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• New Subscription Available On Bandcamp

  

  I’ve started a subscription option on Bandcamp. Here’s the description you’ll find there – consider joining or telling a friend: https://jdsoundbite.bandcamp.com/subscribe The great improvisational trumpet player Bill Dixon once said in an interview that he was more interested in seeing other musicians rehearse than he was in seeing them perform. The reason? He was more…

  jhd123

  December 6, 2020

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• Solo Show Saturday 10/26 in DC; other news

  I’ll be playing a solo show on a bill at the house venue Rhizome in Washington DC this Saturday, October 26th.  Learn more about it here and come out if you’re nearby! I’m on early evening. Also looking forward to a few other scattered weekend shows after the holiday – 1/11 in Chicago, and 1/18…

  jhd123

  October 24, 2019

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• Top 40 Over 40.26: Homeboy Sandman & Edan’s “The Gut”

  My favorite track to come out over the past year or so is from the album Humble Pi, which is a collaboration between two great artists, Homeboy Sandman and Edan.   There’s a big contrast here between the discographies of these two guys:  Homeboy Sandman’s been putting out records regularly over the last dozen years,…

  jhd123

  August 7, 2019

  Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40, Uncategorized

  13th Floor Elevators, Beastie Boys, Beauty and the Beat, Beck, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Bruce Haak, Edan, First Of A Living Breed, Gut Feminism, Hip Hop, Historia De La Musica Rock, Homeboy Sandman, Humble Pi, imixwhatilike, Jared Ball, Kindness For Weakness, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, Mass Incarceration, Music, Music Machine, Never Use The Internet Again, Odessy and Oracle, Psych Rock, Somatics, Syd Barrett, The Gut, Velvet Underground, War Pigs, Zombies

• Tour Spiel

  Hi All, We’ve updated our April Tour dates with some last minute changes.  Hope to see you at one of the following if you’re east coast-ish.  Notice for NYC show in this from NY Observer. April 8 – Columbus Theater, Providence RI, with Advance Base and Karima Walker April 10 – Atwood’s Tavern, Cambridge MA, with…

  jhd123

  April 7, 2017

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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…

  jhd123

  November 27, 2016

  Top 40 Over 40, Uncategorized

  12 Times Table, Carolina Performing Arts, Duke Performances, Duke University, Ethiopia, Ethiopiques, Liberation News, Mahmoud Ahmed, Mark Anthony Neal, Nasher Museum of Art, Tameka Norris

• Mixing complete! Going to Georgia…with a Heart Like a Starfish.

  Just a quick word to share the news that Scott Solter and I have finished mixing our new record and it is now headed for mastering.  I will of course share details about its release as they become available.  I’d like to thank Scott for all the hard work he put into producing this project…

  jhd123

  July 13, 2016

  John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, New Releases, Shows and Events, Site News, Uncategorized

  529 Atlanta, Allen Callaci, Caledonia Lounge, El Pulpo, Heart Like A Starfish, John Davis and The Cicadas, King Piggly Wiggly, Scott Solter

• NC Shows and Thank You Midwest

    We had a lot of fun playing in Columbus Ohio, Chicago Illinois, and Bloomington Indiana last week.  Thanks to The Owl, The Big Room Bar, and Landlocked Music for hosting us.   If you are local to or visiting NC, there are some intermittent local shows coming up:  first a solo acoustic show at…

  jhd123

  April 7, 2016

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, Politics, Shows and Events, Site News, Uncategorized

  Allen Callaci, Arcana Bar Durham, Big Room Bar, E, John Davis and The Cicadas, Landlocked Music, Local 506 Chapel Hill, Marshawn McCarrell, Shows and Events, Simon Joyner, The Pinhook

• Support Alerta Migratoria NC

  As a follow up to my last post about ICE raids in North Carolina in general, I’d like to post a link to a GoFundMe campaign to support Alerta Migratoria NC.  We at the Durham Association of Educators have been meeting with them to look for advice on how to respond to the recent case…

  jhd123

  February 27, 2016

  Education, Migration, Politics, Uncategorized

  Alerta Migratoria NC, Durham Association of Educators, education, El Centro Hispano, ICE

• Please Call ICE to Stop NC Deportations

  ICE has recently kidnapped 5 high school students in North Carolina for deportation, one of them at Riverside High School here in Durham.  Please consider calling them in Washington to urge them to release these students, who are now being held in a jail in Georgia.  They could be deported at any time.  MoveOn.org also…

  jhd123

  February 14, 2016

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, Mental Health, Migration, Politics, Uncategorized

  Alexander Cockburn, Anabel Hernandez, Anxiety Disorders, Barack Obama, Brian Hoffmann, CAFTA, CARA Pro Bono Project, Deportation, Drug Policy, Durham, Durham Association of Educators, Durham Public Schools, Greg Grandin, Honduras, ICE, Los Angeles Unified School District, Migration, NAFTA, Peter Dale Scott, PTSD, Wilden David Guillen Acosta

• Support GLBTQ Staff & Students in DPS

  I’ll be participating in a roundtable discussion on supporting GLBTQ staff and students in Durham Public Schools at Bull McCabe’s at 427 West Main Street in downtown Durham next Tuesday, February 2nd, from 6 – 7:30 pm.  The event is sponsored by the Education Team of the Durham People’s Alliance, whose board I’ve just started…

  jhd123

  January 27, 2016

  Current Events, Education, Mental Health, Uncategorized

  Anti-Homophobia, Durham Association of Educators, Durham People’s Alliance, LGBTQ Issues, Safe Schools North Carolina