The Disassociation is an eight-piece band featuring Amy Maloof, Jonathan Lethem, Sam Sousa, and all five members of Refrigerator. Author Jonathan Lethem penned lyrics during late 2020 for Dennis Callaci to write music to (Lethem had previously written lyrics for Lee Ranaldo and Walter Salas-Humara among others). The intention was to start a band with …
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The Legendary Souled American has announced their first tour in thirty-five years, and Dirty Opera has secured a show for them in Southern California at our favorite venue, The Folk Music Center. The show at The Folk Music Center is on Saturday, May 16th at 7:30 PM, doors at 7. This is an intimate evening …
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I had seen Lavina Blossom’s artwork before I had read her poetry. So when she approached Mark Givens and I about a book, we thought it would be lovely to issue a book that highlights both aspects of her artistry. In Here to Be Remade, Blossom has gathered a cohesive collection of poems that allow …
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Dirty Opera is the production company that my pals Dimitri Coats, Eddie Gonzalez, and I run locally. Our final event at The Claremont Laemmle 5, a lovely independent theater that is shuttering this location at the end of January, is one worthy of a farewell for this institution in the community. We are screening River’s …
The Last Chance Lottery is an old dream of a record. L. Eugene Methe and I started working on it a year or so ago after the idea of it had been floating around us for decades. In a cottage industry whirlwind, the two of us wrote, performed, engineered, created the artwork, videos, cover artwork, and …
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Lavina Blossom’s first book for Bamboo Dart Press is a dream. A collection of 32 poems that owes its vocabulary to a separate book of poems taken from the writer’s bookshelf–usually the first and last lines in that collection. The author set herself the challenge of creating a coherent poem from each word set without borrowing …
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