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BMX Bandits on the BBC!
Above: one of the new BMX Bandits DBL 7" of BBC session recordings Janice Long fought Neil Tennant and Nick Heyward on the BBC Round Table celebrity record rating show for the honor of BMX Bandits and their debut single "E102". According to Duglas T. Stewart of BMX Bandits, "They both thought it was terrible but she loved it and wouldn’t give in." Janice, BBC 1 radio host and DJ played "E102" many times on her show and invited the combo down from Glasgow, Scotland to record an exclusive session in 1986, and again in 1987. Now both BMX Bandits...
The Microphones all over again.
Above: Phil Elverum, The Microphones, 1999 The Microphones all over again In July of 2019 Karl Blau conducted a week-long tour of the Salish Sea, playing shows on Lopez Island, Orcas Island, Bellingham, Vancouver, B.C., Everett, Guemes Island, ending with a show in Anacortes (located on Fidalgo Island). I took an AMTRAK train north and joined him for the first five of these shows. On Orcas Island we stayed with Phil Elverum and his daughter. Phil had just recorded a new album with Julie Doiron (released as Lost Wisdom Pt. 2 on his P.W. Elverum & Sun label), and...
Field School cassette tape!
Sundance 2022 Scene Report!
Above: The virtual reality production, "This is Not a Ceremony," by lead artist Ahnahktsipiitaa (Colin Van Loon), is an official selection of the New Frontier Program at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute and Indian Country Today) [The following Sundance 2022 Scene Report is written by Comrade Kino of the Госкино Collective.] Wuts up ax swingers?! I've been attending/ working the Sundance Film Festival for the last 13 years and 2022 is no exception...even tho there are no irl screenings this year. The Sundance Film Festival is held on the ancestral homeland of the...