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The Employee Interview Part XXV: Cas

Cas Nearly one year employment Electronica Wizard Miss Ess: What's the first music you remember hearing when you were a kid? Cas: That's tough, mainly because my head is kind of flooded with musical...

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It's Cheaper Used: Classic and Out-of-Print Goth & Industrial Titles in Stock...

Looking to stock back up on some dark classics? Maybe looking to try something you overlooked long ago? Well, if you’re a fan of classic Industrial or Goth, or just looking to be adventurous, we’ve got...

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SF Hip-Hop Trio BPos, Who Have an Amoeba Berkeley Instore Friday, June 11th,...

BPos "Stay Alive" from the new album The Upside (One League) With so much popular hip-hop these days veering toward the more negative, mean mugging, and macho posturing end of the rap spectrum, it is...

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Howlin’ Wolf’s 100th birthday

He was named after Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States, and as a kid Chester Arthur Burnett was nicknamed Big Foot Chester or Bull Cow as he grew to stand 6 feet, 6 inches tall...

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The Afrofunk Experience and The Berkeley World Music Festival Come To Amoeba...

Words and Pictures by Spenser Russell-Snyder On Saturday, June 5th, grooves from every part of the world came to Amoeba Music and People's Park for the Berkeley World Music Festival! Amoeba was...

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Hip-Hop Rap Up - Week Ending 06:11:10: The King of Crunk, Lil Jon, is Back...

Amoeba Music Hollywood Weekly Hip-Hop Top Five Chart: 06:11:10 1) Lil Jon Crunk Rock (Lil Jon/Universal Republic) 2) Yukmouth Free At Last (Smoke-A-Lot) 3) Plies Goon Affiliated (Atlantic/Slip N'...

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June 10, 2010: Splice

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Fancy Dancers

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Remembering Hazel Scott on her 90th birthday

This past week would have been Hazel Scott’s 90th birthday. She’s probably not as well known today as she was in her lifetime, which is a shame, because Hazel Scott was not only a brilliant and...

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Lost Their Way? "The End" 2

Continuing ... Is not the ultimate American paranoiac fantasy that of an individual living in a small idyllic Californian city, a consumerist paradise, who suddenly starts to suspect that the world he...

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Charanjit Singh- 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat Reviewed by Gomez Comes Alive

There has been much talk about 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat! People have been debating whether Charanjit Singh’s 1982 release predated Acid House or was influenced by it. There was also talk that perhaps...

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June 13, 2010: Get Him To The Greek

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(In which we wish you were here.)

  Yes, please! It’s an unfortunate reality that not everyone in the Universe can know Jaime Lefcovich. Those of us who do have the pleasure miss her awfully, as she has escaped the Land of the Free and...

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June 14, 2010: Marmaduke

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Crispian St. Peters 1939 - 2010

I’ve always had a soft spot for Crispian St. Peters, the 1960’s English pop star with a lilting, lyrical, tenor voice who passed away last week at the age of 71.   Born Robin Peter Smith in Swanley,...

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Junk Science's Latest, A Miraculous Kind of Machine, is the Brooklyn Hip-Hop...

Junk Science "Really, Man" video directed by John Ta (2010) Everything about talented Brooklyn hip-hop duo Junk Science, who very recently released their third album A Miraculous Kind Of Machine,...

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June 15 - New Electronic/ Dance CD Releases

Wolfgang Voigt Freiland Klaviermusik Kompakt Wolfgang Voigt returns to stranj for his left-of-center Kompakt label offshoot, Profan. As GAS, Voigt composed ethereal, blue-hued, deep-forest...

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Window Scenes

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Happy Dragon Boat Festival Day

At a minute past midnight last night/early this morning (June 16th) in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities with large Chinese and other East Asian & Southeast Asian...

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Celebrating Kyrgyz Culture Amidst Violence

Although I’ve never been to Kyrgyzstan I’ve long wanted to go there. I initially became interested in the Central Asian region due primarily to its sheer obscurity relative to the rest of the...

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The Cure Celebrate 20 Years of Disintegration

“[On Disintegration] they thought I was being 'willfully obscure', which was an actual quote from the letter [received from the band’s label at the time, Elektra]. Ever since then I’ve realized that...

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Rest In P, Garry Shider: P-Funk All Stars Musical Director Dies from Cancer...

Garry "Diaperman" Shider, musician and band leader of George Clinton's P-Funk All Stars who earned his nickname for his habit of wearing diapers onstage, died yesterday following complications arising...

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June 16, 2010: The Karate Kid

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June 17 - 24 at the New Beverly!

This Week At The New Beverly Our full schedule is available online: www.newbevcinema.com/calendar.cfm Thursday June 17 Two by Chan-wook Park Oldboy 2003, South Korea, 120 minutes...

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out this week 6/1 & 6/8...ariel pink...the cure...wild nothing...

Every once in while an album comes along that just absolutely blows your mind. It seems to be happening more often than not this year! I am talking about the kind of album that you just can't stop...

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Aux Catacombes: Documenting Art in the Belly of Paris

If it can be said that the freshest of the fresh artistic creations bubble up from "underground," then it should come as no surprise that the vast network of tunnels that comprise the coiled entrails...

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Hip-Hop Rap Up - Week Ending 06:18:10: Quest Fest, Amp Live, Bored Stiff, The...

Amoeba Music San Francisco Weekly Hip-Hop Top Five Chart: 06:18:10 1) Chali 2na Fishmarket Part 2 (Decon Records) 2) Amp Live Murder at the Discotech (Child's Play Records/OM) 3) Drake Thank Me Later...

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South(ern) Africa's Indigenous People and their Culture Presented in Music...

Dusty Bushmen toddlers I'm not a big spectator of sports (or player of them, for that matter) but it seems that events like The World Cup and The Olympics are often used to spotlight various aspects...

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Art of the 12 Inch Die Cut #3

Another round of 12" die cut sleeves. Please check out my previous galleries here and here.

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Vinyl Confidential, 4.2 – The Damned Odd Order of Oblong Boxes

“When I got home I mixed a tall stiff one and stood on my balcony, leaned heavy against the railing, looking over and down five stories. Standing, sipping, I listened to the groundswell of cars and...

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Summer Solstice 2010

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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, or Post-Human, All Too Post-Human

The eyes of Joan Rivers. I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process...

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Father's Day (contains spoilers)

It's a Hallmark card not yet writ Continue reading...

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Saluting Old School San Francisco Rap Group I.M.P.'s Back in the Days

Exactly 17 years ago San Francisco’s Lakeview district rap crew I.M.P. (Ill Mannered Posse) released their long overdue official debut album Back in the Days on In-A-Minute Records. Three years later,...

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June 21, 2010: Cielito Lindo

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New Electronic 12" releases at Amoeba LA- Holger Czukay, Conforce, A Made Up...

Holger Czukay Let’s Get Cool Claremont 56 CAN's HOLGER CZUKAY releases this 2 track 10" with tracks based on "COOL IN THE POOL," recorded in his home studio in 1979. Quirky with a touch of free jazz...

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June 23, 2010: The A-Team

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What Do Paul McCartney, Game, and Justin Bieber Have In Common? They've All...

Paul McCartney, Justin Bieber, and Game each share the experience of having been the targets of fake death hoaxes. Early this Monday morning rumors began circulating on various websites that rap star...

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out this week 6/15 and 6/22...showgirls...the foals...devo...the...

I wish I could tell you exactly how many times I have seen the movie Showgirls. I would guess it has topped 100 times, making it the movie that I have watched more than any other! I am not sure this...

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On this One Year Anniversary of his Death, All Things Are Michael Jackson...

Today -- the one year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death -- there is no shortage of scheduled tributes to the King of Pop, especially on TV, with ABC, NBC, CNN, VH1, MTV, BET, E!, Fuse, and even...

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This Week At The New Bev: Vampire-Con, Richard Fleischer, Fiddler on the...

This Week At The New Beverly Our full schedule is available online: www.newbevcinema.com/calendar.cfm Friday, June 25 Vampire-Con Film Fest For more information, please visit www.vampire-con.com...

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Trash Humpers 7" Vinyl & CD Soundtrack

Untitled Document Trash Humpers - 45 Trash Humpers - CD Today, Amoeba Music Hollywood received a batch of Trash Humpers soundtracks. If you've seen the film, you'd agree that Harmony Korine nailed...

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Hip-Hop Rap Up - Week Ending 06:25:10: Eminem, Jay-Z, The Roots, QuestFest,...

Amoeba Music Hollywood Weekly Hip-Hop Top Five Chart: 06:25:10 1) Eminem Recovery (Aftermath, Interscope, Shady) 2) The Roots How I Got Over (Def Jam) 3) Drake Thank Me Later (Cash Money Records) 4)...

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Mannequins

Mannequins, parts of mannequins & women who look like mannequins.

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Hip-Hop History: 10 Dates that Helped Define Hip Hop in 1996

There were numerous hip hop albums released in the year 1996, countless rap concerts & related events, plus many news worthy incidents in the genre that occurred. Here are just ten hip hop...

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NYC Summer 2010 Pt. II - SummerStage Brings New York City's Parks to Life...

Considering hip-hop got its start during the 1970's in block parties and in various parks in the Bronx, it is more than fitting that the man credited with creating the genre, Jamaican transplant DJ...

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Sandy Babes: The Sandwitches play Duck Duck Goose!

  There are many things to love about The Sandwitches and their latest release, the Duck Duck Goose! EP (on Empty Cellar/Secret Seven Records), serves as further proof that these ladies are not only...

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Current 93 Celebrates Its 28th Year with a New Album and Three Box Sets

Current 93 began a new revitalized era with the release of last year’s quite exceptional Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain. The long running project helmed by the forever impish David Tibet introduced...

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Show me the Mo Movies!!! - Missouri in Film and TV

Some folk that know me know I have to see dang near err movie that's filmed in, set in or tied to Missouri (whurr I grew up). With the Bourne Trilogy, those ties were somewhat tenuous... Badass Jason...

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California Fool's Gold -- Orange County Here We Come...

 A hand drawn and hand painted map of Orange County from Pendersleigh & Sons OK, since the Los Angeles neighborhoods (click here to vote) and Los Angeles County communities (click here to vote)...

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