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Old, but new: DFI on Vi-nil
A blast from the past: Deluxx Folk Implosion have released a session of 14 tunes recorded back in the day in Brighton or Allston MA, take your pick. Previously represented by a single track on the Kids soundtrack and a 7″ ep on Domino, DFI now lays all its nonsense punk cards on the table […]
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Help Bring Wildin Back to Riverside High
If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you know that I’ve been involved with other NC, GA, and DC activists to push back against ICE raids that swept up undocumented teenagers who arrived in the US as unaccompanied minors after 2014. One of these students, Wildin David Guillen Acosta, was on his way to […]
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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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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 […]
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Top 40 over 40.21: Gary Numan live at Moogfest
The first New Wave / Post Punk song I ever fell in love with was Cars by Gary Numan, which came out when I was in 5th grade. I used to listen to Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown every week with a friend and we’d write the sequence down in a notebook. Then I would […]
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Outdone
I’ve produced some things in music I’m quite proud of. But nothing that can touch this awesome quilt my mom just made for a mouse. Easily the best thing my family has ever created! Here’s a little clip of Masoch from our set at Pinhook in Durham last Saturday night…thanks to Mom for the creative […]
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Musical Metal
One of the pleasures of having moved to Durham is the spirit of musical camaraderie I’ve enjoyed here. One current partner in sound is Justin Blatt, who plays viola and violin with the Cicadas. Today he sent me a recording of him playing one of the many metal sculptures he makes in his shop. If […]
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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 […]