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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…
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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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Call In to Protect Visitation Rights at Durham County Jail on Monday, February 27th.
The Inside-Outside Alliance in Durham is a local organization that “is primarily focused on supporting prisoners in the Durham County jail and on fighting police terrorism throughout the city.” This post is to encourage readers to join in their campaign to prevent the revocation of in-person visitation rights from families with members locked up in what…
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Taxman Tour Dates April 2017
(photo by Lindsey Metvier) April 15th…brings to mind visions of scrambling to file tax returns for many, and visions of dodging them in the Cayman Islands for the few. For the Cicadas, it will, this year, bring to mind scrambling down various eastern interstates. We are announcing 7 shows running from April 8th to April…
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serpentwithfeet 4Ethers
I’ve seen a lot of people on social media giving props to Carrie Fisher for speaking out about mental illness, which wasn’t as common when she started doing it as it is now. I remember Carrie equally for being sarcastic and mean in a way that few women celebrities are allowed to present themselves to…
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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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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…