Tag: Dennis Callaci

• 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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  February 4, 2018

  Film, Shrimper Records, Top 40 Over 40

  Dennis Callaci, Film Noir, Ornette Coleman, Shrimper Records, The Empty Foxhole, The End of Night

• New Cassette Released Today!

  If you’re into hypnosis, you might like a minimal instrumental piece I just released on cassette and digital download from Unread Records this very day.  It’s a 45 minute long instrumental version of a song from my forthcoming record called We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize.  The cover of the cassette features degraded xeroxed pictures […]

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  November 8, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Cassettes, Music, New Releases, Shrimper Records, Site News

  Cassette Releases, Dennis Callaci, Lo-Fi Lives, Shrimper Records, Simon Joyner, Unread Records, We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize

• Top 40 Over 40.15: Bill Callahan – Made For the Stage?

  One of the cliches about aging performers is that they usually have to navigate the decline of their sex appeal by finding other ways to make something happen onstage.  There are some who escape this fate.  Kris Kistofferson was called a sex symbol during an interview with CBS’s Sunday Morning news program well into in […]

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  January 29, 2014

  Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40, Uncategorized

  Bill Callahan, Billy Joe Shavers, Cynthia Dall, Dennis Callaci, domestic violence, Folk Implosion, Frank Tanana, John Darnielle, Kris Kristofferson, Lou Barlow, Mia Doi Todd, misogyny, Music, Nolan Ryan, Simon Joyner, Smog, Top 40 Over 40

• Other John Davises.2: Practice Space Music

  In a parallel lifetime, I moonlight as the lead singer of Korn.  If you haven’t seen me recently, the ‘locks may seem like a bit of a stylistic departure from the shorter look you can see below at left: Chris from Refrigerator wrestled me to the ground until I promised to grow my hair out […]

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  June 30, 2012

  Music, Other John Davises, Wisecracks

  Chris “Hot Nachos”, Dennis Callaci, Folk Implosion, Korn, Music, Other John Davises, Parallel lives, Refrigerator, Wisecracks