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This is the cover of my latest chapbook. Considering that Beta Blog was initiated earlier this year with a chapbook of poems from Texas , th...

From year-end roundups: Tim Hecker interview at eMusic Oneida interview at Paper Thin Walls

Riff on "Popozão" at Riff Market Various - Da Capo Best of Music Writing 2006 Various - The World is Gone Clipse - Hell Hath No Fu...

A saucerful of secrets? *** The Blue Velvet Blend probably goes great with homemade cherry pie. Even the other kind . *** The last three mov...

David Lynch brews up some hot new disco polo tracks. It's a style appropriated by everyone from Ghostface to Iñárritu: speak in non-seq...

Joanna Newsom - Ys Jack Nitzsche - Hard Workin' Man: The Jack Nitzsche Story Vol.2 Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet ...and if you...

Aside from a horrendous Devendra warble tacked onto an otherwise serviceable take of "Katie Cruel" and a song that messes with Tex...

I moved to New York presumably to get closer to fine art and other cultural pleasures, to see performances of living legends like Steve Reic...

White Magic feature in the Village Voice Hot Chip feature in the Stranger Bert Jansch review in The Village Voice Sandy Bull review in Paste...

I went to the Zune launch party and all I got was this free mp3 player. Tuesday night drugged me out of the cave to two divergent yet queerl...

This week's tree-grinding edition of The Onion features my first foodist gig, covering The Vendys. It's some 40+ pages in, after jo...

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...