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ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES

Artist: BIAFRA, JELLO Title: Big Ka-Boom, Part One
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
VIRUS 276 CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:
4/15/02
***The seventh spoken word album from exiled DEAD KENNEDY's frontman JELLO BIAFRA. Recorded live in Madison, Wisconsin, November, 2001, Big Ka-Boom is Jello's take on the September, 11th attacks, and the ugly aftermath since, digging up the dirt on George W. Bush's (PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES) staff, along with some some historical events that may have contributed to the tragedy.

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Artist: V/A Title: Apocalypse Always
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
VIRUS 277 CD
Price: $4.00 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:
4/15/02
***You get the goods from new stars and old faves PHANTOM LIMBS, FLAMING STARS, TEENAGE FANCLUB, FLESHIES, SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB, STROBE TALBOT, IOWASKA, NOMEANSNO, MUMIA ABUL-JAMAL, D.O.A., VICTIM'S FAMILY, LARD, NOAM CHOMSKY, MICHAEL GIRA, JELLO BIAFRRA, and more.

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Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Various Artists "Apocalypse Always"

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NINJA TUNE

Artist: CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA Title: All That You Give
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
ZENCDS 103 CD
Price: $6.00 Label: Ninja Tune
Release
Date:
4/15/02
***The latest from this six-piece UK electronic groove ensemble led by JOHN SWINCOE, and another jazz-driven delight. The title trackoa John Barry-inspired soundtrack piece featuring vocals from legendary jazz/soul/gospel singer FONTELLA BASS (wife of Lester Bowie, performer/compsoer of "Rescue Me")obacked by the track "Kalima," and an "All That You Give" remix by HERBERT.

PEEKABOO

Artist: KNIFE IN THE WATER Title: Crosspross Bells
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
BOO1003
Price: $6.75 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:
4/15/02
***Knife in the Water's unique mix of bleak Texas pop and country creates the perfect soundtrack for downing a fifth of bourbon alone in your car, parked outside your ex's house in the dead of winter. You also may or may not be loading a gun. With a subtle blend of organ, guitar, pedal steel, bass and drums, they conjure the barren stretches of Texas plains, the faces in dusty bars and the smell of cheap perfume and sleazy motel rooms.

An Austin five-piece with an academic background in avant-garde minimalism and blood-bucket honky tonk, Knife in the Water is capable and serious in executing their boundary-blurring vision of unusual modern American sounds. The band is comprised of Aaron Blount (vocals, guitar), Laura Krause (vocals, Hammond organ), Bill McCullough (pedal steel), Mark Nathan (bass) and Cisco Ryder (drums), all Texans by birth.

Crosspross Bells finds them moving into more psychedelic-abstract territory than their previous long-players, Plays One Sound and Others and Red River. A resigned spiritual feel is evident on "Crosshair Chapel," and "From the Catbird Seat" bears the lysergic influence of the Thirteen Floor Elevators. The five songs on this EP share the themes of indifference and decay, and find a strange natural calm in both states.

With several US and European tours under their belt, including stints with Calexico and Rhythm of Black Lines, the band is scheduled to crawl the US again this March/April with NYC's Mendoza Line.


Artist: OCTOPUS PROJECT Title: Identification Parade
Format: CD Catalog
Number:
BOO1211
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:
4/15/02
***Drums vs. Drum Machines. Samplers vs. Guitars. Take these oppositional elements, add a willingness to start a band first and learn how to use the gear later, crank it up to 25,000, and that's somewhere in the neighborhood of The Octopus Project, who create a unique style of music for people who like the experimentation of progressive music, the blips and bleeps of electronic music and the raw animalism of rock.

The Octopus Project is the latest development between longtime collaborators Josh Lambert, Yvonne Lambert and Toto Miranda, filling the gap between electronic and rock musics. Having added drum machines, samplers and keyboards to their standard guitar/drums/bass setup, they just turn everything on at once and end up with what has been best described as "ambidextrous equipment failure junk-tronica." Perhaps something like the rock-plus-electronic sounds of IQU, The Flying Lizards, Stereolab or Cornelius, but way more rock (larger, rougher, more collar-grabbing). The recent arrival of Dustin Kilgore and Nik Snell, both of whom play various instruments, adds to the confusion on stage.

Their reputation as the band that "hooks up their half-broken electronic shit all wrong" first attracts the attention, but actually seeing and hearing half-broken electronic shit played way, way too loud seals the deal.

If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Octopus Project "Identification Parade"

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TEDIUM HOUSE PUBLICATIONS

Artist: BANANAFISH Title: Issue #16
Format: MAG+CD Catalog
Number:
BF16
Price: $9.50 Label: Tedium House Publications
Release
Date:
4/15/02
***Oren Ambarchi

Bill Burston interviews the founder of the Australian Noise Users' Society, who has made ultrarefined space-station scree with AMM's Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, out-of-control spazzassins Phlegm, The Menstruation Sisters, Robbie Avenaim, et al. On the CD: Oren Ambarchi, "George"

Leif Elggren

Interview with Swedish electroacoustic musician, letter-writing prankster, dream theorist, national monarch of Elgaland-Vargaland, and conceptual artist whose work ranges from oblique performances to near-static installations. On the CD: Leif Elggren, "Soya"

Robert Dayton

Earl Kuck interviews one of Canada's most notorious extroverts (imagine Nardwuar as a real human being) about comics and diaries in the self-published Bunyon and his hilarious karaoke duo Canned Hamm. On the CD: Canned Hamm, "Teenagers are Growing Up" and July Fourth Toilet, "Noise Maker Pomposity"

Repeat

Jason Kahn debunks onkyo, discusses his electronic duo with Toshi Nakamura, and early work with Arnold Dreyblatt, Universal Congress Of, and Sainkho Namtchylak. On the CD: Repeat, "Brussels 2"

Parmentier

Dylan Nyoukis interviews hyper-relaxed New Zealand expats Rosy Parlane and Dion Workman about their bi-continental "work" as psychotropic electronic musicians. On the CD: Dion Workman, "06.00," and Rosy Parlane, "Lodown"

Halim El-Dabh

Selected excerpts from Denise Seachrist's upcoming biography of the Egyptian-born composer whose pioneering musique concrete predates that of Pierre Schaeffer, and is also noteworthy for an unusual Native American musical influence. On the CD: Halim El-Dabh with Mike Hovancsek, "Three Time Frames"

Paul Winstanley

Another New Zealander interviewed by Dylan Nyoukis, about his time in Texas performing electroacoustic improv/noise with Dave Dove Paul Duo, crashing Lone Star bohemian enclaves, and cruising with Pauline Oliveros's mother. On the CD: JDP Trio, "2/21/95 #2" and "2/21/95 #16"

Lateral Agriculture Order

Overview of this mysterious acronym-damaged Italian organization, including discography, particulars about performances, roster of artists (eighty different ones!) and other inexplicable details. On the CD: tracks by Figlia Villana, Fernanda Craniotome Divortula, Magia Der Callaro, Monarch, Torpid, Lateral Agriculture Order, Jeans Scirri and S.A.A.R.O. featuring Head Tumulata

And the rest...

"Rose Marie to Block," fiction by Roger Pinell; reviews; found mail


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