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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…
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All Tomorrow’s Parties 2003
The Queen Mary Long Beach, California November 8-9, 2003 The Black Heart Procession. As I write this in October 2008, half a decade after the fact, my memories of this event are not…
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Lightning Bolt at the Echo
Los Angeles, California October 13, 2003 Brendan, Dude, I fully watched you walk by when I was in line for Lightning Bolt last night. (I was around the corner, about 20 feet away…
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Stereolab at The Belly Up
Solana Beach, California November 19, 1999 Laetitia Sadier handles the vocals. Stereolab: They came, they saw, they played, and everything was just fine and dandy…until the end of their set, that is. As…
