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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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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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