The 21st release from Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Race Riot Suite, is set for release on 8/30 via Kinnara Records/Royal Potato Family. The record is a long-form conceptual piece that tells the tragic story of the 1921 Tulsa race riot. Listen to a track below. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: "Grandfa
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No CommentsAfter previously working with Season of Mist, Italian industrial-black-metal band Aborym recently signed a deal with Agonia Records. The band's forthcoming album, its sixth overall, will be released in 2012. "If you think Psychogrotesque was crazy, this next one is going to fuck your synapses from
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No CommentsScott Morrow is ALARM’s music editor. Patrick Hajduch is a very important lawyer. Each week they debate the merits of a different album. Ford & Lopatin: Channel Pressure (Software / Mexican Summer, 6/7/11) Ford & Lopatin: "World of Regret" Hajduch: Ford & Lopatin (formerly Games) i
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No CommentsAssemble Head in Sunburst Sound: When Sweet Sleep Returned (Tee Pee, 4/7/09) Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound: "By the Rippling Green" No matter how progressive San Francisco may be, there are a few things about the City by the Bay that will never change. For one, you can always count on being env
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No CommentsI am late getting this column together this week. It’s usually ready roll by noon on Wednesday, and here it is pushing 6:00 p.m. I have a good excuse though. As you may know, I moved to Jamestown, RI back in January. Once I got here, one of the first things I did was to get in touch with the l
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No CommentsFamiliarity is, as they tend to say, the breeder of contempt which makes life much harder for the career of a part-time professional parodist. And so it is double-trouble for Weird Al Yankovic. His latest, Alpocalypse, has to work with songs you know, at least part of the time. While you want to app
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No CommentsIn one of the strangest and blandest fads of all time, Aussiemania hit hard in the 1980s. In that super-conservative decade, Australians were suddenly seen as exotic, but not too exotic in that they spoke the same language as us and looked like British people, only happier, because they had sunshine
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No CommentsTroy McClure made the industrial film a legend. In his brief life, Troy narrated such films as “Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly” and “Meat and You: Partners in Freedom”. He also did the more tourist-friendly “Welcome to Springfield Airport” and the introductory v
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No CommentsI met Clarence Clemons earlier this year at Sun Life Stadium, hours prior to the first game of the Florida Marlins’ season. Beforehand, I remember asking my father about the legendary saxophone player and watching his eyes widen immediately; he’d been a Clemons fan since the Bruce Spr
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No CommentsIt’s hard to believe it’s been just over two years since Michael Jackson died. I knew I wanted to do something special to honor the King of Pop on Popdose – something that would capture the admiration and sense of loss that comes with being a fan of Jackson, as well as the warmth a
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