Wednesday, December 28, 2011

JA in the AM 2011 Top 10

1. Richard Youngs "Amplifying Host" alternating w/ Tor Lundval Boxset
2. Blues Control & Laraaji alternating w/ Julianna Barwick & Ikue Mori
3. Pulse Emitter "Ramped" alternating w/ Dolphins Into the Future "Ke Ala Ke Kua"
4. Meg Baird "Seasons On Earth" alternating w/ PJ Harvey "Let England Shake"
5. La Big Vic "Actually" alternating w/ CS Yeh "In the Blink Of An Eye" 7 inch
6. Cut Hands "S/T" alternating w/ Ami Dang "Hukam"
7. Telebossa "S/T" alternating w/ Helado Negro "Canta Lechuza"
8. Colin Stetson "New History Warfare Vol. 2" alternating w/ Joe Mcphee & Chris Corsano "Under a Double Moon"
9. Dan Melchior "Assemblage Blues" alternating w/ Slug Guts "Howlin' Gang"
10. Daniel Knox "Evryman For Himself" alternating w/ Zachary Cale "Noise of Welcome"

Monday, April 11, 2011

Michael Chapman US Tour Dates

With 70 years of dues certified and paid up, this months artist in residence is Michael Chapman. Michael will celebrate this distinction with a self- funded flight to NYC to promote not one, not two, but three recent releases on Light In The Attic (reissue of 1970's Fully Qualified Survivor), Tompkins Square (Instrumental takes on some of his 'more known' songs from the last 40 or so years), and Ecstatic Peace (his feedback lp).

The dates are below....

4/19 NY, NY - East Village Radio/Academy Recs

4/22 Brooklyn - Littlefield w/ Steve Gunn/Hans Chew/Bob Banister

4/23 Fairfax, VA - Avant Fairfax Festival: Old Town Hall

4/24 Philadelphia - The Rotunda w/ Meg Baird

4/26 New Brunswick, NJ -Tumulty's

4/27 Charlottesville, VA - Dust Warehouse w/ Kohoutek

4/28 Carrboro, NC - All Day Records instore

4/29 Floyd, VA - Dogtown Roadhouse w/ the Black Twig Pickers

4/30 Richmond, VA - Sprout

5/1 Baltimore - TBC

5/2 Brooklyn, NY - Zebulon w/ Chris Forsyth & Tom Carter

Monday, July 23, 2007

John Lennon drunk again

One of the scuzziest records to come out of the early nineties was the 'drunk john lennon' 45 on shitsville. The DJL project yielded just this one single, a truly inspired document of directionless twentysomethings before the internet or space travel. Check out a boredom few have ever dared commit to vinyl.

www.myspace.com/drunkjohnlennon

Monday, March 5, 2007

Monday, February 5, 2007

Eric Von Schmidt 1931-2007


BOB DYLAN:
Of course we had heard about Eric Von Schmidt for many years. The name itself had become a password. Eventually, after standing in line to meet him, there it was -- his doorstep, a rainy day, and he greeted his visitors, inviting them in. He was told how much they liked Grizzly Bear and he then invited the whole bunch to the club, where he was about to perform the thing live. "C'mon down to the club" he said -- "I'm about to perform it live."

We accepted the invitation. And that is what his record is. An invitation. An invitation to the glad, mad, sad, biting, exciting, frightening, crabby, happy, enlightening, hugging, chugging world of Eric Von Schmidt. For here is a man who can sing the bird off the wire and the rubber off the tire. He can separate the men from the boys and the note from the noises. The bridle from the saddle and the cow from the cattle. He can play the tune of the moon. The why of the sky and the commotion from the ocean. Yes he can.

-Sticker for Eric Von Schmidt's 1972 Poppy album "2nd Right 3rd Row"