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News and Notes: Leo Nine reissue ‘Modern’
Was 1998 really a decade ago? That was the year a little known band from Australia – sporting the moniker Battered Fish – released a moody Brit-poppy album called Modern. In a fit of nostalgia and perhaps a hat tip to Pavement and their practice of re-releasing albums a decade after their original release date, the band […]
News and Notes: Danielson release free EP
As they gear up for a tour that starts Halloween day, Danielson are releasing an early six-song treat for fans over at the Secretly Canadian site. Alive, a free six-song EP, can be downloaded HERE. It features live and radio broadcast recordings of some Danielson classics. While you are waiting for the songs to download, direct another tab HERE to find […]
News and Notes: Muxtape to return (sort of)
Muxtape was an overnight success bound to attract the wrong kind of attention from the folks at the Recording Industry Association of America because, unlike the cassette mix tapes of old, the online music site was too easily accessible and popular to not be threatened with legal action. The clutter and ad-free digital mix-tape site […]
News and Notes: Recording of second Folsom Prison show to be released
It turns out Johnny Cash, his soon to be bride and the rest of his outlaw crew gave not one, but two shows at Folsom Prison on Jan. 13, 1968. The recording of the first, of course, is well known. It’s even often credited with catapulting the “man in black” to stardom. The recording of the second […]
News and Notes: Conference to honor Merton
A weekend conference has been scheduled for late October to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s death and honor his personal vision for concerned individuals to dialogue, in a contemplative way, on the major issues confronting humanity. Contemplative living is defined as a practice that focuses on seeing life in the context of core […]
Hip-hop meets the Muppets
Rapper Kanye West has reportedly teamed up with Comedy Central on a project being touted as hip-hop meets the Muppets. The folks behind the project were also behind another Comedy Central show starring puppets, “Crank Yankers.” Billboard has more details.
News and Notes: Series on inner-city church awarded
A series about the birth and trials of a neighborhood church in inner-city Boston received the top prize over the weekend in the Religion Newswriters Association’s 2008 excellence in religion reporting in the mainstream media contest. Michael Paulson, of The Boston Globe, penned the four-part series that ran in the paper and online in December 2007. “Ma Siss’s […]
News and Notes: Witmer single available
“Beautiful Boys and Girls,” the first single off Denison Witmer’s forthcoming album Carry The Weight is now available in digital-only format from iTunes and eMusic. The album is releasing in its entirety Nov. 11 on digital and CD through The Militia Group and vinyl format through Burnt Toast Vinyl.