Tune in to Bill Chen Vs. Dennis Callaci this Wednesday on KSPC 88.7 FM, or catch the show online to hear five sets of music culled from the recently sold record collection of Tom Verlaine. A fascinating look into some of the formative music, the actual records, that lit up Verlaine’s mind as well as …
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Commercial free terrestrial radio. A platform with no ulterior motive, no ads, other than PSA’s about being mindful of your dog getting hit by a kicked up rock should it’s head be out the window on the freeway, or your legal rights and where to get more information about them. DJ’s of all stripes, encyclopedia …
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The Book of Immaculate Perception / Madrigals is a tête-bêche (flip book) by Marc Zegans and Larry Beckett in which both Madrigals by Beckett and The Book of Immaculate Perception by Zegans read from their respective fronts-to-backs in a single spine format. The confluence between these paired chaps extends beyond shared narrative lines to independently formed …
The Book of Immaculate Perception / Madrigals is a tête-bêche (flip book) by Marc Zegans and Larry Beckett in which both Madrigals by Beckett and The Book of Immaculate Perception by Zegans read from their respective fronts-to-backs in a single spine format. The confluence between these paired chaps extends beyond shared narrative lines to independently …
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Artist Amy Maloof has worked in many mediums. Cinder block, painting, drawing, collage, repurposing objects and music. I could begin to discuss how important and meaningful her work has been to me for decades, but fear that I would never stop, hammering at the keys of this laptop long after the battery has refused a …
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“Bald men flare like matchsticks, lighting up the caves around them,” Jeff Friedman and Meg Pokrass write in Aurora Baldealis, a collection of fabulist micro stories in which two master storytellers imagine a universe where bald men are mirrors for other bald men, where an angel can break or mend a heart, where the Northern lights …
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Now and Then, Now is the second collection of stories from Margot Hover on Bamboo Dart Press. These stories find joy in the smallest of corners, maybe outside of a Costco, or the most heartbreaking of places where the author triumphs by painting full bodied portraits of those that touched her with minor or major acts …
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Every year Charles Cicerella’s Radio Ether presents a program celebrating Bob Dylan’s birthday featuring covers of Zimmerman recorded exclusively for his show by underground luminaries and dark corner dwellers. This years program is as thoughtfully sequenced and put together as ever by Charles. Check it out here. https://archive.org/details/208525
“Book of Books” by Tara Tavi is a vibrant collection of altered books turned into small worlds that lead the viewer past paintings and into shadowboxes. These are stories nested within stories. The trapdoors are the books themselves, the stories they tell, the images they show and the physicality of a rectangular prism of printed …
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The legendary Souled American have announced their first tour in 35 years and Dirty Opera has secured a show for them in Southern California at Folk Music Center on Saturday, May 16th at 7:30pm (doors at 7pm). This is a an intimate seated event, and tickets are nearly gone. Tickets are only available directly from …
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