A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans Digital audio art using speech and/or music as raw materials MUTILAUDIO is an appropriative art form, using existing recordings as source materials. The tradition goes back centuries in various media, but the technological advances of the modern age have opened vast new realms. I started creating these works in 1985, using analog tape in various … Read more
dumpdelay.com is written by Susan DuQuesnay. Most of the pieces were published in The Fort Bend Star, a weekly newspaper in Tom DeLay’s hometown. According to the front page, “Susan DuQuesnay also maintains a website about Fort Bend politics (Tom’s home district) – and some semi-daily comments about Tom DeLay at www.brazosriver.com.” Here’s a sample … Read more
Al Franken’s Midwest Values Pac web site has the transcript of a speech Al gave, sharing the dais with Ann Coulter. An excerpt: Let me give you an example of Ann lying by omission. Also in her book Slander, Ann tells her readers that Al Gore had a leg up on George W. Bush when … Read more
Dark Star-> St. Stephen-> I Know It’s a Sin-> St. Stephen That’s It for The Other One-> Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) – Grateful Dead 4/17/69 Washington University, St. Louis MO (Download #12) Lonesome LA Cowboy – New Riders of the Purple Sage 10/7/05 Joyous Lake, Woodstock NY Taught to Be Proud – Tea … Read more
Tonight: The new GD download is a CD and a half of 4/17/69, plus two songs from a 1/23/69 rehearsal. I’m listening to a killer “Other One” right now. I’ll play a good sampling of this two-disc set in the first hour tonight, and then get into some of the music I heard on my … Read more
More from Jamm in Jamaica: eKoostik Hookah had a personnel shakeup recently, with Ed McGee departing and founding member John Mullins returning. The Hookah fans at Jamm in Jamaica were very happy with the music they heard, and so was I. Here’s Steve Sweeney: When they launched into “Cumberland Blues,” I jumped onstage to sing … Read more
Mark Morford has a great rant in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. His point of departure is a new TV ad for home security systems, but Morford (correctly, in my opinion) recognizes it as another entry in the relentless campaign to Keep America Scared. Fear is good business, as the Republicans in particular and the entire … Read more
Guest hosts: Tim Lynch and Phil Osegueda Cold Rain and Snow Mama Tried Row Jimmy Cassidy Brown-Eyed Women Big River Might as Well Lazy Lightning-> Supplication Tennessee Jed – Grateful Dead 6-14-76 Beacon Theater, NYC, NY – If You Don’t Get It At Home – Greg Brown, Further In Sweet Honey Fountain – Hot Buttered … Read more
Week of April 3, 2006 Part 1 32:32 Bob Weir and Ratdog 3/1/06 KPFA Performance Studio JAM-> JACK STRAW-> DARK STAR-> ODESSA Part 2 24:48 Papermill Creek Rounders 1/28/06 KPFA Performance Studio, Berkeley CA HIPPIE FROM OLEMA GIRL AT THE CROSSROADS BAR DRIFTIN’ WITH THE TIDE LOVERS’ LANE I’M HERE TO GET MY BABY OUT … Read more
(photo by Rita Hurault) The music business is a great way to not make a living, but what adventures! Just got back from Jamm in Jamaica, a week in Negril with several of my favorites: Donna the Buffalo, Railroad Earth, Hot Buttered Rum, the new/revived edition of eKoostik Hookah, The Big Wu, Matt Butler’s Everyone … Read more