Meet The Miscreants!

by Michael Lynch

New Jersey's The Miscreants, who have been quickly building a following on the New York area garage scene since their debut last August, are coming to Brooklyn's Magnetic Field (97 Atlantic Avenue) on Saturday, August 21st (with New York's The Anything People.) Taking New York grit and glazing it with New Jersey suburbia, keyboardist Blair Buscareno, drummer Jahna Rain, and guitarists Mike Bonomo and Matt Friedlander offer something unique to the city's endless stream of crash and burn bands.

Their music can be sampled at...

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The Music Business May Be Coming Back

by Mike Bennett

The music industry's hurting and doing better, all at the same is time. The evidence for this up-is-down statement has just come to light. First, the summer concert season has been, for the most part, abysmal. Second, record sales for 2004 are up. Meanwhile, the iPod revolution is in full effect. Overall, these things seem to bode well for music commercially, and should be a boon for consumers.

I think that the concert slump is a blessing...

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The World is Round: Silence is Golden, or Quiet, Please! The Writer is Idling

by Alan Haber

Last month, I wrote about my decluttering mood. I'm still fiercely pruning the knicks and knacks, but I fear I've gone too far, for I seem to have tossed something I am now in desperate need of-something to write about.

Those of you who know me know I'm rarely bereft of subject matter, fodder for my rants, both written and spoken aloud, but I seem to have hit an impasse. Perhaps, hidden between an old book on Crowded House and a microwave cookbook, my old kit bag full of topics ranging far and wide has made its way to a new home, leaving me with straws to grasp at, no topics to tickle in the hope of arousing

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Gary Pig Gold Wonders: Do You Believe, Like I Believe, in the Magic City Music of the Breathers?

by Gary Pig Gold

Straight from the introductory Paperback Byrdsian chimes of “Did You Think,” the kick-off and-then-some on their grand new Magic City Music: Ft. Lauderdale 1981-1896 CD, the one and only Breathers remind us just how that defiantly jangle-jingle territory they laid stake to twenty years ago sounds as fresh and entirely riveting today as it must’ve back in those dank, dark years before the

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Further Observations of a Jangly Music Fan

by Eric Sorensen

For the past nine years, I have engaged in letter and email correspondence with my "pen pal," Rich Horton - better known in DIY pop circles as Optional Art recording artist Rich Arithmetic. In mid-July, Rich and I finally met for the first time … and my wife (who Rich nicknamed "Miss Arizona 1971") and I hosted Rich and his family for a two-week period. It was nice to build some face-to-face and shared memories with Rich and his family and attend some local music events (Ken Stringfellow and the Beatles-inspired Hard Day's Night band) together with Rich. We left our Martin acoustic guitar within Rich's easy reach, and the Arlington, Virginia muse that inhabits our home helped him to put the finishing touches on a composition that he had started years ago. Rich Arithmetic fans will...

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So Much Music....So Little Time

by Kevin Mathews

So Much Music...So Little Time

Funny how it seems these deadlines sneak up on you…here I am on a balmy Saturday afternoon (is there any other kind in Singapore?), trying to finish up this column so I can register a contribution for August. So forget the niceties, ladies and gents, I present…

The Revenge of Blurb-O-Rama!

Jamie Hoover & Bill Lloyd Paparazzi (Paisley Pop)
Two power pop veterans put their collective...

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