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2/8 with Steve Gunn, Zachary Cale – Matchless Bar Brooklyn, NY

2/12 Unitarian Meeting House Amherst, MA

2/13 Jack Rose Memorial Concert – Latvian Society of Philadelphia Philly, PA

2/14 Issue Project Room Brooklyn, NY

2/15 The Market Hotel Brooklyn, NY

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(photos by Gerard Malanga)

Patti Smith chronicles her 22 year friendship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe in the new memoir Just Kids. In my development as a creative person Patti Smith has been a huge influence and inspiration. These remembrances of her early days in NYC, the music and poetry scene and her romance with Mapplethorpe are sure to satisfy my nostalgia for a time that that I didn’t live through but feel so connected to…

Listen to Patti Smith on Fresh Air talking about her career and unique relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.

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The Winter ’09 issue of Fretboard Journal has a terrific interview between Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and guitarist Michael Chapman. For the past few years I’ve been producing a short documentary called Fully Qualified Survivor about Michael Chapman’s music and his life on Wrytree Farm with his wife Andru. Michael will be coming to the US to perform at the Jack Rose Memorial Concert in Philadelphia February 13th and playing some additional dates on the East Coast.

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The Jesus Lizard played a ferocious show last Tuesday night at Irving Plaza in NYC. I hadn’t seen them live since ’93 or ’94 in Boston and they were just as amazing and intense. Somehow Shanin, Shah & Zach from Ex Models and I wound up drinking beers with David Yow and Sims after the show. Good times indeed. I would LOVE to go to the New Year’s show in Chi-town… you never know…

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Last night I got to check out Dead Moon’s Fred & Tooty at Mercury Lounge in their latest oufit, Pierced Arrows. Sounded just like all Dead Moon tunes I ever loved. NYC’s own Endless Boogie opened the night with some sonic boogie rock. Good times.

Check out my pals Kate Fix and Jason Summers fascinating documentary on Dead Moon called Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story.

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(photos by Lisa Corson)

Last weekend my pals, Brooklyn psych rock band Oneida played an epic jam at the Flaming Lips curated ATP festival. The event that Onedia proposed was to recreate their recording studio Ocropolis and invite fellow musicians to come take part in an all day jam. Many musicians participated including members of Akron Family, Birds of Avalon and Boredoms. Oneida rocked hard for 10 hours straight! I recorded as much as I possibly could on two cameras (thank you Monica Hampton!). It was an exhausting but exhilarating day…

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In December of 2006 I headed to Minehead, UK to help shoot the All Tomorrow’s Parties Nightmare Before Christmas festival. My main objective was to follow friend & festival curator Thurston Moore for the documentary All Tomorrow’s Parties. It was a Detroit rock, noise music blow out. Highlights were Nurse With Wound, Negative Approach, Iggy Pop, Sonic Youth, NNCK, bowling with Awesome Color and the Wolf Eyes afterparty where the porch caved in… Keeping up with Thurston was way more difficult than I’d expected. Even though he’s 6’5″ and was wearing a fluorescent orange hat, it was a constant Where’s Waldo scenario. At some point I had him talk into the wireless mic whenever we split up so I could find him haha… The film was supposed to emulate The Year Punk Broke but since Thurston was hosting over 200 bands and was on the go, his time in front of the camera was limited. But the whole shoot was a blast and I think we got some great footage. I’m looking forward to seeing who and what made the final cut at next weeks screening at ATP in Monticello…

Thanks to producer Luke Morris of Warp FIlms, director Jonathan Caouette, All Tomorrow’s People and Thurston Moore for letting me contribute to this film.

Check out Ecstatic Peace Andrew Kesin’s rad photos of ATP 2006. I’m in a couple of pics in the “Off Stage” section.

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Above is stoner rock band Sleep’s video for Dragonaut from the album Holy Mountain. Definitely one of my all time favorite records. Check out those dreads on Matt Pike! You might recognize this tune from the film Gummo. And here you can see the album art for Sleep’s Dopesmoker and Jerusalem by my pal Arik Roper. Yeah…

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Last night  I saw Flower Travellin’ Band at the Studio in Webster Hall. They played a lot of blues, fusion type tunes that I wasn’t expecting… but I was thankful to hear Satori live. Akira “Joe” Yamanaka still had an amazing vocal range. The sun shines everyday…

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