1982: I was 12 years old and listening to James Taylor.* Ouch. I could have been listening to an album that came out that year by Moebius, Plank, and Neumeier…
I saw KRS – One live a few months ago, and the musical assumptions of ageism took another body blow for sure. Aging musicians often lose the full power of…
Sometimes musicians I know tip their hand by commenting on the records they love. For years, Dennis Callaci has circled back to recommending Ornette Coleman’s 1966 album The Empty Foxhole.…
One of my favorite lyrics on our new record uses a nugget I got from a passage in Mark Pendergrast’s great history of the Coca-Cola corporation: in perhaps the perfect symbol…
I started writing these songs back in 2010. 7 and 3/4 years later they are out there, it’s pretty cool. Early reviews from Ghettoblaster Magazine, With A Messy Head and Popdust.Com…
Our new record El Pulpo comes out in the US on October 20th, October 14th if you buy the Shrimper Records tape version from a participating brick and mortar store…
Me and the Cicadas are back from Europe, where I was locked out of posting on this website cuz of technical difficulties. Alex, Wendy, Scott and I had a great…
You can download and posters for the first leg of our summer tour here: eurotour poster smaller Eurotour poster large straight up The poster mentions a pre-sale store that will…
Readers of this blog may recall a trip I made with other teachers and activists from Durham to work for the release of Wildin David Guillen Acosta and Yefri Sorto-Hernandez,…
Really looking forward to being part of this festival in southern France hosted by Arbouse Recordings, who will be releasing our new CD in September. I especially like the dramatic…
