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  Happy Jonestown Day - Pass the Kool Aid, Por Favor

  11.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre at the Peoples Temple community in Guyana, the second largest death en masse of American civilians from non-natural disaster origins (the first being niner eleven), claiming 909 very loyal lives. Jonestown wasn’t just a bizarre and significant historical event, but also was a direct influence or [...]

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  Adventures in Shortwave, Part 2

  11.10.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Awesome! Irdial and the Internet Archive now have this convenient embedded widget (provided below) that allows you to play just about the entire set of The Conet Project. If you’re not hip to the Conet Project, it is an expansive collection of mysterious number stations broadcasts.  Click the “next” button to browse through the various [...]

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  Happy Halloween! Have Some Way Weird Recordings

  10.31.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I love Halloween. I was bummed that I didn’t get to celebrate it as festively as I wanted to this year.  I was really interested in executing this awesome jack-o-latern idea (it involved the carving of a backwards B, that’s all I’m gonna say).  But alas, I’ve got some time-consuming things going on right now [...]

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  West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band Has You Covered

  10.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Like drugs and lovers, ’60s psych pop groups were all about sharing songs. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band delighted in celebrating the work of their peers with a variety of covers that appeared on Volume One. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, the more tuneful and pop-oriented response to Andy Warhol’s and the VU’s [...]

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  Creation Records, For the Win

  09.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A fun thought experiment I like to engage in with friends, neighbors, and peers concerns what particular public figures are doing right now, at this moment. Last week on FaCeBoOk, I played “What is Sarah Palin Doing Right Now?” with everyone. Many of my cohorts left decidedly excellent responses - everything from cleaning muskets, to [...]

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  First, Black Holes - Now, The Antichrist! Egad!

  09.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  We’re still here… supposedly. I don’t mean that in an existential way, simply that the first CERN experiment went well and Earth was not black-hole-swallowed. There will be more though, so let’s hope everyone at CERN brings their A-game, because I’m totally not in the mood to die. The Decibel Tolls hasn’t even [...]

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  Waxin’ Historical

  09.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Let’s talk for a bit…

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  A Pox on Roger Waters

  09.10.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  UPDATE 9.15.08: I realize a lot of people will stumble upon this article as per Rick Wright’s recent passing. Please understand that this post, evidenced by the timestamp, was written a week prior. The Decibel Tolls offers nothing but condolensces to Wright’s family and friends. The primary purpose of this article was [...]

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  A Death in the Family - The Dame Music Hall

  08.25.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  As people who know me personally are aware, the music venue where I worked (booking and promoting) for 2.5 years was torn down in my old stomping ground of Lexington, Ky. It feels like a death in the family. Not only did I basically live there for that period of time (I had [...]

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  What’s More Psychedelic Than Animatronic Animals?

  08.03.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Aaron Fechter has an awesome job. Fechter was one of the original engineers/designers of Rock-afire Explosion, designed by Creative Engineering, Inc. These were the folks responsible for those mighty, mechanical, probably bionic animatronic stage animals that performed for such fine dinner theater establishments as Chuck-E-Cheese and Showbiz Pizza. I was all about [...]