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Top 40 Over 40.36: Carl Craig live at The Fruit in Durham
Preface: I recommend listening to Falling Up by Theo Parrish &b Carl Craig while reading this post. My favorite track from Carl. I love how dry the percussion! This was a set I caught at Slingshot in 2022, an electronic music festival held at a former wholesale fruit warehouse near downtown Durham NC. This repurposed…
New album and new Substack
An album that’s been listed on the “Upcoming Projects” page of this website for almost a decade is now finished and ready for mastering. At the suggestion of friends who have heard it, I have started a Substack where I will be writing about the historical material addressed in the songs on on the record.…
Top 40 Over 40.35: Sylvie Courvoisier & Wada Leo Smith Live at Long Play Festival in Brooklyn
Part of the purpose of this post is to let folks know that I have relocated from Durham NC to Brooklyn NY. While the move was a personal one motivated by the desire to remove the “Long Distance” prefix from a relationship I’ve been in for three and a half years, it comes with some…
Two solo shows in Durham
It’s always nice when friends come through town and ask you to open for them. I’ll be at Perfect Lovers on April 15th, tomorrow, with Roman Angelos and Scivic Rivers Then I’ll be at the Pinhook in Durham on April 30th opening for LAKE and Joyero After that no shows planned as I’ll be working…
Folk Implosion East Coast and Midwest Dates now finalized…
Well, it’s been a while….I don’t think we ever did a tour quite this consistent actually. Come on out! There are ticket links to all the dates that still have tickets in the shows and events page of this website – except St Louis, which I can’t find a link for as yet. The room…
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!
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…
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…
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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