January 2011
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Watch12/28/2010
Lyrics
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Save no one but yourself
Save no one but yourself my dear Be your own savior ‘cause I cannot I cannot be anybody else’s hope… Because I have failed you and everyone but myself over and over again I’d keep hope that more than lies can keep us together I see us wholly apart raised through the dark
Of course you realize Of course you realize… I will not survive...
November 2010
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July 2010
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SSR Finally reaches 50... posts.
For a while there, it was kind of a shaky proposition, the possibility that this blog would continue.
Slowly but surely, you 20 ‘Followers’ that we have have made your way into this corner of The Internet, and our hearts. Well, we appreciate your patience while some restructuring occurred. A lot of things have been holding us back, and there still might be plenty to get in our way...
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Drunk Virago - The Only Brother (rough tracks demo...
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Fearless Leader has a Tumblr, now. →
He swears that this won’t change anything between us.
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April 2010
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Carbondale: Show tonight at The Swamp!
SSR artist and recent local Rob Jacobs will be playing, in this lineup that also includes:
Super Famicom (Saint Augustine, FL) Andrew Virga (Saint Augustine, FL) and Dr. Responsible (pseudo-local, from Champaign, IL)
Show starts at about 9, or 9:30. First 10 attendees who donate for the out-of-town acts receive a free CD with the recording of Rob Jacobs’s previous set.
March 2010
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Fearless Leader is always up for an interview.
As usual, however, his verbosity easily gave the local university newspaper reporter 9 times more information than he could ever possibly need.
Thanks go out to Dave X for trusting us to give an alternate view on his fine experimental music radio programming.
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Listen
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Day 5, at the start of heading home. It was...
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Day 4, on the last full day of being in Denton,...
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in 10 minutes from now, 5:12 a.m. CT. Turns out...
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Fearless Leader, describing the difference between...
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Fearless Leader will be out of the office for the...
As per this itinerary:
March 10th: Little Rock, AR (Rad Rad Rad House)
March 11th: Denton, TX (checking out NX35)
March 12th: Denton, TX (House show)
March 13th, 4a.m.: Denton, TX/Carbondale, IL (Possible phone-in radio appearance on WDBX 91.1 FM in Carbondale [“Listen” link is at the page.]
March 13th: Denton, TX— NX35: Asthmatic Kitty Presents Unusual Animals
March 14th:...
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NX35 →
a.k.a., “The big-deal fest that is happening a little way away from that SXSW thing that you’re all worshipping.” Go ahead, check out lineup. Yeah, EXACTLY.
January 2010
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Wait... ¿are you saying that having a Tumblarity...
Here we thought that “lower was better” for that number. Well, not really, and it’ll take as much as a week for people to be remotely certain about whether it’s 100% gone or just taking a hiatus of some sort, but we here completely support this streamlining. Now we can see all of the numbers that actually matter on the side.
Anyone who follows us and these sporadic posts...
December 2009
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November 2009
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But don't just take our word for it
The main curator’s breathless description of today:
“WEDNESDAY is our kickoff. Like the start of a roller coaster ride after being secretly slipped some psychedelics; get pumped and hold tight. 4:30 – 6:15: ALL TOGETHER NOW takes over the INTERNATIONAL LOUNGE, showcasing Photography, 2-D and more by Jason Wonnell, John McCowen, Bridget Ryan, Kaley Venable, Photogenesis and more!...
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October 2009
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Remainder of the "Bearded Tour" schedule
Even though you can see in the previous entry, that Rob didn’t grow his beard for long, there was some bizarre rationale that the “tour itself is bearded” that has been used to get around this.
Regardless of that, this tour includes Rob Jacobs, Dr. Responsible, and Withershins. They started in Massachusetts, and this is what’s left after their two Carbondale stops:
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Grinding
There have been a lot of things that have interfered with proper updates and recaps on some critical shows, and they will persist for a little while longer. However, we want to properly start up something that we’ve been intending on doing, for a while:
Gratuitous Photo Of Your Artist Thursday (GPOYAT)
At the very least, it will guarantee that there’s at least one post a week, which...
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September 2009
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In case it wasn't publicly known
This month, releases by:
Solar Shadows (x3)
Of Course You Realize… (x1)
If we just went with a printing company, the packaging would already be done. It wouldn’t be appropriate for these, though. Further details to come fairly soon.
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So, for Tumblr’s “Directory” function, they allow up to three “tags” for people to find blogs that they’d be interested in.
For now, we’re going with
records
experimental
artists
Leave a comment as to whether you agree, disagree, or would modify anything about those.
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Adam Faucett is coming to town
and this is how it was promoted (lifted again from one of the verbose Facebook Event Invites):
Adam comes in with his two-person backing band, along with two local solo sets, following a whirlwind (or low-key, depending) Labor Day weekend. Adam Faucett Joe Davolt Of Course You Realize… To simply call this “folk” would only BEGIN to scrape the compositions to be experienced. ...
Work Day for SSR
Work meaning that it’s going to proceed further along in relation to the artwork that Rob Jacobs sent in recently, including a whole lot of picture posting for our dear beleaguered digital photographer that will probably be simultaneously occurring. If all goes according to plan, we should be able to show you a little peek of it fairly soon, and definitely a picture of the man.
Bad news:...
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So some things changed
The visual artists, other than the live painters (who did a swell job for a communal effort and doing it on-the-spot, by the way!), did not end up showing for the event. Quite bizarre. Solar Shadows ended up doing a regular-length set under the main pavilion to ruin people’s days and dissolve families, doing a renewed rendition (sadly, sans guitar) of his infamous “What Makes My...
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The only reason that you would want to be in...
is to witness Fearless Leader unleash a Sonic Ambush upon the pop bands of Carbondale at Evergreen Park. Oh, that 30-minute set was ever-so-cute. I’d say more, but I want to go back and see what FL has in store for his third hour.
Not entirely incompetent
I apparently remember how to handle basic HTML and can understand instructions when given to me.
Thanks, Disqus.
Now people who don’t have Tumblr can comment.
I was going to make some crack about how we’ve entered the late 90’s, but I’d already started trying to unlearn a lot of technical skills that I had picked up a little too easily and wouldn’t have been able...
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The U.S. mail
is a wonderful thing that UPS and FedEx have yet to squash, and I hope that they never quite succeed at that.
I love mail normally, ¿but when it’s artwork from none other than upcoming SSR artist Rob Jacobs for the official version of his release? The smile was hard to contain, even in spite of various issues, real and imaginary, with the SSR performances of this weekend. That...
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Quick update
Mavis Concave’s shows went fairly well: St. Louis made FANTASTIC tour-opening money through donations (picture of the VCR that SSR snagged to come) from people grabbing stuff that Mavis was getting rid of, door money, CD sales, and shirt sales. The show ended fairly early (in that it was a weekend show that ended properly before midnight, despite a 5-act power-packed bill), even though Of...
August 2009
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Recorded primarily on August 21st, 2009, takes...
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Mavis Concave
is an exceptional friend to this label and to myself, and the mastering of the four live recordings (to be released officially early next month) owes a large debt to him. I would highly recommend him to anyone, especially if you wanted a drum machine to specifically benefit from his touch (he is very easy to work with, in terms of communicating what you want out of him).
As he is important, he...