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Sleepy Doug Shaw - 360 Record Shop, Red Hook, Brooklyn, March 8, 2024 / Tubby's, Kingston, New York, January 14, 2024 / WFMU Frow Show Tribute

Amidst the sadness of 2026, the recent, much-too-soon passing of Doug Shaw has to be one of the saddest. I didn't know him, but the overwhelming outpouring of love for the London-born/NYC-based musician over the past week or so tells me the world is a lesser place without him.

An underground mainstay, Shaw played with White Magic and Gang Gang Dance, but I only really became aware of him sometime this decade when my friend Michael Klausman recommended the Bandcamp-only live release Sleepy at Tubby's, which completely blew me away. I remember listening at first and thinking: "Man, this guy is as good as John Martyn." And then I remember listening again and thinking: "Man, this guy is better than John Martyn!" Dazzling guitar work, beautiful vocals, an effortlessly cool vibe. An incredible talent.

Which made it all the weirder that Shaw didn't really have an actual album that properly showcased that talent. His stuff was spread across various digital platforms in a semi-careless fashion. Fair enough — there was something effortlessly cool about that, too, a refusal to play the game by anyone else's rules. Still, his legend seemed to be growing; there was a collab LP last year with Animal Collective's Geologist, as well as a lengthy feature by Andy Cush in Hearing Things.

news - 2021.11.02

12月15日発売 Damon and Naomi with Kurihara /  A SKY RECORDより 「 Midnight」のMV公開！

最新MVはMagic MakersのElisa Ambrogioが監督している。

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One of the aftermaths of the Chilean coup d'état in 11.9.1973 was the gathering and killing of people with opposite political views.

Victor Jara (born 28.9.1932) was one of the many thousand people imprisoned and tortured at Estadio Chile in Santiago.

He was a teacher, a theater director, a poet, and probably most known as a singer songwriter and a communist. Those being the reasons why the new far right regiment murdered him brutally at the stadium where he was held captive 16th of September in 1973.

Victor was a voice of revolution along with others, and his voice got silenced.

phil ochs died 50 years ago today, april 9th, 1976. he was 35 years old.

Daniel's vision (Daniel 7:1–8) of four beasts rising from the sea — a winged lion, a bear, a winged leopard, and a horned monster — interpreted as prophecy about historical empires and the nations of 19th century Europe.

40 Future Wonders of Scripture Prophecy. 1903 ed.