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Love in the Time of Capital vinyl now available through Bandcamp
If you would like to support your local brick and mortar record store great! You will be able to get this there starting in August but for now advance copies are available only on my Bandcamp page and at live shows. Green Red and White Allright!
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Data.1
Today I’m starting a new series of short posts on data I pull from things I’m reading, listening to, or watching online about history and politics. Right now I’m listening to the podcast Millenials Are Killing Capitalism where they interview Michael Hardt, who teaches at Duke here in Durham. Hardt has a new book out…
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West Coast Shows Next Weekend
I’m looking forward to visiting California next weekend to play a few shows backed my pals Eli and Andrew from the band LAKE. Nic Hessler opens the LA show on Saturday, January 13th at Permanent Records Roadhouse. Suver opens the Oakland show on Sunday, January 14th at Thee Stork Club in Oakland. We will be playing most of…
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New Album Out in Full
My new album Love in the Time of Capital is now out in its entirety on the streaming services and on Bandcamp. You can pre-order the vinyl version on Bandcamp here: it should reach you in January. Upcoming shows: November 7th at the Cave in Chapel Hill NC November 9th at Buvez in Athens GA…
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New Single “Change” out online today
The song “Change” from my new album “Love in the Time of Capital” was released on streaming services today. The album became available for pre-order on Bandcamp today as well. You can use the following link to get to the track on Bandcamp and two streaming platforms you might subscribe to: https://lnkfi.re/jdsoundbite I thought of…
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Love in the Time of Capital: New Album release date and “Weekend Warrior” tour
Hey Folks, On October 11th, the first single from my new album, Love in the Time of Capital, will come out on streaming services, and the album will become available for pre-order on Bandcamp. The album release date will be Friday, October 27th. There is going to be a vinyl edition on green and bone…
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What’s Left Out.2: Rania Khalek goes where the New York Times won’t
Korea has been on my mind recently as I was working on a song based on The Blowback Trilogy by Chalmers Johnson, who I have written about before on this blog. As I reread the trilogy looking for bits to use, I decided to try and use a teachable moment Johnson wrote about. He recounted…
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Listening to.2: While Whirling by Frantz Loriot
The viola is a beautiful instrument but not often a surprising one. Not so here. I know very little about this record, but I do know that it explores the viola in ways that are unusual but aesthetically successful and fully developed. It reminds me of textures from electronic music, which it may be influenced…
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The Core Is Getting Soft.19: Good Kit
It’s been a few years since I’ve done a post in this series about music production software. I’ve been more interested in learning to use a few pieces of recording hardware I’ve acquired from Overstayer in LA and studying Persian classical music of late. But – there are still some software tools that catch my…