Tag: Pledge Music

• 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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  October 21, 2017

  Cassettes, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, New Releases, Shows and Events, Site News

  Arbouse Recordings, Bandcamp, El Pulpo, Ghettoblaster Magazine, Inouï Distribution, Magnet, Midheaven, Pledge Music, Popdust.com, Revolver, Shrimper Records, With A Messy Head

• 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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  September 24, 2017

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Cassettes, Current Events, History, Migration, New Releases, Politics, Shrimper Records

  10K Strong, Bandcamp, Cassette Store Day 2017, Durham For All, El Pulpo, Mike Ladd, Nelson Denis, Notes On The Return To The Island, Omaha, Pledge Music, Seward, Shows and Events, Shrimper Records, Simon Joyner, War Against All Puerto Ricans

• 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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  July 21, 2017

  Book Reviews, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, New Releases, Shows and Events

  Derek Bailey, Earl Lovelace, El Pulpo, Evil English, Glasgow, Is Just a Movie, Mike Ladd, Peter Linebaugh, Pledge Music, Quelque Part Records, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Seward, Simon Joyner, The London Hanged, Thistle Books, Tome Records, Voltaire and Rousseau Books

• 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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  June 15, 2017

  John Davis and The Cicadas, Shows and Events, Visual art

  Colombia, El Pulpo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Pledge Music, Potosi, Stephen Ferry