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The Searchers I've been living in New York too long when I no longer pay attention to the racism, brutality, and turmoil between man and...

And just when I was questioning the notion of physicality at a concert, I wound up at PS1's Music is a Better Noise opening, with Alan ...

Mister Tamborine Man hisself I have written about Bruce Langhorne before, regarding his soundtrack for Peter Fonda's dusted western, The...

Gang Gang Dance (City Pages) Jandek (The Stranger) A week or so ago, my friends Mark and Julie came to town, on the occasion of Julie'...

Not to get all English 1304: The 19th Century American Novel on you, but seeing as how I had to take one ramshamble interview with Califone...

Waylon Jennings (Original led: The Other Man in Black: Warts, Coke Bumps, and all) DFA Remixes Chapter 2 Susan Christie - Paint A Lady/ Jea...

It requires two eyefuls to fully absorb the pandemonic Joe Coleman show at the Tilton Gallery, not to mention two rides above 14th Street t...

The readers of Beta Blog, the silent dozens, they generally don't turn to this illuminated page for unsigned hype, for the hottest four ...

Booddha on the brain. This should be read before the TV on the Radio feature, where it was meant to serve as prelude to the article, thus ty...

Anthony Lane deemed such celluloid the visual equivalent of "perfect pitch." Godard and Kurosawa gushed about the master, Kenji Mi...

Fitting that my paperback copy of Kenneth Patchen's 1941 anti-novel The Journal of Albion Moonlight decides to give up the ghost as I r...

Chomp-chomp. In the days leading up to Tony Joe White's show at Joe's Pub, I had a song of his looping on the iPod inside my head. G...

A feature on that evergreen girl group, ESG plus: Robbie Basho's Venus in Cancer and over at Paper Thin Walls: Dani Siciliano Christina ...

End of summer 2000, as "Pink Moon" fever sweeps across the psyches of emo kids via that VW commercial, inspiring Island to press u...

A Grizzly Bear featurette in the Village Voice Since the first paragraph mentions a recording by Ed Droste's Great Aunt Marla, here is s...

Magik Markers/ Excepter August 19th East River Park After the last time , I had to give Excepter a rest, but the thought of them performing ...

"Think of it as the use of film as film, as an artist uses paint as paint." -- Dennis Hopper Does Beta like meta? Enough to mentio...

Like some sort of leitmotif in Pierre Michon's Masters and Servants , his narrators often compare paint to honey. Poured gold, pure in s...

A feature on a slew of Italian prog-rock reissues (like Franco Battiato, Lucio Battisti, and Alan Sorrenti) and the Italian that releases th...

Beta Blog celebrates Jandek's 47th record release. When I lived in Austin, there were no markers to memorialize --much less indicate-- t...