Song of the Week

Amidst dire economic news, it's all about something uplifting for this week's jam...

Underdog - Sly & The Family Stone

There is nobody who can drop the funk like Sly and the Fam. He is one of the most slept on frontmen of all time. His range is crazy and he constantly pushes the limits.

Black Lips Release "Two Million Thousand"

Atlanta psychedelic punk rockers The Black Lips dropped their sixth album Two Million Thousand yesterday. If you're familiar with their Byrds-meets-Blitz stylings than this is just a gentle reminder to go buy the new album, because it's a steady continuation of everything you already love about these guys.

If you don't know about these guys, then make a note and go check them out.

Their last album, Good, Bad, Not Ugly (Vice Records), is a modern classic, and I don't throw that term around lightly. It's walks the line between detail-oriented neo-garage-psych ("I Saw a Ghost") and humorous irreverance ("How Do You Tell a Child That Someone Has Died").

Here's a pretty choice cut off the new album:

Starting Over - Black Lips

If you like it, buy it. Spend $10 to support good artists.

The Listening Room - Feb. 27th Featuring RJ Temple and Michael Maddox

If you haven't heard about this series yet, take note...The friendly folks at New Moon of Savannah have put together a pretty interesting series of shows that happens on the last friday of every month where they put together a bill of musicians who wouldn't normally play together.

The first show was local alt-rocker Dare Dukes headlining for acoustic guitar wielding, wine-expert Stan Ray. I didn't get to catch the show, but I know Dare is amazing and that they got a good turnout.

This time around, The Listening Room will feature farmer/guitar picker Michael Maddox alongside the electronic-funk/jazz fusion of RJ Temple, who's the embodiment of eclectic. Besides being an accomplished musician in several genres, he's also the Music Director for local church Overcoming By Faith, and he has a music-heavy, puppet-centric kids' show similar to the Muppets called RJ and The UpBeats. He's starting to promote a couple of new albums, including a mixtape called TrashTracks Vol. 1 and an album that will be released later this fall called Music Machine

This show definitely seems like it's heading more toward the eclectic artist blend that is the event's mission...while Dare and Stan certainly represent divergent genres, their fan bases probably aren't too different. Not so for Maddox, who is a regular performer at Earth Day and GreenFest, and Temple, who reps everything from Gospel to jazz and electronic dance music.

These shows take place at the S.P.A.C.E. Gallery on W. Henry St., in the cultural affairs building, which is a nice spot and sorely underutilized for things like this.

Go support some local music.

For info on tickets, etc, visit New Moon's website.

Hip Hop Salutes the Harlem Renaissance - March 7th

It's time yet again for AWOL's Annual Hip Hop History Play...This is the 4th year they've done the play, which is always a really great show, and having already done shows about the birth of hip hop in NYC, the ties between hip hop and the African oral tradition, and the similarities between the hip hop generation and the civil rights generation...this year's show is going to look at hip hop and the Harlem Renaissance.

If you've never seen one of the previous years, then you need to mark your calendar and go down to this show at the Trustees Theater on March 7th. They have a cast of over 60 local youth who spend 6 months giving up 2-3 nights/week and a bunch of weekends to be a part of this show. I've seen 2 of the last 3 shows and every year I'm astounded by the level of work and devotion that goes into this production. I'm not exactly an objective critic, since I've been part of AWOL's sound design program for a couple years, but I've never seen another show that so effectively integrated history lessons with popular music and amazing choreography...

Here's the commercial (via AWOL's YouTube page):



Check out more info on AWOL.

Gringo Star @ The Jinx Feb. 28th

The guys from Gringo Star have been generating a lot of hi-profile buzz since their debut dropped last fall.

They'll be rocking the Jinx Feb. 28th before wandering west to SXSW.

Here's a video for their single, which rocks with about the same veracity that The White Stripes brought circa White Blood Cells...


Gringo Star "All Y'all" from analogmonkey.tv on Vimeo.

Don't miss this show...

Check out their Myspace page to hear more tracks...

Kuroma and MK2 @ the River Club 2/24/09

There's an awesome free show at the River Club on Tuesday 2/24 sponsored by SCAD Radio - Kuroma and MK2. Doors open at 7PM, Music starts at 8PM.

[Via SCAD Radio] SCAD Radio presents Kuroma with opening act MK2, Tuesday, Feb. 24 at River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public.

Kuroma is a project of Hank Sullivant, formerly of the bands the Whigs and MGMT. While a member of the Whigs, Sullivant recorded a number of “hazed-out, psychedelic-influenced” demos, including a number of tracks that would ultimately find their way onto the Kuroma release “Paris.” After leaving MGMT in March 2008 he resumed focus on Kuroma, now officially comprising drummer Ben DuPriest and bassist Nick Robbins.

MK2 is Brady Keehn, a producer from Savannah, who merges genres of hip-hop and breakbeat into an innovative Dubstep sound. MK2 has signed tracks with several labels across the United States including Lo Dubs Records, Stupid Fly Records, Shift Recordings, Dirty Circuit Records, W.E. Recordings and Betamorph Records.

It's free. Get some culture...

Harlan Ellison can rant - Part 2

Although this opens up a giant can of worms in regard to creative piracy, napster and intellectual property, the free movement of information over the internet is also what's damaging the journalism industry so much right now. Yes, many newspapers had grown bloated newsroom staffs that were probably due for some cuts, but the massive layoffs that have been going on for the past few months, are also about how the product created by these newspapers is being distributed. There is massive overhead involved in sending reporters to cover everything from town hall meetings to wars in the Middle East, which is no great revelation. However, while so many blogger-cum-citizen-journalists are touting themselves as the future, many are reliant on links back to work of these reporters for their information. So should they pay royalties to the paper to link to content, the same way other media pays to license music? It would be nice, but is probably unrealistic.

There are those who will argue that the traffic driven to these sites is valuable to the papers because it allows them to justify online advertising...that's sort of true, except that the rates for online ads isn't a fraction of what print ads generate revenue wise, so we're back to square one...If the papers/magazines/etc start charging for online content they've given away for free, then everyone will get into a big uproar about the buying the cow when the milk used to be free, but if these publications can't figure out a way to continue providing adequate professional journalism without earnings reports that look like one of The Big Three, then how will we know what is going on at everything from City Council meetings to wars in the Middle East?

I don't want to demean bloggers as journalists here...there are some truly talented writers moving to online formats, especially for political coverage and entertainment, however, I don't think there's a blog yet with the budget to send qualified journalists to cover international issues. Plus, while numerous blogs have sprouted to cover things that are fun to talk about (culture, politics, etc), what blogger is going to step up and say 'yeah, I'll go cover the PTA meetings, the small town borough council meetings and all the other mundane events handled by a rookie general assignment reporter.' These aren't the places filled with issues that people necessarily want to discuss, but at the same time, it's important that those events remain covered because they are important to people on a local level.

The scary thing is that this issue is going to get very real for people pretty quickly, and some cities could be without a newspaper by 2010.

Harlan Ellison can rant - Part 1

Harlan Ellison is sci-fi/fantasy writer who penned scripts for everything from the original Star Trek to Babylon 5. I wasn't familiar with him until I saw this...



Wow. Although he's talking about this in the context of writers, his message applies to artists/creators of all kinds. Creative services are incredibly undervalued in the world of business and hungry amateurs on the bottom rung of the ladder of success are always willing to undercut price (and quality) if they smell an opportunity to put a notch in their resume.

I'll admit I've done some work for free over the years, especially early on, but there is a limit to where that makes good sense, and when those opportunities are hurting the trade as a whole. (I was writing album reviews of undiscovered bands for a regional music website, hardly an area where more experienced writers would tread, and the bands were glad to have some press.) But a few weeks ago, while talking with a book publisher in Florida about doing editing and re-writes on two books they were about to release, the price they quoted me for reworking 40,000+ words was so ridiculous that I had to immediately pass. They barely shrugged, confident that they could find someone to do the work—but unphased by the fact that their rates were what had gotten them bad writing to begin with...which is why they now needed someone to clean up the mess.

The Art of "Shredding"

One of the beautiful things about the internet is the opportunity for people with talent and free time to express themselves to a larger audience. This was one of my all-time favorite examples, a re-edit of a trailer for The Shining as a romantic comedy, complete with Peter Gabriel song:



Then, I got found this video thanks to a tweet from @qtiptheabstract, and it is apparently part of a series of videos where bands "shred," the live video equivalent of being "sweded" by a middle school jazz band blasted on ether. In light of Joaquin Phoenix's recent appearance on Letterman, I kind of thought this video of Mars Volta was a joke/meltdown until the wife told me it was most likely fake (yeah, I'm gullible, so what?):



So this guy Allergonoise is adding meticulously crafted soundtracks to these live videos. These aren't some slapped together noises over images that don't quite match up...I've now watched these things several times, and they are spot on. It's testimony to why the internet, as well as increased accessibility to production software is making the world a better place.

Here's Sigur Ros, in one of the best "shred" videos:



And, for comparison, here's the original Sigur Ros video:

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Prep New Album

[Update] - Apparently, the YeahYeahYeahs weren't ready for that song to leak and have removed it from imeem...you'll just have to wait and see what I'm talking about...

The Yeah Yeah Yeah's are getting ready to release their new album "It's Blitz," and rock critics everywhere are salivating.

So far only one track has leaked, "Zero," which sounds like a cross between Garbage and late 90s PJ Harvey.


Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I'm not crazy about it. I liked their last album, even though it was a departure from their past style, and a lot of my more punk-minded friends wrote it off as "too clean sounding." With this taste of the new project, I too miss the days when Karen O. would just scream over some thrashing, distorted guitar. Now, it seems like they're gunning for the tweener crowd. I don't think I could drive around listening to this by myself. Your thoughts?

Georgia Soul - Anna King

Nobody does soul music like the state of Georgia.


Come On Home - Anna King



Anna King was a gospel singer who was discovered by James Brown in the early 60's. He produced this track, as well as the album it came from, "Back to Soul," which was released in 1964 on Smash Records. Brown had just signed with them and landed a hit with "Out of Sight." King was one of his backup singers for a few years and actually replaced Tammy Montgomery (who went on to record some massive hits for Motown as Tammi Terrell - The JBs rolled with so much talent).

Maf's Death of the Arcade

Maf is one of Savannah's truest hip hop heads. He's got crazy swagger on the mic and his crates are so deep. I've tried to put him on to things that I thought no one knew, but he's always a step ahead. He dropped this Death of the Arcade mixtape a couple months ago, and it's been steadily in rotation on the iPod ever since. Maf's holding down the beats as well as the mic, and his style manages to be both classic (in an early 90s/Golden Era sense) and distinctly southern (check those drums), which he makes seem effortless (the definition of real swagger).


bust it (real) - Maf

The majority of tracks on Death of the Arcade are fire, a nice blend of tightly spun, contemplative joints and upbeat bangers. There's a couple tracks I'm not afraid to skip, just not my taste, but this joint is a hint at bigger things to come when his new album drops later this spring. Check out some of the new tracks on his myspace.

Download the full mixtape here.


im good ft. nom - Maf

Q-Tip Talks about "Award Tour" Beat

I recently heard this snippet on a really dope mixtape tribute to Q-Tip done by JPeriod, and it really struck me how much thought went into Tribe's production (which still stands as some of the most classic of all time without a doubt). If you're one of those people who think that hip hop is based on stealing loops without any creativity, then listen to this:

Behind the Scenes: Dont Walk Away - J.Period & Q-Tip

And for reference, Here's Award Tour:


Award Tour (feat. Truggy, The Dove of De La Soul) - A Tribe Called Quest


Download the whole JPeriod mixtape here, it's one of the best I've heard in a long time.

Public Records

Savannah has been lightly scandalized recently by the SCMPD's move to restrict access to incident reports, meaning that people can no longer go in and ask to see the big clipboard of crime (I used to do it twice a week back when I was covering the crime beat - you wouldn't believe some of the stuff that goes down here - an old man was beaten with his own umbrella for refusing a blowjob - I'll never forget that for as long as I live). Now you have to request specific records, which won't be available until the request is processed through bureaucratic channels, and which could come with an admin fee. BS.

It's illegal. Those incident reports are a matter of public record, and the police know it.

Here's a choice sentence from the introduction to A Law Enforcement Officer's Guide to Open Records in Georgia:
"As members of the law enforcement community, we must always be vigi-
lant to ensure that the public we are sworn to protect and to serve is also
protected in its rights to know what its government is doing."

Oops.



Apparently, it's not restricted to Savannah either. It's becoming an issue in Atlanta as well.

Here's a choice quote: "And while violent crime overall in 2008 may have been down, statistics from October, the latest available stats on the APD Web site, show that murder in that one month increased by 140 percent over the number of murders reported in the same month in 2007, rising from five to 12. Rapes increased by 600 percent from one to seven, and residential burglaries increased by 20 percent from 654 in October 2007 to 784 in October 2008."



In Savannah crime is up in 2008 (Property crime up 14%, violent crime down 3%), but Chief Berkow still says it's a "perception problem," and that Savannah isn't worse than any other major city. So, with crime on the rise, regardless of what kind of crime it is...shouldn't we have more access to information that is relevant to crime in our cities? If I know that there has been a rash of property crimes in my neighborhood, can't I take some measures to ensure it doesn't happen to me? If there's been rapes in my neighborhood, shouldn't I make sure my wife knows. If I have to hear about crimes, then request information, then wait for the request to be processed, and possibly pay an administrative fee, haven't I probably already become a victim?

I will readily admit that a big part of the crime problem in Savannah is perception related, and that once you've lived here for awhile, a crime story is like a DUI charge - a badge of courage in most social circles - but correcting the perception can't be done by restricting access to information. That doesn't help anyone. You can only cook the books for so long before an audit airs out the dirty deeds. I'm also a little surprised there hasn't been more public outrage over this...I guess everyone is too worried about their wallets...


Fuck Tha Police (Explicit) (2002 Digital Remaster) - N.W.A.

Easy Street

This picture was taken on a state highway a little over an hour south of Daytona, FL. We were on our way back from Jupiter—seeing Carrie's childhood home—and didn't stop to see what life was like on Easy Street. Although, judging by the sprawl surrounding it, life there was probably not as good as this Cheeseburger song...


Easy Street - Cheeseburger

That's Not Reality...

I propose that we stop calling it Reality TV.

Robin showed up to work this morning and said that he saw a crew filming what is probably going to turn into the second season of Ruby on the north side of Forsyth Park today. He said that they had a trailer set up for her where she could wait while they were setting up the shots. He described it as "a horse trailer with a garage door." (Ouch.)



I'm not so naive as to believe that reality TV has ever had too much "reality" in the equation, and besides the first couple seasons of Top Chef (it's fallen off lately), I've never really gotten into any of these series. But come on. Ruby Gettinger may not be a trained actress, but she gets paid, and I don't know a single person who has a trailer where they can go grab a bottle of water while their waiting for the light to be right, so can we still call this "reality?"

Furthermore, I don't know if you've ever seen the opening credits, but there's a shot of Ruby walking through the park and a lady passes her by and then does a double take, and glances at her back over her shoulder. Now we're probably supposed to infer that Ruby's weight is so shocking (480lbs when the show started), that people are constantly shocked by her...well, even if that lady wasn't just stopping to see why there was a camera crew in the middle of the park...it turns out that the sensibly sized blonde is one of the show's producers - so they couldn't even avoid setting up what would probably be a pretty easy shot to get.

I probably just shouldn't care, but I started to take issue when the failed trust exercise of low-cost entertainment started to effect the english language—when Court TV folded (the post-'95 OJ Trial legal-frenzy could only last so long) and was replaced by Tru TV. I haven't seen Tru TV, but I guess it's the network equivalent of watching COPS 24-hours a day with a couple of blooper shows thrown in to lighten the mood every now and then. It's all re-packaged raw footage...things captured in "reality." Unfortunately, Reality TV had caused such a mistrust of the term "reality" among the average person that they felt it necessary to create a new word, "Actuality," to describe their programming. "Not Reality. Actuality." That's their tagline.

When something so blatantly surreal as reality television has infiltrated culture to the degree that it has, so much so that what used to be a pretty easy to understand word, reality, is rendered meaningless, then we need to take action. Let's just call it television, because it's starting to mess up my reality.

Best Song of the Week

It's Friday, and the best song I've heard all week is this:

Politicians In My Eyes - Death

Found via Fader (which also has a link for the download).

These guys are from Detroit circa 1975. Whoah. It's like the bastard musical child of punk and metal who spent summers at a villa with prog rock (wait until the breakdown). Fortunately, their album, which I don't think ever actually got released back in the day, is about to see the light of day thanks to Drag City Records.

This song was a runner-up...something considerably mellower that I found after unearthing the complete Dusty Fingers series...

Ripped Open By Metal Explosion - Galt Macdermot

No explanation

If you don't think the internet is magic, then you're either the genius who understands how it works, or you need to stop constantly cyber-stalking your co-workers on Facebook and venture out into some new territory...

I found these images here, with absolutely no explanation, other than they came from the unnamed artists' imagination...I'm assuming that's a more profound statement in Russian, and something was lost in translation...

Enjoy. (Follow the link for a lot more of these)

Dave Allen Says Musicians Are in the T-Shirt Business

It's award season...the Grammy's finally happened (not that they're relevant for anything other than the circus surrounding Chris Brown), and the Academy Awards are a little over a week away (if anything other than Slumdog Millionaire wins best pic, that's crap), so I'm getting in the spirit of the season and giving an award.

Today's 'Award for Exceptional Thinking By A Member of an Awesome Band' goes to Gang of Four's Dave Allen.

He gave a key note address at PopAsheville saying that most musicians are now in the merch business because fans want music for free...That's true...His advice: If you don't put a price on your CD, people will pay you more than you're willing to ask for it...(he includes empirical evidence).

Food for thought.

Besides the fact that Gang of Four kicks ass, Mr. Allen has created an interesting web presence. He's running a blog, a well-maintained
Twitter page , and speaking at various conferences. Dude has really embraced social media and is handling it better than new jacks half his age. Here are some of his thoughts on the ways social media is changing things for music and business.

Bravo Sir.


Naturals Not In It - Gang Of Four


Armalite Rifle - Gang Of Four

Fat Possum to Re-Issue Hi Records Catalog

Oh Damn...

If you like southern soul, then you already know that Memphis-based label Hi Records was pretty much the gold standard for deep soul cuts - including Al Green, O.V. Wright, Ann Peebles, Syl Johnson and so many more. For those hip hop heads, you probably know a lot of these records were the foundation for a ton of Wu-Tang mastermind RZA's samples (if you look at the track listing from the Shaolin Soul series, more than 50% came from either Hi or Stax).

So the big news [via Billboard] is that the label Fat Possum has just gotten the publishing rights for the whole Hi catalog...

Of course Al Green's Greatest Hits have never gone out of print, but there is a ton of amazing material in that catalog that hasn't seen the light of day in a long long time, and hopefully
Fat Possum (who have released great albums from artists like Junior Kimbrough and King Khan) will do it right and bring back some of that lost goodness...if nothing else it will save me the time of having to rip all of my 45s into digital format if I can just pick them up online somewhere...

Take a listen:

Is It Because Im Black, - Syl Johnson

Plus, since it got a mention, here's how RZA flipped the track on The W:

Hollow Bones - Wu-Tang Clan

Comcast Presents ATL hip hop documentary series

I've got to hand it to Comcast, even though I get mad at them sometimes when my internet service drops out, they do an interesting job of mixing it up in different communities. They've been solid supporters of AWOL for awhile, including donating soundproofing to set up the studio for our Sound Design program, and helping fix up the St. Pius Family Resource Center on Comcast Cares Day last May.

Now they're apparently putting together a hip hop documentary series. Makes me wish I could bankroll some digital cable service...I've got big enough problems with TV as time vampire though.

You can follow the series on Twitter - twitter.com/standondemand

Thieves Like Us Should Steal Your Attention

I've got to give a big up to DJ/Design fiend Jake King (he hosts the dope dance party freakout every Saturday night at Hangfire) who put me on to Thieves Like Us months before anyone else had heard their buzz, and their album Play Music has been essential listening for these cold winter months.

Apparently, TLU's album is finally getting a proper U.S. release March 10th on Fantasy Memory, and they will drop a new EP in April on Shelf Life. Good news.

Their sound is cool (in senses of both temperature and hipness), a sonic tangent of the increasing push of electronic music toward something that is both danceable and yet mellow at the same time. (See Fujiya & Miyagi). This is just upbeat enough to keep you in a groove during an iPod accompanied commute, but not so crazy that you'll break out glow sticks and ask the guy next to you for a vapo-rub blowback on your way to work.

The trio is testimony to good international relations, Pontus Berghe (drums) and Bjorn Berglund (keyboards) are from Sweden, and Andy Grier (vocals) is from the United States. They met at a picnic in Berlin. And the album was pieced together during sessions all over the world...

Their musical product lands somewhere between the band's homelands, specifically France, and is reminiscent of a more technologically advanced version of the synthwave stuff going on during the late 70's/early 80s. (See last year's brilliant compilation BIPPP). TLU eschews some of the prevalent (both then and now) post-punk basslines though in exchange for a house-influenced four-on-the-floor foundation that is perfect for Grier's fragile vocal stylings.

This is what the band says about their origins in their bio: "We were fans of rock and pop music and would try to find places to go out drinking and dancing, but all we would hear is techno and electro. The women didn't seem to like us at all. We started deejaying ourselves...We would play old krautrock (nobody recognized it), italo disco, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Factory Records stuff, and even new hip-hop...In Berlin, we heard and saw enough electronic music we didn't like. We thought we could do it better so we started our own band."

Check them out.

Drugs in My Body - Thieves Like Us

Miss You - Thieves Like Us

2/8/09 - The Fleshtones, Superhorse and Tiger! Tiger! @ Savannah Smiles

The good people over at Tiny Team Concerts were kind enough to host a kick ass garage rock revival at Savannah Smiles on Sunday featuring underground rock icons The Fleshtones alongside SAV super-group Superhorse and ATL's Tiger! Tiger!. If you were in Savannah and missed this show for any reason other than being stuck at work (shout out to everyone in the service industry), then you slept on a great show, and a fairly rare opportunity (it's been 15 years since the Fleshtones last stepped foot in Savannah).

For those unfamiliar with the Fleshtones, they came out of the same late-70's/early 80's NYC rock scene that produced The Ramones, The Cramps (who they used to share rehearsal space with back in the day), The Talking Heads and so many more amazing groups. The difference with the Fleshtones is that they were never graced with the rock legend status of so many groups they came up with, and they never broke up. This hard rocking trio has never stopped touring in 30+ years. That's pretty amazing in and of itself.

They have recently started to gain a little bit of credence in the eyes of history: they had a biography (Sweat) published in 2007 and there is also a documentary (Pardon Us For Living But the Graveyard is Full) about to drop, if it hasn't already...

Despite being somewhere in the ballpark of 60 years old, these guys still put on a great show. They know how to have fun and work a crowd. Guitarist Keith Streng ventured into the audience several times during their set (thanks to a wireless connection to his amp), and at one point handed off his guitar to Tiger Tiger's lead guitarist in order challenge Tim O. to a push up competition (I'm really sorry that I didn't get a photo of that).


However, while Streng kept the show interesting, lead singer Peter Zaremba seemed to be in a pretty shitty mood and was taking it out on those in attendance. Granted, they had a little feedback, which was weird considering Superhorse had their usual 4-guitarist-wall-of-sound play without a hitch, but regardless, it doesn't seem like an excuse to not act like a professional, or to drag a whole set down by the short hairs. Besides that, those fellas have probably played at venues with worse sound at some point considering how long they've been around. Harden the fuck up.

I was pretty surprised actually. I had the opportunity to interview Zaremba earlier in the week for a piece that ran in Connect, and he seemed like a nice guy. We didn't have any sound problems though...

I don't know what the final head count was, but a decent crowd had built up by the middle of Superhorse's set. However, there was an underwhelming crowd when Tiger! Tiger! shredded through a high-powered set to start the night off. Regardless, people need to show Tiny Team more love when they put shows on. They present shows oriented toward music aficianados (Daniel Johnston, Jonathan Richman, Frank Black, etc), but even if you've never heard of whoever they're bringing to town, you can always count on it to be a good show.

Also, if for some reason you live in Savannah and have never seen Superhorse, shame on you. They are constantly awe-inspiring live and lead singer Keith Kozel could be in top 10-20 great rock n roll frontmen ever. Seriously. I have never seen a show where he didn't climb up onto the speaker stack, jump into the crowd, change costumes, wear an animal head mask or set something on fire...

Greetings...

Where to begin with something like this...

Hello.

If this were a boat, I'd christen it with a bottle of champagne over the bow, but it's not so let's just move forward with the understanding that this is an ongoing exploration of music, culture, marketing and all the other kibbles and bits that keep me fed.

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