| Welcome
to my world. Here you will find information about my former band, X-tal,
music I have done since as a solo artist and with my current bands, the
Granite Countertops, the Content Providers, the Blame, and the Experimental
Bunnies, bits of writing and other information, my punk
rock snapshot collection, and anything else I damn well please. Come
check out our music and soak up a bit of history.
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| Most of
you probably found your way here via the Punk Rock Scrapbook,
didn't you? Thanks for stopping by. Somehow, back in those frantic days
of noisy cultural revolution, I occasionally had the presence of mind to
bring a cheap little camera along and fire off a few random snapshots. There's
a lot more where this came from, which will ultimately appear in the form
of a book I am working on, to be published by Verse Chorus Press. |
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| In 1980, I managed to talk my
way into getting an interview with Mark E. Smith of the Fall. The magazine
the article was intended for folded before it could be published, but the
entire two-part conversation can now be found on the interview
page, along with a selection of others (Aislers Set, Barbara Manning,
She Mob and more) that originally appeared in Puncture,
Snackcake, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Most of these include material
that had to be cut for space in the published versions. I'll be posting
more vintage zine pieces as they turn up and the spirit moves me. |
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| October 17 marked the fifth anniversary
of our online station, Ear
Candle Radio, where we explore the outer limits and trawl the sonic
depths to bring you a selection of sounds you will not find anywhere else.
Give us a listen and cast your vote for what you hear; the results come
out every month in the form of our Top
20. Our playlist ranges from old to new, from deep obscure corners of
familiar back catalogs, to great unsung heroes past and present, to some
incredible new band we saw last Saturday. What moves us is what you hear;
the bottom line is we do this for our own joy. If you have some music that
you think fits in our mix, drop
us a line and we'll give it a fair hearing. |
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| My wife, Davis Jones, has distilled
her thoughts, her knowledge, and her passions into her own website, Noodle
Brain Productions, an ongoing project that aims for nothing less than
a shift from our current cutthroat Machiavellian economic system to Enlightened
Capitalism, where goods and services are reliable or returnable, and businesses
are held accountable for serving humanity rather than profiting off of its
destruction. The site is full of ideas, tools, philosophy and thought-provoking
declarations. Come and see. |
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