Tag: Music
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AL FIN
Sonidos Nómadas, a psych-rock group based out of Long Beach and Mexico City, is an epic new project featuring a mashup of members from Chicano Batman and Octopus Brothel. Their new single, Al Fin, is sung from the bittersweet perspective of a Zapatista living on the edge of death and coming to terms with what…
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PHAUL/DEGLET NOOR FAKIRS
PHAUL/DEGLET NOOR FAKIRS LIVE ON DUNG MUMMY RADIO This is a Long Beach gem. Dung Mummy radio is “a radio show combining experimental music, ethnic field recordings, noise, and celebration of life amidst the decay of a dying empire,” and is the brainchild of Hop-Frog Collectiv, a musician-owned label. Their music is unlike anything you’ve…
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MUSICIAN PORTRAITS
MUSICIAN PORTRAITS BY DEAN WESTERFIELD Here’s another batch of Dean Westerfield’s thoroughly enjoyable musician portraits. Follow him on Facebook and Instagram (Westerinocomix) to get even more updates about his new graphic novel dealing with jazz and the life of Albert Ayler. Herbie Nichols Steve Cropper Iggy Pop D. Boon Seymour Cassel Ted Joans (poet)
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CAVE PAINTINGS
Octopus Brothel‘s first album, Cave Paintings, is a high-energy tribute to the band’s ’60s and ’70s psych rock influences, but it’s also quite a bit more. Octopus Brothel finds its own sound in this album, showing its talents for hard, bluesy rock (Eternity), experimental structures (Butterfly Funeral), atmospheric romance (Northern Country), and finally for epic,…
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PULSE
PULSE MAGAZINE, circa 1997 (ONE-PAGE COLOR COMICS) BY DEAN WESTERFIELD AND JEFF GUARINO These are scans from the Pulse Magazine comics Dean Westerfield and Jeff Guarino did way back in 1997. Pulse and Classical Pulse were free magazines Tower Records gave away. They had comix on the last page. Marc Wiedenbaum was the editor for…
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