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The Pacific Ocean was a band that formed around 1996 and made music through the early 21st century, releasing one EP and two albums that remain criminally neglected and underrated. The brains, brawn and beauty (and heart and soul) of the band were Edward Baluyut (Versus) and Connie Lovatt (Containe, Alkaline), with Steve Pilgrim as …
do you have any advice / rituals / pharmaceuticals to recommend for coping with stage fright? stephin the magnetic fields: courvoisier. corin tucker: deep belly breaths, and really warming up before going on stage. stephen the real tuesday weld: you have to look at yourself in the mirror in the dressing room and say: “pull …
we had a pretty fabulous 20th-anniversary year, with 12 nights of amazing events: two nights at artisphere in arlington, va. one at maxwell’s in hoboken. three at the amazing bell house in brooklyn. one at bunk bar in portland, oregon. one at bootleg bar in l.a. one at the rickshaw stop in s.f. three in …
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chickfactor fanzine continues its all-year-long 20th-anniversary celebration with a series of concerts around the U.S. and UK. cf heads to Los Angeles on Sept 20 for an amazing show, followed by San Francisco on Sept 22 for another! And then there is our beloved London Nov 16, 17, 18. Here is the lineup below — …
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I am very excited about this — my first monograph! Designed by graphic design master LD Beghtol, with liner notes by renowned critic / NYU professor / indie nerd Sukhdev Sandhu, it is shaped like a 7″ single. There will be a few copies for sale at my Reading Frenzy photo opening on June 7, …
(This set list was appropriated from Robin Banks, the lucky owner!) So we did it. We had six nights of rock (or pop) in seven nights. two in D.C., one at Maxwell’s, and three at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY. it was total euphoria and ecstasy and emotional and all just completely great in …
INSIDE erin moran, a.k.a. a girl called eddy, tells cf all her secrets soft-rock supastars the aluminum group give gail the dirt literary superstars of america jukebox jury by daniel handler elisabeth esselink, our lady of solex, gets the cf treatment new york’s own lovely singer nina nastasia tells it like it is d.c.’s next …
INSIDE alison goldfrapp interview by peter momtchiloff & gail mimi low interview by lois trish broadcast interview by gail pipas! interview by gail sushil future pilot aka interview by gail dudley klute interview by gail the montgolfier brothers interview by gail laura cantrell interview by gail stephen duffy interview by gail emma delgados interview by …
Happy Bandcamp Friday! On August 6, our label, Enchanté, will release The Other Shore Demos, 10 unreleased recordings from THE PACIFIC OCEAN: three are completely new and seven are different (some very different) takes on songs that appeared on their third record, So Beautiful and Cheap and Warm (Teen-Beat Records). Recorded by Ian James (Flower, Cell, French) …
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