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Speaking of Nuda Veritas (aka REBECCA KOPYCINSKI), I'm happy to report that she has finally finished recording the long-awaited followup to her mind-bogglingly excellent 2009 double album, Songs for Doing Dishes/Still Lives. There's no official release date yet, but Fm told it's now in the mixing and mastering stage and should be out in a month-ish. On a personal note, I'm kinda sad about this development, as it means I'll have to find some other long-overdue artist or band to publicly harass about putting out a new record. But who? (Looking in your direction, BLUEBUTTON, SWALE, ANDERS PARKER CLOUD BADGE, MARYSE SMITH, Swale, DIRTY WATTS, TORPEDO RODEO and Swale.)
Band Name of the Week: The REX COMPLEX. You may or may not dig the band's self-described "roots ruckus" sound - I prefer their selfdescribed "freakfuckall" stuff, personally. But MORPHINE'S DANA COLLEY loves 'em. The bari-sax player touted the Brooklyn^based experimental rock outfit as "one of the most exciting bands I have had the pleasure of playing with." Pretty high praise from the dude who played with flicking Morphine. Pardon me. TRC are at Radio Bean this Sunday with railbird.In a recent email, Patrick ORMiSTON might have just stumbled upon a new Seven Daysies award category: "Best Not From Vermont but From Vermont Band." The japhy Ryder bassist was referring to an intriguing new group he's performing with, wontanara. I don't think that creating their own category would preclude them from winning the (completely fictional) award, though. The septet is led by Guinea-born vocalist and doundoun player seny daffe and is essentially a mashup of Japhy Ryder and African drum ensemble jeh kulu. They'll be at the Parima Main Stage this Saturday, opening for Montpelierbased electro-funk fusionists CASIO BASTARD.See the full content of this document
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Nothing rewards the intimate labor of love that is creating music like presenting it to a roomful of strangers and asking them to vote on whose deeply personal form of self-expression is "best." I mean, that's why one plays music, right? To have his or her innermost fears and dreams arbitrarily judged by (possibly drunk) others? Well, that and to score chicks. But I dig...See the full content of this document
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