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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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Inka Cola / Holiday Shows
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 of neo-colonialism, the Coca-Cola corporation actually bought out Inka Cola of Peru. The line in the song goes, “Mao’s Little Red Book slandered you…
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Our record came out today
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 are already out with more to come from Magnet, Bandcamp, and others. Magnet premiered Contamination In the Grass last week, while The Big Takeover premiered…
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Bandcamp store now open
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 on Cassette Store Day. For the first time, I will be selling music through Bandcamp. I’ve uploaded the new double album as the homepage, (download,…
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New Album available for Pre-Sale; Back from Europe for late July / early August USA shows
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 tour with some pony-riding and other vacation hijinks mixed in between the shows. Thanks to the many folks who helped make it happen. Our new…
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Posters for European Tour; Pre-sale on deck @ Pledge Music
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 be up within the next week or so via Pledge Music. You can purchase the new album and other extras there. If you wanted to…
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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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Affiche > Quiche
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 tension evoked by the proximity of the wood-cut phallus to a node of barbed wire. The title, Au-delà du spectacle, has to do with the…
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Is the Maple Leaf a Fig Leaf?
Canada often has a reputation as a kinder, gentler kind of first-world nation, due to socialized medicine, a relatively open immigration policy, 19th century haven for travelers on the Underground Railroad, etc. Oh yeah, and also the contrast of being next door neighbors to the world’s lone remaining superpower, y’know, the one who spends 600…
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Summer Shows
Our summer itinerary has now been pretty much finalized. You can find it on the Shows and Events page of this site as well, but you’ll see it below this message as well. There will be two different lineups. The midwest/south shows will be with Justin and Rob as pictured above. The European shows and…
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