ON MARS @ MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG BROOKLYN NEW YORK TONIGHT, FEBRUARY SEVENTH 2012.   Here is a post Brooklyn Vegan did about the secret show last night that all these bands did with the Babies at Cake Shop.  If you happen to attend this event, get there in time to see opening band PUNKS ON MARS.  PUNKS ON MARS IS ON A ROCKET TO THE STRATOSPHERE.

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PICTURE OF BRONSON VENUE IN RAVENNA ITALY ADDRESS: Via Cella, 50, 48121 Ravenna, Italy website TONIGHT, FEBRUARY 7th 2012 DIRTY BEACHES TARLABASI RELEASE PARTY ADMISSION SEVEN EURO OR TEN EURO FOR ADMISSION + 7". VIDEO OF ALEX DIRTY BEACHES TARLABASI RECORDING SESSION: HERES ANOTHER AMAZING DIRTY BEACHES VIDEO SHOT IN EUROPE:

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This is a cool Italian language music site/blog whatever that happens to have a Dirty Beaches interview on the home page this week. (INDIE FOR BUNNIES)

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EVENT PREVIEW ONE OF A MILLION MUSIK FESTIVAL IN BADEN SWITZERLAND FEBRUARY 11, 2012 @ NORDPORTAL IN BADEN SWITZERLAND THE LEGENDARY LIGHTNESS  (SWISS BAND) THE BLACK ATLANTIC  (500k last.fm plays) DIRTY BEACHES (615k) GROUPLOVE (1.3 million) THE WHIP (2 million)   It's funny, I put the bands in the order they appear in the flyer, and it looks like the convention in Switzerland is to put the

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Irony as a universal quality of good literature: Twentieth-century critics, notably T. S. Eliot and the “New Critics” I. A. Richards, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren, argued that (as Abrams puts it) “the greatest poems are invulnerable to external irony because they already incorporate the poet’s own ‘ironic’ awareness of opposite and complementary attitudes.”  Irony in this broadest sense

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M.H. ABRAMS ORIENTATION OF CRITICAL THEORIES ABOUT ART SCHEME ABRAMS ORIENTATION OF CRITICAL THEORIES GOOGLE SEARCH WHAT SOME BLOGGER WROTE ABOUT ABRAMS ORIENTATION OF CRITICAL THEORIES *

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  Three things I find appealing about 17th/18th/19th century Romantic poetry: 1. None of it subject to copyright, i.e. free for all. 2. Hasn't had a critical renaissance in half a century (1960s was the last one) 3.  CLASSIC HITS.   Here is his complete poetic works- 700 plus pages, freely available on Google Books:      My take is that Wordsworth is a endless potential source of Artistic

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BOOK REVIEW The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition by M.H. Abrams p. 1953 Oxford University Press   I'd wager that most of my artistic type friends would gladly cop to being called "Romantics."  After all, you kind of have to be Romantic to get involved seriously with Art.   But what does it mean to be a "Romantic?"  Romanticism, after all, is nothing if not slippery

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         I saw that a new Leonard Cohen record came out this week, and that there is an attempt by Columbia "more relevant" to youngsters by having bands like CULTS cover Cohen songs, which seems a-ok to me.  I thought I'd share the story of how Leonard Cohen signed to Columbia, from the epic  The Label: The Story of Columbia Records, by Gary Marmorstein (MY REVIEW)(AMAZON PRODUCT PAGE):    In

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  My take on the Swami/Swami Records/Swami Soundsytem Radio Show is that the Swami is all about taking care of the Swami, and who can blame him?  That's what adults do- they don't operate in quasi-communistic bohemian fantasy lands where people care about the "community."  Obviously, Swami Enteprises plays an active and varied role in the local music ecosystem, and the  Rocket From The Crypt/Hot

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EVENT PREVIEW Saturday, February 4th. M THEORY RECORDS IN HILLCREST HEAVY HAWAII IN-STORE APPEARANCE AT 6 P.M. RESCHEDULED FROM LAST WEEK   Did I write about how I was in M Theory last week, and I saw these quasi-hipster type girls shopping for vinyl, and the one of them bought Adele, Florence and the Machine & the new Drake record.  And I say, "That's great- KEEP IT UP."  Presumably it's easy

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EVENT PREVIEW THE SOFT MOON COLD SHOWERS DIVERS THE NOTORIOUS ART FAG RECORDINGS DISC JOCKEYS WILL PLAY IN BETWEEN BANDS 8 USD Saturday February, 4th, 2012 The Casbah, San Diego,CA (FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE) (COLD SHOWERS LAST FM PROFILE) -5k plays/1k listeners (THE SOFT MOON LAS FM PROFILE) - 500k plays/ 30k listeners   My rule now is I don't write about a show unless I would go to that show.  

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NEW BAND PINS MANCHESTER UK. (A SHOW REVIEW SOME GUY WROTE LAST MONTH) PLEASE NOTE THIS BAND IS NOT PENS FROM LONDON

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DIRTY BEACHES TARLABASI 7" BRONSON ITALY VINYL one from local Italian promoter Bronson in Ravenna. DIRTY BEACHES DUNE WALKER 7" GERMANY SLOW BOY and the other one is from Slow Boy label in Cologne. Good luck getting copies of either: LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND THEM FOR SALE.

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MH ABRAMS THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP CLASSIFICATION SCHEME. UNIVERSE {} WORK ----  AUDIENCE {} ARTIST

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MUSEUM REVIEW Twenty Mule Team Museum 26922 Twenty Mule Team RoadBoron, CA.  93516(WEB SITE) Saxon Aerospace Museum 26922 Twenty Mule Team Road Boron, CA.  93516 (YELP PROFILE)   I am stone cold sucker for a local museum.  These two bad-bwoys are on the road between Bakersfield and Barstow, in a little town called Boron, so called because of it's proximity to the world's largest(?) Borax

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  Primavera Sound has a pretty full list of bands up on its home page including such luminaries as: The Cure The XX Beirut Girls Japandroids Bleached Lower Dens Veronica Falls Sharon Van Etten Wavves The War on Drugs   Primavera Sound is between May 30th and June 3rd and it's in BARCHELONA.

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BOOK REVIEW The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker by Tobias George Smollett Introduction by Robert Gorham Davis Published by Hold, Rineheart and Winston this edition 1967 originally published 1771   I can honestly say that I've read every major novel of the 18th century, and several of the minor ones.  It's been whatever the opposite of a "wild ride" is- every other great 18th century novel is 500

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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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