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Jack Rabid

Jack Rabid's Big Takeover

Guest Review: Maps and Atlases and mewithoutYou live / / Listen to Big Takeover on Breakthruradio.com! / Don't Forget the New Issue!

NEW YORK – Aug 7

The loss of long-time member and impressive guitarist Christopher Kleinberg has not slowed mewithoutYou down at all. In attempts to end the show on time, they simply pulled their shirts over their faces while the crowd screamed for one more song. They finished with the highly energetic “January 1979” and ended with a new one called “God, God, God.” / Just a reminder, too, if you haven’t listened in yet, my radio show for BreakthruRadio.com successfully launched, and again, here’s a good chance to hear a good bit of what I/we have been writing about in our issues these last 28 years.



The Power of Music Compels You!

Greg Bartalos

Love - Forever Changes (Rhino)

BROOKLYN – Jun 8

With the recent 2-CD reissue of Forever Changes the album continues to astound four decades on.

Sound Fix

Steve Holtje

The Heaters - The Great Lost Heaters Album (Salter)

BROOKLYN – Jul 30

Using a combination of the original session tapes, demos, and newly recorded parts, near the end of last year the band put out a version conforming to their own sound rather than their producers’. Three decades on, the classic underneath the bad production has been revealed, proving that the excitement they generated in their home base of Los Angeles was not mere hype.

Wax-Covered Earplugs

Tim Bugbee

Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Dairies/Jnana)

BOSTON – Aug 3

Steven Stapleton will cure you, and the method involves mutated jazz beats and a petrol-sodden rag.

Downloader Frolics

Chuck Foster

Thriving on Teenage Nostalgia with a Sega Emulator

NEW YORK – Jul 27

A recent trip to LA rekindled my love of Sega games. Now I’m playing those games on my PC.

File Under: Alt. City

Chris Stroffolino

Does Barack Obama Have Anything To Do With The State Of The U.S. Music Biz?

OAKLAND – Jun 9

So the baby boomers are trying to put it into the 1960s paradigm map again. BEWARE THESE BABY BOOMERS!! This is my shtick. Yeah, we need the baby boomers, and Hillary Clinton supporters. They still have a huge demographic—but it’s been about them them them for so long—-I think that might explain some of the pent up resentment, or sheer catharsis of “Generation X-ish” (a generation that never really had the demographic numbers by itself), and the under 30 *MARK RISTAINO” (MUSIC FOR AMERICA) crowd—-who, now, finally had a way to speak, and be heard, not just by the older people, but BY EACH OTHER.

JapaneseGod JesusRobot

Matthew Berlyant

The Effigies with EDP - Maxwells (Hoboken, NJ) - Saturday, July 26, 2008

PHILADELPHIA – Aug 6

I don’t want to have to wait another 20 years to see them again!

The Business of Art

John R. Davidson

The Music Industry's Most Amusing Myth: It Can't Compete With Free

ATLANTA – Nov 26

If the industry reduces their failure down to pricing competition, then they will always lose to the lowest price.

Shadowtime

Kristen Sollee

Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music (Wierd)

NEW YORK – Jun 24

The set focuses on analogue electronic music with the requirement that it be synthetic yet organic and created through a symbiotic relationship between man and machine.

Static From My Heart

Dave Heaton

Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk)

PHILADELPHIA – Apr 13

In a sense Lucky is an album of love songs. But refreshingly these are love songs that aren’t narrow in scope and don’t rely on clichés.

Children Must Have Rock n Roll

Rachel Pesin

The Kooks - EMI Rooftop/Terminal 5 (New York) - Wednesday, June 11, 2008

NEW YORK – Jun 15

On Wednesday, June 11, I had a Kooks-filled day with two Kooks shows.

Pop Overdose

Suzanne Baran

The Savages (R)

LOS ANGELES – Mar 26

One of the best films of 2007 is an underrated gem called The Savages.