Category: Series of posts
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The Core Is Getting Soft.17: Iris
While this site is not organized for commercial purposes, I did want to let those musically productive readers know that Izotope’s fantastic virtual sample based synthesizer Iris 2 is on sale for just $29. You can also get it combined with Izotope’s Trash 2 distortion plug in for $49. I used the Iris 2 extensively […]
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Top 40 Over 40.25: Wise Intelligent
Even rarer than artists making great records after 40 is those who are able to do so in quick succession. Back when I was high school, Hüsker Dü released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig only 8 months apart. It’s hard to imagine young bands doing that in today’s post-internet crash music economy, let […]
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Top 40 Over 40.24: Zero Set
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 called Zero Set. That would have been a better outcome for all concerned. Conny Plank (above) would have been 42 when this came out, which qualifies […]
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Top 40 Over 40.23: KRS-One Live at Cat’s Cradle
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 their stage presence, and / or seem bitter or disillusioned or worn down by the passage of time, or lose the critical edge of their […]
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Top 40 Over 40.22: Callaci & Sons reach The End of Night
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. Ornette recorded the album with his son Denardo Coleman, then only 10 years old, on drums. Not considered a part of the great Ornette albums […]
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Call Durham DA for Nestor Avila
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, as well as other teenagers detained by ICE. Tonight I received the following alert from Alerta Migratoria, who work here in Durham on fighting detention […]
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Stream track from upcoming album
Brooklyn Vegan premiered the track Stock Up All the Prisons from our forthcoming album yesterday. You can check it out here. You can also go to my until recently private Soundcloud page and check it out there. I’m working on a video for this track with RUMUR, who did the videos for Spare Parts last […]
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Top 40 Over 40.22: Mahmoud Ahmed
Universities can be weird places to see shows, musical or otherwise. The setting can make it feel like whatever creative process put forward is subject for intellectual consideration from a distance, rather than communal participation. What’s on offer might be critiqued and dismissed, or fetishized as a deracinated trophy from a frequently subaltern culture that […]
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The Core is Getting Soft.17: Noah’s ARC
I haven’t been geeking out on software as much as I was when I started this series of posts on software ironically titled after a lyric from a Minor Threat song, a band that sure as hell never used any damn software. I’ve been refraining from buying new plug-ins* in favor of making sure the […]
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