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by Carl Wilson An email group that I’m on – let’s call it the Nerd Mafia – got into exchanging favourite song titles this week. Someone offered up Don Caballero’s “A Lot Of People Tell Me I Have A Fake...
View ArticleRoscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams and George Lewis at the Guelph Jazz...
by Carl Wilson “Three men enter. Two-thirds of the audience leaves.” That was the outcome of the cage match Saturday night between three legends of Chicago’s avant-garde jazz scene and listeners at...
View ArticleTuesday Musics: “Little Birds” by Neutral Milk Hotel (Jeff Mangum)
by Carl Wilson I finally read Kim Cooper’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea book this week – the bestselling volume in the 33 1/3 series, and therefore in a dumb way a bit of a rival to mine (at least...
View ArticleOn the Genre of “In Conversation”: David Byrne and Cory Doctorow, Authors at...
(Picture swiped from Hazlitt.) by Carl Wilson There were some high points to the staged discussion this week in Toronto between musician/much-else David Byrne and author/Internet activist Cory...
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