I've been friendly with the guitarist and singer/songwriter Gary Lucas since the late 1980s, so I've followed, sometimes from a fair remove, sometimes pretty up close, his collaborations with the…
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While I mull over whether to compose and post an essay titled "The Woody Allen Plank" (it's not likely, I gotta say), I ask you to check out the movie…
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Bells≥ at the Tiger Lounge, May 4. Chris Ernst, Zach Barocas, Stephen Shodin. Photo by D. Robert Wolchek. As a New York dweller who's often virtually consumed by the exigencies…
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Arguably, one of the problems with Lou Reed's 1975 electro-acoustic piece "Metal Machine Music" (the first iteration of which was released on the eponymous double LP by Reed) is that…
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My friend Gary Lucas, besides being one of our greatest living guitarists, is a well-lived man with a wide range of interests, and when he resided in Taipei in the…
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Two of Fred Frith's homemades, The Stone, August 30, before the evening's second set. This evening and tomorrow, Sunday, September 1, the multi-instrumentalist and composer Fred Frith will play two…
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