Tune in to Bill Chen vs. Dennis Callaci on KSPC this Wednesday, September 18th from nine am to noon for a special music performance by Bhajan Bhoy. Bhajan Bhoy is guitarist Ajay Saggar, a staunchly independent, creative and versatile musician who has been active in European music happenings since the 1980s. He has played in …
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TM Givens forthcoming book on Bamboo Dart Press, Standing in Line: Coffee Shop Drawings captures the restlessness, surprise, laughter and blooming doldrums on exhibit in our shrinking public squares. Givens has exhibited in a variety of media, with sculpture at the Ankrum Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chaffey College, and with drawings …
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Food Fortunata and Furniture Huschle have written and issued thousands of songs between them over the last forty plus years. You may know Joel Huschle, of Furniture Huschle from his myriad of solo and collaborative records including his work with Wckr Spgt, and perhaps Food Fortunata from his work as Sockeye and dozens of other …
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Adam Greenfield’s Dinner Party Music is a surrealistic look at how men pass on a legacy of anger to one another and the women in their lives who choose to escape it.If these walls could talk…they’d tell the story of generations of rage that are literally embodied in the walls of a family home. Greenfield’s previous books …
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Limited edition first pressing of the new Refrigerator LP “Get Lost” is out now on vinyl. Second pressing and CD available in the new year. Jad Fair’s art houses the vinyl with as little script as possible on the sleeve to keep from obfuscating the beauty of his work. Check out the second song/video from …
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Jeff Friedman’s Broken Signals is a wildly imaginative collection of dazzling fabulist micro tales that reveals a world of inexplicable mysteries in which we struggle to love each other and ourselves. A girl coughs out salmon fillets for the family dinner; a man can’t remember his father’s face; a man’s lover believes he’s Paul Newman…a female mime …
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Not only was the record and the script for the film, Free LSD birthed in Pomona and Claremont, but scenes in the film were shot out this way. The film is a total joy to behold. If you live in the area, you can check out a screening at The Laemmle in Claremont on Tuesday …
Jeff Friedman’s Broken Signals is a wildly imaginative collection of dazzling fabulist micro tales that reveals a world of inexplicable mysteries in which we struggle to love each other and ourselves. A girl coughs out salmon fillets for the family dinner; a man can’t remember his father’s face; a man’s lover believes he’s Paul Newman…a female mime …
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“The heart is not a metaphor – no, wait – the heart is a metaphor.”King Daddy’s first volume of poetry for Bamboo Dart Press, Fine in a Minute, follows the author as he attempts to make sense of his life after the loss of his wife and muse of 30 years, Wendrika Thorpe, chronicling his grief …
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Refrigerator’s new record, Get Lost, is out August 23rd on Shrimper/Grapefruit Records. The album opener, Fire on 12th Street is the first music and video released by the band from the record. The song, recorded live in one take by Steve Folta, is a jumble of stabbing guitars, loping drums, broken glass and a hymnal …
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