Tag: Simon Joyner

• Driftin’ back to Buckley

  Simon Joyner once said to me I wish I could sing like Tim Buckley, but I do what I can with what I have.  I said I felt the same way.  This morning I was looking for something irrelevant to listen to while nearing completion of Gnawing on The Bone, an instrumental project I’ve been […]

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  May 25, 2019

  Music, New Releases, Record Reviews

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, Federico Garcia Lorca, Folk Implosion, Gnawing on the Bone, Live at the Troubadour, Lorca, Procrastination, Simon Joyner, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, Tim Buckley

• 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

• NC Shows and Thank You Midwest

    We had a lot of fun playing in Columbus Ohio, Chicago Illinois, and Bloomington Indiana last week.  Thanks to The Owl, The Big Room Bar, and Landlocked Music for hosting us.   If you are local to or visiting NC, there are some intermittent local shows coming up:  first a solo acoustic show at […]

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  April 7, 2016

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Education, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, Politics, Shows and Events, Site News, Uncategorized

  Allen Callaci, Arcana Bar Durham, Big Room Bar, E, John Davis and The Cicadas, Landlocked Music, Local 506 Chapel Hill, Marshawn McCarrell, Shows and Events, Simon Joyner, The Pinhook

• 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

• See Refrigerator Live online on March 1st at 6:40 pm!!!

  This is such a beautiful picture it makes me a bit misty eyed…  Refrigerator will be playing an event at the library where their lead singer Allen Callaci works in Rancho Cucamonga CA on the 1st of March at approximately 6:40 pm.  This a rare chance to see these wonderful musicians live, even if it’s […]

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  February 18, 2014

  Music

  Allen Callaci, Health, Live music, Ralph Remmert, Rancho Cucamonga Library, Refrigerator, Simon Joyner, Transplant surgery

• 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

• Outsourcing…it can be a good thing.2!

  As Spare Parts rambles towards completion, cello, violin and backing vocals have been added out in Omaha by Megan Siebe, Mike Williams, Sara Gleason, Benjamin Brodin, Laura Burhenn and Simon Joyner.  Vocals were done at ARC studios on the 17th, and a few final percussion, lap steel, and backing vocal tracks will be done chez […]

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  February 20, 2013

  Music, Series of posts, Site News, Spare Parts, Work In Progress

  ARC Studios, Ben Brodan, Laura Menhann, Megan Siebe, Music, Omaha, Sara Gleason, Simon Joyner, Spare Parts, Upcoming Projects