GM Europe dates now posted, see Upcoming Shows. I’ll have copies of a new 3-inch tour cdr available on these dates – click below for an excerpt. Will be back on June 1st…

…On one hand he mimics his social betters who come to eat in the restaurant, but on the other hand he is not one of them; he’s just a slob like everyone else.

Got to revisit the cosmic guitar noise of Northern Cross on Wednesday w/ my dear friend Kris Lapke – for the Hospital curated month at the Stone in NYC. Here’s an excerpt of some particularly fine speaker damage / reverb worship…

Keith F. Whitman and I finished compiling our “year-end” lists for 2011.
You can give ‘em a looksie at the Mimaroglu Music Sales website here

Solar flares and unseasonably warm weather here in RI…
I should have new tapes out in the coming months on the DRAFT and Ekhein labels.

Years ago, I found these old home-cut 78′s among my grandfather’s records. There were three of them, containing a number of songs performed by my great-grandparents, Agnes and Peter Mullen. I thought they had been lost or destroyed, but I found them! They’re pretty beat up, but I was able to transcribe ‘em thanks to my trusty (and slowly dying) Califone portable record player. Still very noisy, but they are, as far as I know, the only recordings of my great-grandfather – who it turns out was quite the piano player!

Listening to these reminds me of the scene in Touch of Evil when Orson Welles pays Marlene Dietrich a visit and reminisces about her pianola…

I believe this was recorded in 1947.

I’ve found myself buying Compact Discs lately. Yes, that’s right. CD’s…

When labels like Editions RZ and Tochnit Aleph keep putting great stuff out,
I must reach for my wallet. Sometimes it’s nice to not have to get up and flip a record.