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Partch at California Plaza
Los Angeles, California July 20, 2007 Beneath the blaring hot sun. Harry Partch (1901-1974) merely succeeded in realizing the most perfectly constructed, personal musical universe of the 20th Century. Shunning twelve-tone equal temperament—which…
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Partch at the REDCAT 2007
Los Angeles, California May 30, 2007 Leaving Colfax, Californi-ax! Harry Partch (1901-1974) merely succeeded in realizing the most perfectly constructed, personal musical universe of the 20th Century. Shunning twelve-tone equal temperament—which has dominated…
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Jandek at Issue Project Room
Brooklyn, New York September 7, 2005 I saw Jandek. He is real. He wore all black with his shirt tucked into weird slacks with a hat, sort of like an odd Houston nightclub…
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ArthurFest 2005 at Barnsdall Park
Los Angeles, California September 4-5, 2005 Arthur is a 1960s-influenced contemporary counterculture magazine who put on an arch eclectic two-day music festival called, appropriately enough, ArthurFest on Labor Day weekend in 2005. Featuring…
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Sir Richard Bishop at the Knitting Factory
Hollywood, California June 5, 2005 As one third of genre-ignoring aural juggernaut the Sun City Girls, six-string-slinger Sir Richard Bishop has, for the flesh-eating lion’s share of three decades, permanently stained the unsuspecting…
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Slint at the Avalon
Hollywood, California March 13, 2005 “Good morning, Captain.” Slint was an obscure indie rock band who, when they weren’t bathing in Kentucky’s loveliest lakes, played a few shows and released a grand total…
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White Out and Dos at Spaceland
Los Angeles, California February 26, 2005 Dueling banjos, I mean basses. Mike Watt and Kira Roessler = Dos. On a cool winter night in 2005, a duo of duos blasted out some musical…
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Charalambides at the Smell
Los Angeles, California November 5, 2004 Ever since I bought Charalambides Historic Fifth Ward and Ash Castles on the Ghost Coast self-titled CDs back in the mid ’90s, I’d always wanted to experience…
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Rod Poole at the Smell
North Hollywood, California, 1998 Los Angeles, California, circa 2002 The acoustic guitar playing of Rod Poole is among the most mesmerizing to enter human heads over the past two decades. Although he started…
