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You may not remember this fantastic little album from 4 years ago of post-war California kef.
Buy I just added 2 solo clarinet tracks by Mesrob Takakjian cause I wound up with a home recorded acetate he made on May 7, 1951.
So check out the last 2 trax
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...
Buy I just added 2 solo clarinet tracks by Mesrob Takakjian cause I wound up with a home recorded acetate he made on May 7, 1951.
So check out the last 2 trax
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...
The Undertaker's Picnic: Armenian Kef Music in Fresno, ca. 1940s-50s, by Oscar Kevorkian & Mesrob Takakjian
21 track album
canary-records.bandcamp.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You may not remember this fantastic little album from 4 years ago of post-war California kef.
Buy I just added 2 solo clarinet tracks by Mesrob Takakjian cause I wound up with a home recorded acetate he made on May 7, 1951.
So check out the last 2 trax
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...
Buy I just added 2 solo clarinet tracks by Mesrob Takakjian cause I wound up with a home recorded acetate he made on May 7, 1951.
So check out the last 2 trax
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...
A recordings of the talk I just toured in Europe.
I haven’t listened to it yet, because in my memory, on iteration from Brussels, I nailed it.
on.soundcloud.com/7lfg9ZglMEH9...
I haven’t listened to it yet, because in my memory, on iteration from Brussels, I nailed it.
on.soundcloud.com/7lfg9ZglMEH9...
Futura Resistenza - Ian Nagoski (Canary records) Tuesday 18 November 2025 - L'Estaminet 1030 Bruxelles
This is a live recording of a talk-and-record-listening session with Ian Nagoski (Canary Records), hosted by Futura Resistenza, from Tuesday 18 November 2025 at L'Estaminet, 1030 Bruxelles.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A recordings of the talk I just toured in Europe.
I haven’t listened to it yet, because in my memory, on iteration from Brussels, I nailed it.
on.soundcloud.com/7lfg9ZglMEH9...
I haven’t listened to it yet, because in my memory, on iteration from Brussels, I nailed it.
on.soundcloud.com/7lfg9ZglMEH9...
NEW CANARY RELEASE
A century after the mass importation of a labor force from northeast India to the Dutch Caribbean colony Suriname, recordings of the emergent religious folk genre were produced in Suriname, Trinidad, and Holland.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baitha...
A century after the mass importation of a labor force from northeast India to the Dutch Caribbean colony Suriname, recordings of the emergent religious folk genre were produced in Suriname, Trinidad, and Holland.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baitha...
Baithak Gana: An Indo-Surinamese Mixtape, ca. 1968-80, by Canary Records
11 track album
canary-records.bandcamp.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
NEW CANARY RELEASE
A century after the mass importation of a labor force from northeast India to the Dutch Caribbean colony Suriname, recordings of the emergent religious folk genre were produced in Suriname, Trinidad, and Holland.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baitha...
A century after the mass importation of a labor force from northeast India to the Dutch Caribbean colony Suriname, recordings of the emergent religious folk genre were produced in Suriname, Trinidad, and Holland.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baitha...
1940s Arabic & Kurdish Recordings from Baghdad, by Canary Records
5 track album
canary-records.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
NEW CANARY ALBUM
Niece and primary disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Roshan Ara Begum (b. 1910; d. 1982) first recorded at the age of 12. After relocating to Pakistan in 1946, she may have fallen into obscurity if not for 2 superb LPs made in 1961.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/kirana...
Niece and primary disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Roshan Ara Begum (b. 1910; d. 1982) first recorded at the age of 12. After relocating to Pakistan in 1946, she may have fallen into obscurity if not for 2 superb LPs made in 1961.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/kirana...
Kirana gharana vocal art, 1961, by Roshan Ara Begum
4 track album
canary-records.bandcamp.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
NEW CANARY ALBUM
Niece and primary disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Roshan Ara Begum (b. 1910; d. 1982) first recorded at the age of 12. After relocating to Pakistan in 1946, she may have fallen into obscurity if not for 2 superb LPs made in 1961.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/kirana...
Niece and primary disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Roshan Ara Begum (b. 1910; d. 1982) first recorded at the age of 12. After relocating to Pakistan in 1946, she may have fallen into obscurity if not for 2 superb LPs made in 1961.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/kirana...
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my father had the best idea for a funeral that i think about now that dick cheney is dead; “stick a bone up my ass and let a dog drag me into the woods.” sometimes my dad is a classy guy
November 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
my father had the best idea for a funeral that i think about now that dick cheney is dead; “stick a bone up my ass and let a dog drag me into the woods.” sometimes my dad is a classy guy
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#ResistanceRoots
Pauli Murray was born on this day in 1910 in Baltimore, Md. She was a pioneering legal scholar and activist who helped shape the intellectual foundations of the civil rights and women’s rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1
Pauli Murray was born on this day in 1910 in Baltimore, Md. She was a pioneering legal scholar and activist who helped shape the intellectual foundations of the civil rights and women’s rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
#ResistanceRoots
Pauli Murray was born on this day in 1910 in Baltimore, Md. She was a pioneering legal scholar and activist who helped shape the intellectual foundations of the civil rights and women’s rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1
Pauli Murray was born on this day in 1910 in Baltimore, Md. She was a pioneering legal scholar and activist who helped shape the intellectual foundations of the civil rights and women’s rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1
Bounding through the cold, wet, dark streets of Brussels I shouted “show me all your bagpipes!!”
These in the Musical Instrument Museum are not all of them. But they’re relatively photogenic considering the museum’s lighting.
These in the Musical Instrument Museum are not all of them. But they’re relatively photogenic considering the museum’s lighting.
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Bounding through the cold, wet, dark streets of Brussels I shouted “show me all your bagpipes!!”
These in the Musical Instrument Museum are not all of them. But they’re relatively photogenic considering the museum’s lighting.
These in the Musical Instrument Museum are not all of them. But they’re relatively photogenic considering the museum’s lighting.
Faces I’m taking home with me from tour pt 2: Amsterdam
November 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Faces I’m taking home with me from tour pt 2: Amsterdam
Faces I’m taking home with me from tour, pt 1: Bucharest
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Faces I’m taking home with me from tour, pt 1: Bucharest
now traveling in Europe
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
now traveling in Europe
Headed your way Europe to hive some shows based on None of Us Know the Words
Nov 15 – The Sonic Turn conference, Bucharest (20 min talk on Laura Boulton)
theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/
Nov 16 – OCCII, Amsterdam
occii.org/events/forgo...
Nov 15 – The Sonic Turn conference, Bucharest (20 min talk on Laura Boulton)
theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/
Nov 16 – OCCII, Amsterdam
occii.org/events/forgo...
The Sonic Turn - The Attic
The Sonic Turn - A festival exploring sound, music and culture.
theatticmag.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Headed your way Europe to hive some shows based on None of Us Know the Words
Nov 15 – The Sonic Turn conference, Bucharest (20 min talk on Laura Boulton)
theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/
Nov 16 – OCCII, Amsterdam
occii.org/events/forgo...
Nov 15 – The Sonic Turn conference, Bucharest (20 min talk on Laura Boulton)
theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/
Nov 16 – OCCII, Amsterdam
occii.org/events/forgo...
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I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest.
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
None of Us Know the Words: Lessons from the Mid-20th Century Monocultural Americana
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
theatticmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest.
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
November 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.”
I like you.
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if ya read one damn critical essay this week, make it this one.
I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest.
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
None of Us Know the Words: Lessons from the Mid-20th Century Monocultural Americana
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
theatticmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
if ya read one damn critical essay this week, make it this one.
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest.
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
None of Us Know the Words: Lessons from the Mid-20th Century Monocultural Americana
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
theatticmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest.
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been.
It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week.
theatticmag.com/features/248...
If you’re going n DC and can make it, I highly recommend it.
November 20: I'll discuss Unmentionables at the George Washington University, in the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Center. With many thanks to Dr. Nabila Hijazi for this invitation!
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If you’re going n DC and can make it, I highly recommend it.
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really hoping for some better news to follow. Rat is absolutely one of the unsung heroes of the the american underground so start singing loud enough to wake him. (fuck)
www.miaminewtimes.com/music/miami-...
www.miaminewtimes.com/music/miami-...
Miami Music Legend Rat Bastard Hospitalized After Car Crash
The incident happened at 1.30 a.m. on the Florida Turnpike while the musician was moving Miami Music Archive equipment.
www.miaminewtimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
really hoping for some better news to follow. Rat is absolutely one of the unsung heroes of the the american underground so start singing loud enough to wake him. (fuck)
www.miaminewtimes.com/music/miami-...
www.miaminewtimes.com/music/miami-...
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In 1912, some workers in MA received a paycheck that was shorted by *2 hours* due to their boss's malicious compliance with a new state law.
"Short pay! All out!" yelled a group as they forced all 15K workers out of the building, disabling machines behind them.
This is how Bread and Roses began.
"Short pay! All out!" yelled a group as they forced all 15K workers out of the building, disabling machines behind them.
This is how Bread and Roses began.
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
In 1912, some workers in MA received a paycheck that was shorted by *2 hours* due to their boss's malicious compliance with a new state law.
"Short pay! All out!" yelled a group as they forced all 15K workers out of the building, disabling machines behind them.
This is how Bread and Roses began.
"Short pay! All out!" yelled a group as they forced all 15K workers out of the building, disabling machines behind them.
This is how Bread and Roses began.
In case you thought blackface minstrelsy was a mid-19th century phenomenon, I’d point you to this reference in John Tasker Howard’s 1931 book Our American Music in which he describes Johann Christain Gottlieb Graupner’s performances in Boston in 1799 following Grapner’s 1795 visit to South Carolina
October 30, 2025 at 2:55 AM
In case you thought blackface minstrelsy was a mid-19th century phenomenon, I’d point you to this reference in John Tasker Howard’s 1931 book Our American Music in which he describes Johann Christain Gottlieb Graupner’s performances in Boston in 1799 following Grapner’s 1795 visit to South Carolina
Now get Jeremy Allen White to play Richard Thompson 1980-83.
Then Townes Van Zandt 1979-83.
Then Waylon Jennings 1977-84.
Then Dee Dee Ramone 1986-92.
Let’s see what it’s all made of… c’mon. Don’t be boring.
youtu.be/Iv4OPp6EH0c?...
Then Townes Van Zandt 1979-83.
Then Waylon Jennings 1977-84.
Then Dee Dee Ramone 1986-92.
Let’s see what it’s all made of… c’mon. Don’t be boring.
youtu.be/Iv4OPp6EH0c?...
Richard Thompson: Alone, with His Guitar at Gerties Folk City, New York (1982)
YouTube video by David Reaboi
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October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Now get Jeremy Allen White to play Richard Thompson 1980-83.
Then Townes Van Zandt 1979-83.
Then Waylon Jennings 1977-84.
Then Dee Dee Ramone 1986-92.
Let’s see what it’s all made of… c’mon. Don’t be boring.
youtu.be/Iv4OPp6EH0c?...
Then Townes Van Zandt 1979-83.
Then Waylon Jennings 1977-84.
Then Dee Dee Ramone 1986-92.
Let’s see what it’s all made of… c’mon. Don’t be boring.
youtu.be/Iv4OPp6EH0c?...
Forgotten effort to use music against America’s worst (til now) wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Forgotten effort to use music against America’s worst (til now) wave of anti-immigrant sentiment.
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)
Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)