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Is there a name for this kind of architecture that is invariably found in gentrifying neighborhoods, incredibly incongruous, blocky and ugly and imposing? Is this “shitty brutalism”?
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It's kind of funny that when you poke your head above the level of 'music twitter' you remember that for the general public, the Spotify controversy is entirely about the vague concept of 'disinformation' (i.e. culture war) rather than the cold hard facts of mass-scale wage theft
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The idea of a Pavement musical — combining the quintessential “slacker” band with the most tryhard genre of performance — makes no sense. But you know what *would* make sense? A Destroyer musical.
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I can't get ahold of my Sweetwater guy and I'm genuinely concerned
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At some point in my early teens, my mom went out of town on a trip, and my dad said: "Your mother won't let me play album this in the house." And he put on Karma by Pharoah Sanders. That album changed my life. It cosmically, exponentially expanded my understanding of music. 1/x
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What’s so fascinating right now is the self-imposed lockdown. No one at the fed/state/city level imposing any sort of restrictions whatsoever. Gigs/hangouts/parties canceled cos we don’t wanna get sick. And an absentee government essentially pretending it’s not happening?
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I'm listening to Chris Bell's album I AM THE COSMOS and it's very, very good
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In an era that has not aged well, Soundgarden made a lot of tasteful choices
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Suicide were such a good band that there's someone ripping off their hyper-specific thing in every major American city to this very day
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The Varitone electrical amplification system for saxophone was not commercially successful as a product when it was introduced in 1967. Therefore it has a lot in common with Sunwatchers albums and that’s why it’s on our next one 🤠
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Sometimes you put on a record by a cherished veteran of the experimental music community and it sounds like a goat baying through a metal zone pedal into a Crate amp
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Rick Froberg an actual musical hero. Genius musician, genius lyricist, genius visual artist. The music of Hot Snakes will live inside my mind until I leave the planet. Rest in peace Rick.
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I have always enjoyed them, but I am only now becoming fully obsessed with the rock and roll group known as U.S. Maple
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Ted Kazcyinski, Silvio Burlesconi, and Cormac McCarthy just jamming the fuck out in heaven
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Pharoah left us roughly two years after my dad, roughly around Trane's birthday. What does it mean? Maybe nothing, maybe something. I'm grateful for the possibility of mystery, I'm grateful for the music of Pharoah Sanders, and I'm grateful to my dad for sharing it with me. 4/4
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I'm listening to The Best of Donovan, and there's only one problem: this album sucks
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I found a great interview w/ Al Johnson from U.S. Maple on tumblr last night and I don't want to alarm people but apparently they have an unreleased Derek Bailey collaboration they're sitting on?!
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It's a nice tradition we've established these days: the Ceremonial Lifting of Restrictions followed by the Uptick in Cases. Sort of like Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
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"The Creator Has a Master Plan" was spiritually, sonically, emotionally completely unlike anything I'd ever heard. It was noise music and sacred music. I would listen to it with my eyes closed and I knew I was receiving very important information. 2/x
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The border patrol person at JFK asked me why I’d been traveling in Europe and I said “I play saxophone in a rock band” and it was at that moment that I realized I play saxophone in a rock band
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I just played a show with eight high quality acts, near-flawless set turnovers, zero rude or vibey people, and gratitude shared freely among all. Wow
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I finally read Derek Bailey's book Improvisation, an inspiring and vital work. But I have to admit, when he brings up Buckethead in the last three pages, it's a twist of the knife
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Sunwatchers LP5 is out today. Grateful for peoples’ interest. Also glad to share this release date with Patrick Shiroishi, Signal Quest, Tyvek, etc 🙂
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My dad passed away two years and two days ago. I haven't been able to bring myself to listen to the Floating Points record yet, not for any aesthetic reasons, it's just too close in proximity to that pain. I am really looking forward to being in a place where I can hear it. 3/x
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There’s one guy out there who definitely has absolutely no interest in the Floating Points discourse on Twitter and that guy’s name is Pharoah Sanders
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When I'm having trouble getting inspired while writing music, a go-to trick I like to use is listening to someone more talented than me and using their ideas
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When a song starts with someone counting "1, 2, 3, 4," you know something crazy is about to happen
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While on tour 5 years ago, Sunwatchers was doing laundry in Lafayette Indiana and there was a CD store next door. It was my birthday. I looked to see if they had anything I'd played on and and they did - this record. That's yours truly on foghorn baritone saxophone on track one.
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Last night Sunwatchers played in a crowded bar, and while it was great to see so many friends, it was overwhelming. I didn't really feel comfortable until I was onstage setting up, and as soon as we started playing I felt great. Music makes communication so much easier for me.
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I used to get mad about new bands that are a total ripoff of some other earlier bands. But I think it's fair for every generation to want their own version of a given thing. The imitators will either gradually begin to generate their own ideas or fade from memory. No harm no foul
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Feeling extraordinarily fortunate today and hoping everyone out there is doing ok. Best gift I got this year: this smart-looking metronome. No more apps. Just shedding off the grid. My tempo’s gonna be more locked than ever in 2023
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Yours truly,
@duderrave
, and
@JoeWhiteNoise
featured in the New York Times. Thx to
@sethcolterwalls
for digging into our crew’s tunes.
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I'm going to check out a new venue in New York City tonight called "The Knitting Factory"
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One of the coolest things about the UK is that no one here has ever heard of Bill Maher
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The only time I've ever stood outside a sold out show hustling for a ticket was to see Hot Snakes at the Bell House in 2017. Every time they started a song I lost my mind anew. The fiercest group led by someone with the sharpest goddamn mind.
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Man, I wonder how many Rocket from the Crypt tattoos are out there. More than 500??
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I work at
@Roulette_NYC
and tomorrow night Weds Dec 21 is the winter solstice and you know what that means: six-hour Phill Niblock gig. Come sit in the drones and watch four movies at the same time while the man himself plays solitaire. Always awesome.
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Wow, that record was really good; I enjoyed both sides a lot. Maybe I'll listen to it on the correct speed
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My favorite American rock bands as of right now today this moment
1. Devo
2. Van Halen
3. CCR
4. Hot Snakes
5. Television
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Long time coming but Recurring Dream is a physical reality.
@KindercoreVinyl
knocked it out the park and got me 300 of these “bad boys” in record time. Come take em away from me at
@Roulette_NYC
tmrw Tues March 1st. Doors at 7, music at 8, bar will be open ♥️
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I want to remove the part of my brain that’s irritated by people playing music off their devices while on public transit so I can finally be happy
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Forcing everyone in my life to join me on my U.S. Maple journey
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tortoise's album TNT, we spoke to the little guy trapped in the album cover
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I ran into Jim White on the subway the other day and he told me his duo w/ Emmett Kelly is putting out a new single soon 🤯
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Quasi killed last night. We’re very lucky Sam & Janet discovered one another, they are a perfect musical duo. The songwriting is timeless (almost traditional) but no one else sounds like them. I could go on and on. Go see them on this tour or live to suck eggs
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Every sort of performance needs to be immersive now and I'm sick of it. I want to do the opposite so I looked it up and it turns out I'm already doing it
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RECURRING DREAM comes out in one week. This is very important to me, because - I can’t stress this enough - I really want you to listen to this album. There is no filler on this record. No segues, no interstitial ambience, no half-stepping. Just 10 songs that are worth your time.
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My new solo saxophone tape JUST WHAT I FEEL is available for pre-order. 30 minutes of harsh 2022 reality.
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Uh oh. It's The For Carnation time
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Kids these days think “California Uber Alles” is a West Coast rideshare app/brewery collab
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I'm thinking about the time when jaimie played a benefit concert that we put on at Trans-Pecos and did a solo set - coming *DIRECTLY* from having work done at the dentist. Toughest fucking person.
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Best things to do while on a long flight
1. Watch The Departed
2. Watch The Dark Knight
3. Watch The Dark Knight Rises
4. Try to meet the pilot and become his or her friend
5. Same as
#4
but for the air marshal
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Based on The Silence of the Lambs and Stop Making Sense alone, Jonathan Demme left behind a near-perfect cinematic legacy. Which is why I'm developing an AI-generated recreation of both films with their male leads swapped out for one another
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Ryley and I recorded this on Friday.
@IRCAM_official
mastered it on Sunday and
@dmackdrwns
did the art yesterday. Today you’re listening to it
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🎶 Old man take a look at my life, are you ready for some football 🎶
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Patrick Shiroishi/Jeff Tobias tape is out today! No tape title, no track titles. Three improvisations for two sopranino saxophones. 50 copies available at Topos Bookstore or online thru Topos Press.
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Making myself miserable before therapy to get my money's worth
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I’m comically jet lagged and zig zagging in and out of WiFi so just to let everyone know: I’m putting my debut solo full length album up for preorder now. It’s called RECURRING DREAM. Please consider adding it to your
@Bandcamp
Friday haul. Link in tree.
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There are play buttons next to all the tracks - release the bats - RECURRING DREAM is out, go listen to it!!! 👾
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Free idea for stage banter: “Do we have any music fans in the audience tonight?”
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For one month when I was 25 I lived in a punk house where every room was shared by two people. The house band was a standard four-piece punk combo except with a djembe instead of drums. They were called Colostomy Bag. There’s a statue of a football player on the yard there now
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I would like to contribute playing/writing to one album a week for the rest of my life. That's the pace set by Ron Carter. My recent track record is about 1/5 of that, which is fine I guess but not my goal. Hit me up to play on your record.
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Today I found out my therapist saw Sun City Girls when he was in high school. He said that Charles Gocher had his sticks duct taped to his hands. Was that a regular ("regular") thing Gocher did?
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Going to a band practice in hopes that it saves what has been a painful day. Wish me luck
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I’ve been encouraged to share the Jeff Tobias Recurring Dream Band stage plot with you all.
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I volunteered at this unreal Mars Williams gig at the Stone in 2017. I leapt out of my chair from sheer excitement at least once. His ability to pivot between arty mainstream success and a legit underground career is enviable, but beyond that, he was just a great player. RIP.
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Every fuckin year I
-agree to play a gig on my bday
-under-promote because self conscious
-worry it’ll be underattended and I’ll be sad
-frantically promote at the last minute
Recurring Dream Band at Public Records in Brooklyn Fri April 29 7:30 for
@bangonacan
Long Play Fest!!!!
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Tonight I went to Sunview Luncheonette and crammed myself into one of the phone booths and listened to Powers/Rolin/Bohannon bring forth absolutely pure tonal bliss. Then I went to SPR (the 'new'/'old' location) and got to sit in on a song with Matt Bachmann. It was a GREAT night
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The four phases of my hangover today
1️⃣ misery
2️⃣ Sunwatchers practice
3️⃣ sitting in park
4️⃣ lying on floor of practice space
5️⃣ manic MM&W shitposting
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I like to think that if you're in Stereolab and you show any emotion onstage, you get fined - like James Brown or Buddy Rich level strictness but for expression of any kind
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New solo saxophone tape is finally submitted to the duplication place. Hopefully will be able to share by the end of the summer. It's insane.
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Sunwatchers is playing two shows this week. Tonight (Thurs) we're at Union Pool w/ the incredible Mountain Movers & Smoke Bellow. Then we're jamming w/ SB again tomorrow night at Tubby's in Kingston, a place I've heard a ton about but have yet to visit. Hope to see y'all there❤️
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This phrase gets thrown around a lot, but Brötzmann was one of the best to ever do it. Power and beauty in music.
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@hhhhhennies
I love the part in the Anthony Braxton book where one of his bandmates gives him shit for getting a Big Mac and Braxton’s like “oh excuse me sorry we’re not all millionaires, Mr. Organic”
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"Chimes of Freedom" is a great Bob Dylan song because at first it's like "damn this guy is pretty good" and then at four and a half minutes you go "oh fuck he has a harmonica"
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Did you have trouble sleeping last night like me and everyone I have spoken to today?
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I feel like all my friends got to do Music/Touring Discourse today but I had to sit through Housing/Architecture Discourse like it was in-school suspension or some shit
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The most ethical people with the best taste - this is a win for everyone
It’s my distinct and unfathomably deep honor to announce that
@MatthewJRolin
and I are now curating Astral Editions ✨
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Gracias to
@Marcissist
for writing up Just What I Feel. It's a genuine honor to be compared to the great Don Rickles 🏒
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I’m still holding out hope that one day I will discover an upload of the episode of Howard Stern where they listened to and critiqued the music of Zs
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I made a music video for "Thank You For Your Service"!! Premiered today courtesy of the fine folks at
@new_commute
- an anti-rainbow capitalism screed writ large, check it out
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