MY NAME IS J NEO MARVIN, AND THIS IS WHAT I DO.
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THE BLAME have unleashed our first EP, THE FULL DISCLOSURE PRINCIPLE, in the form of a five-song digital release. Check out Ear Candle's new Tunecore page for this and many more upcoming goodies. The centerpiece of the EP is our cover of Leonard Cohen's wry declaration, "Democracy", which has received a startling amount of hits on the Ear Candle website. Davis Jones is featured on her first-ever composition, the plaintive "Wagons And Boys", as well as the noisy workplace psychodrama "Worker Bee". J Neo Marvin contributes the righteous cowbell-rock anthem "Unexpected Impact", and the duo come together sweetly on their collaboration, "Outside The Blue Room".

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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 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, soak up a bit of history, and if you have anything to say that has nothing to do with online poker, Viagra, etc. sign the guestbook!

Click here to see our wedding.
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.
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.
October 17 marks the third 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.
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.
The Content Providers cover of the Magnetic Fields'"Crazy For You But Not That Crazy" is now available on an online Magnetic Fields tribute compilation! Click here to sample a wide variety of artists putting their own stamp on the Stephin Merritt catalog.