Tag: indie music
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The David Roberts Interview
No one knew what to think when we first saw a band called the “Crawfish of Love.” The stage was strewn with surreal artwork, a manikin head, several TV sets turned on to random channels or static, guitar amplifiers, drums, and five musicians that looked like they were conspiring mischief among themselves. Andy King on…
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Joe Meek: Vintage Vinyl and Vice
The fascinating saga of record producer Joe Meek is described by Jan Reetze on her Joe Meek Page, as, “a short life somewhere on the fine line between vision and lunacy . . . oversped, funny, sad, euphoric, depressed; a rollercoaster trip with a dramatic showdown.” The True Vine Record Shop quotes Kate Hodges of Bizarre Magazine: Joe…
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Jazz Man David Amram Talks About Charlie Parker, Willie Nelson, the Internet, and More
Beat jazz pioneer David Amram has collaborated with Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Willie Nelson, and Charles Mingus. He is a multi-talented musician, composer, conductor, world traveler, scholar, and on top of all that, the first time I phoned the 76-year young dynamo, he was outside fixing a tractor on his farm in upstate New York.…
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Arvid Smith
The Cross-Pollination Project is a compilation CD of songs from independent musicians in and around Jacksonville, FL.