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This Saturday (the 11th) Rhett Miller, erstwhile frontman of the Old 97s, will be playing a solo set at Castaways. Ever since their 1993 inception, the Old 97s were expected to do great things. After getting passed around from label to label, Elektra signed the band in 1996, hoping that alt-country would be the next […]
Japanther at the Slaughterhouse!
1 Comment Published by Nick March 30th, 2009 in Local, Music, Things to do.I grew up in Providence, RI amidst the rubble of late/great DIY venue, Fort Thunder. Like many post—industrial cities, Providence had whole neighborhoods of warehouses and factories laying fallow. Too young for the Lightening Bolt heyday of Load Records, I spent time in crumbling factories, spectator to a scene that had moved on elsewhere, but […]
Readers of this blog probably don’t need me to tell the about Glitch-Art. However, we haven’t sunk so deep into post-modernism that we don’t feel the need to describe, understand, and assign narratives to stuff that probably would resist the idea. So in that spirit, here are some thoughts I’ve been thinking about the subconscious […]
Hi, my name is Nick, and I will be writing on this blog! Also, i sometimes write stories for the Ithaca Times! I just started a couple weeks ago, so I’ve only covered Sim Redmond’s Valentines day show and the Castaways Delta Spirit show (which was awesome. It’s always great when the […]