tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33462891034265705952024-03-04T23:39:47.898-05:00BRICKBAT BOOKSnew and used books and records in Queen Village, Philadelphia.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-80398556535126761002023-12-08T11:25:00.001-05:002023-12-08T19:01:32.519-05:00eGift Cards available!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-26100791778550626392022-05-24T15:49:00.001-04:002022-05-24T16:30:49.059-04:00Sell Us Your Books!<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><span>We buy books: Everything from Artist's Monographs to Pulp Fiction; Children's Books to Poetry.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here are some guidelines for what we
accept:</span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Literature / Fiction</b> paperbacks
and hardbacks </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Genre Fiction</b> -- science
fiction, mysteries, detective fiction, spy thrillers, pulp</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Poetry</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Non-fiction</b> -- Essays,
Philosophy, Spirituality, Religion, History, Popular Science, Music,
Film </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Children's Books </b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Art books</b> -- especially Modern &
Contemporary Artists, Photographers, and Architects</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Comics / Graphic Novels</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cookbooks</b></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rare or unusual books/ephemera</b></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: small;"></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">
Items must be in very good condition
(no underlining or writing in book, no torn pages, no breakage or
damage on cover)</span></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">We do NOT carry Bestsellers, Fantasy
series, Textbooks, or Self-Help titles. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please note: Our shop is quite small, and we are therefore rather selective in our book purchases</b>. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">We do <u>not</u> purchase full collections without evaluation of the content, and, though some of our merchandise may be considered rare, we do <u>not</u> specialize in rare books or first editions. <br /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Brickbat Books</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">709 South 4th Street</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(between Bainbridge & Monroe Sts)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Philadelphia, PA 19147</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="mailto:brickbatbooks@gmail.com">brickbatbooks@gmail.com</a></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Contact us by Phone</b>:</span>
<span style="font-size: large;">215-592-1207</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-78505629373747284662022-04-30T18:16:00.001-04:002022-05-24T16:29:57.610-04:00Store Hours (as of September 2021)<p> We've expanded our hours! Stop in and see us Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday til 5, and Thursday, Friday, Saturday til 7. As ever, we are closed on Mondays. See ya soon! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFb5QTatplmbvpbFgK1fIFpfSjH6erU0OdBGst5uB69SWSdMN7udUVwRFX6CGMjUlv9o91zXet8d36ReDBGhSTFKzYQRm25ccOpPO_wzaF8ZSDGQbDLepn_SpsZiyLNI6oiI_LQGF_QQ/s2048/PXL_20210829_175553203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjel8eQ6GUWQZald8OqjXx6ljxk_lPWbffo8NbkKXJ4qtiKERbvHcOMGmBLS6gVcd3M-HtksUuZ-4PiOF0Hm7tv50iaDBjVPsb_IGxYQXsrT6lKqPelXMMIwt1ZOiWClE5sa3uPAL07r9k/s2048/PXL_20210831_201120330.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1284" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjel8eQ6GUWQZald8OqjXx6ljxk_lPWbffo8NbkKXJ4qtiKERbvHcOMGmBLS6gVcd3M-HtksUuZ-4PiOF0Hm7tv50iaDBjVPsb_IGxYQXsrT6lKqPelXMMIwt1ZOiWClE5sa3uPAL07r9k/w402-h640/PXL_20210831_201120330.jpg" width="402" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFb5QTatplmbvpbFgK1fIFpfSjH6erU0OdBGst5uB69SWSdMN7udUVwRFX6CGMjUlv9o91zXet8d36ReDBGhSTFKzYQRm25ccOpPO_wzaF8ZSDGQbDLepn_SpsZiyLNI6oiI_LQGF_QQ/w360-h640/PXL_20210829_175553203.jpg" width="360" /></div></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-22190339256796636552022-03-26T18:45:00.006-04:002022-05-24T16:34:37.561-04:00Event: April 1, 2022 -- Samara Lubelski / Ken Brenninger<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhQmh6jmLPSkFxxNEvmcawF4--narQuweC4ZwXFXdv11V6UDh0BBqwd9nMsXg5jxapMgA2ubsgvvMvsqLpZCjsaUlQhD4CtnKrUC9y0VavsZ_opm8L4VJaRTZuGMtnKwaZR5ijs4O127tCnhPxjQvhNgV5XPkAciiUpndhWQX7yCBNW1ZBio0VAIY/s3685/59B3C076-137E-48AA-8A02-B8877EF5A0AE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3685" data-original-width="2837" height="465" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhQmh6jmLPSkFxxNEvmcawF4--narQuweC4ZwXFXdv11V6UDh0BBqwd9nMsXg5jxapMgA2ubsgvvMvsqLpZCjsaUlQhD4CtnKrUC9y0VavsZ_opm8L4VJaRTZuGMtnKwaZR5ijs4O127tCnhPxjQvhNgV5XPkAciiUpndhWQX7yCBNW1ZBio0VAIY/w358-h465/59B3C076-137E-48AA-8A02-B8877EF5A0AE.jpeg" width="358" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Open Mouth Records Presents:<br />Samara Lubelski & Ken Brenninger</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Friday, April 1st, 2022</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>We are very pleased to announce the triumphant return of Bill Nace's Open Mouth Records Music Series at Brickbat! <br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>
<a href="https://www.samaralubelski.com/home.html" target="_blank">Samara Lubelski</a></b> is a singer, songwriter, multi
instrumentalist (violinist, guitarist and bassist) improviser and
engineer. She has been a member of numerous bands, including Of a Mesh,
The Salmon Skin, Pacer, The Sonora Pine, Hall of Fame, The Tower
Recordings, Metal Mountains and Chelsea Light Moving.
Lubelski is a prolific guest musician, performing (predominantly on
violin and occasionally on bass) on dozens of recordings by artists such
as The Fiery Furnaces, White Magic, Thurston Moore, God Is My Co-Pilot,
Jackie-O Motherfucker, Sightings and MV & EE. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p><b>Ken Brenninger</b> is a fierce guitar slinger who spent time in bands
Fully Glazed and Storks, before joining up with Jesse Sheppard from
Elkhorn and Dave Siebert from Jackie O Motherfucker to form the sludgy
acid hurricane that is <a href="https://bluesambush.bandcamp.com" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Blues Ambush</a>. Brenninger also works at the famed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Philadelphia-Record-Exchange-230776837069210/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Philadelphia Record Exchange</a>!</p><p>$10 suggested <br />byo drinks & snax<br />doors at 7, music at 8
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March 24th & 25th, 2022<p>We are very pleased to be hosting several literary readings at Brickbat in conjunction with this year's <a href="https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/" target="_blank">AWP Conference</a>! </p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thursday, 03/24, 7:00pm: Daisy Fried / Glorious Piner</b></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitklOXsDbY3CmovsqX9ToQx261j1iF2ZFtAAbrq-z8vUF7Q1Gvinw1oQRoMpQ0bhjc4p4mPvCXZiImlj3fAuRzmSF9g_9-NX-eDN0oBesX1TFLp4wC094QJi-7TqScK4-T8FU2bbr2LlhAIOsQnFlDlV77N0EhLYQZyLjORVj-PQQdnSdBwwylh4dV=s1794" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="1196" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitklOXsDbY3CmovsqX9ToQx261j1iF2ZFtAAbrq-z8vUF7Q1Gvinw1oQRoMpQ0bhjc4p4mPvCXZiImlj3fAuRzmSF9g_9-NX-eDN0oBesX1TFLp4wC094QJi-7TqScK4-T8FU2bbr2LlhAIOsQnFlDlV77N0EhLYQZyLjORVj-PQQdnSdBwwylh4dV=w266-h400" width="266" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> <br /></b></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Friday, 03/25, 5:00pm: <br /></b></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dorothy Chan / </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Benjamin Gucciardi / </b><b>I.S. Jones / </b><b>Amanda Moore</b></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSz_ve5TPZdW-qif6TjPHh3s6jBsbhu5_3hkqI2IeQ4QfExGx2jLP2ABdAHWZUdMLMoRd5r0dImsqiL_jCN4aW_ijMvGwQAGlQWA71QdycbYFQN3TAtLPeM_OJ2g1Mzh48Hjr165V_L-Ph4XZpE2id15UVjXwiv4JZSQQq25u_2fKiPv4ycMbMhK5G=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSz_ve5TPZdW-qif6TjPHh3s6jBsbhu5_3hkqI2IeQ4QfExGx2jLP2ABdAHWZUdMLMoRd5r0dImsqiL_jCN4aW_ijMvGwQAGlQWA71QdycbYFQN3TAtLPeM_OJ2g1Mzh48Hjr165V_L-Ph4XZpE2id15UVjXwiv4JZSQQq25u_2fKiPv4ycMbMhK5G=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Friday, 03/25, 7:00pm: </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Keith LLC x Tabloid Press</span><br /></span></b></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix5CrYnIMtCH0NIeeuaeFOTehNy3AbpTwfHpNtlTV6crQP5Pfd6gMyhWm7OU9JJObbU1AUQdGVUckL-CAHtnuGjtLWWDIlCAxHzzKxhUQbP-jVJzA4VKkBpkePEoMnzRvVXI2h6Yi2DNF0mfs4dWM57VTdqUTSzqO5YigZEHSwVGsGfSZRrMsvFYRG=s995" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="864" height="531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix5CrYnIMtCH0NIeeuaeFOTehNy3AbpTwfHpNtlTV6crQP5Pfd6gMyhWm7OU9JJObbU1AUQdGVUckL-CAHtnuGjtLWWDIlCAxHzzKxhUQbP-jVJzA4VKkBpkePEoMnzRvVXI2h6Yi2DNF0mfs4dWM57VTdqUTSzqO5YigZEHSwVGsGfSZRrMsvFYRG=w462-h531" width="462" /></a></div><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span><a name='more'></a><!--more--></span> </b></span></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thursday, March 24th, 7:00pm</b></span></h1><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Daisy Fried book release / Glorious Piner <br /></b></span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitklOXsDbY3CmovsqX9ToQx261j1iF2ZFtAAbrq-z8vUF7Q1Gvinw1oQRoMpQ0bhjc4p4mPvCXZiImlj3fAuRzmSF9g_9-NX-eDN0oBesX1TFLp4wC094QJi-7TqScK4-T8FU2bbr2LlhAIOsQnFlDlV77N0EhLYQZyLjORVj-PQQdnSdBwwylh4dV=s1794" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="1196" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitklOXsDbY3CmovsqX9ToQx261j1iF2ZFtAAbrq-z8vUF7Q1Gvinw1oQRoMpQ0bhjc4p4mPvCXZiImlj3fAuRzmSF9g_9-NX-eDN0oBesX1TFLp4wC094QJi-7TqScK4-T8FU2bbr2LlhAIOsQnFlDlV77N0EhLYQZyLjORVj-PQQdnSdBwwylh4dV=s320" width="213" /></a></div><b>Daisy Fried <i>The Year the City Emptied</i>: <i>After Baudelaire</i></b><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Daisy Fried</b> will be introducing her fourth book, <i>The Year the City Emptied: After Baudelaire. </i>She is the author of three other books of poetry: <i>Women’s Poetry: Poems and Advice</i>, <i>My Brother is Getting Arrested Again</i> and <i>She Didn’t Mean to Do It</i>,<i> </i>all
from the Pitt Poetry Series. She has also been awarded Guggenheim,
Hodder and Pew fellowships. Her recent poems have been published, or are
forthcoming, in American Poetry Review, At Length, Paris Review, The
Nation, PN Review, Subtropics, Threepenny Review and Zocalo. She is<i> </i>a poetry critic, poetry editor for the journal <i>Scoundrel Time </i>and a member of the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. She lives in Philadelphia. </p><p><b>Glorious Piner</b> has two works published in <i>Queerbook</i>, the
inaugural anthology released by the first LGBTQ+ bookstore in the
country, Giovanni's Room’s attendant press. You can find more of
Glorious’ work in The American Poetry Review, The Florida Review,
Conduit Magazine, the Scoundrel Time Magazine and more. Glorious hosts a
podcast, called The Writer’s Workshop Cafè, on sustaining and financing
the practice of creative writing. Glorious is currently in the MFA program at the University of Maryland with a
focus on poetry. She teaches poetry at the University of Maryland.</p><!--more--><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Friday, March 25th, 5:00pm</b></span></h1><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Dorothy Chan / </b></span><b>Benjamin Gucciardi / </b><b>I.S. Jones / </b><b>Amanda Moore</b></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSz_ve5TPZdW-qif6TjPHh3s6jBsbhu5_3hkqI2IeQ4QfExGx2jLP2ABdAHWZUdMLMoRd5r0dImsqiL_jCN4aW_ijMvGwQAGlQWA71QdycbYFQN3TAtLPeM_OJ2g1Mzh48Hjr165V_L-Ph4XZpE2id15UVjXwiv4JZSQQq25u_2fKiPv4ycMbMhK5G=s1080" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSz_ve5TPZdW-qif6TjPHh3s6jBsbhu5_3hkqI2IeQ4QfExGx2jLP2ABdAHWZUdMLMoRd5r0dImsqiL_jCN4aW_ijMvGwQAGlQWA71QdycbYFQN3TAtLPeM_OJ2g1Mzh48Hjr165V_L-Ph4XZpE2id15UVjXwiv4JZSQQq25u_2fKiPv4ycMbMhK5G=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div></div><div><b>Dorothy Chan, <a href="https://www.diodeeditions.com/product-page/babe-by-dorothy-chan" target="_blank"><i>Babe</i></a></b></div><div>Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author of most recently, BABE, in addition to Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and Chinatown Sonnets
(New Delta Review, 2017). They were a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist
for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Editor Emeritus of Hobart, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) literary arts organization. Visit their website at dorothypoetry.com<i> <br /></i></div><div><i> </i></div><div><b>Benjamin Gucciardi<i>, <a href="https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/west-portal/" target="_blank"><i>West Portal</i></a></i></b></div><div>Benjamin Gucciardi is the author of the chapbook <i>I Ask My Sister’s Ghost</i> (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press). His poems have appeared in AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, Harvard Review, New Ohio Review, Orion Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, and other journals. He has received BOOTH’s Prize for Unexpected Literature, the Milton Kessler Memorial Prize from Harpur Palate, the Trifecta Poetry Prize from Iron Horse Literary Review
and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, as well as awards and
fellowships from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference, Jentel Foundation,
PLAYA, and Artsmith. <b><i><i><br /></i></i></b></div><div><b><i><i> </i></i></b></div><div><b>I.S. Jones<i><i>, <a href="https://newfound.org/shop/i-s-jones-spells-of-my-name-print-e-book/" target="_blank"><i>Spells of My Name</i></a> </i></i></b></div><div>I.S. Jones is an American/Nigerian poet, essayist, and former music
journalist. Her honors include fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Brooklyn
Poets, and elsewhere. Her works have appeared in Guernica, Washington
Square Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Frontier Poetry, and elsewhere.
She is one-third of The Luminaries, an online space which provides free
poetry programming and reading events. She is the founder and
facilitator of The Singing Bullet: A month-long online poetry workshop.<i><i> <br /></i></i></div><div><i><i> </i> </i></div><div><b>Amanda Moore, <i><a href="https://amandapmoore.com/requeening" target="_blank">Requeening</a>.</i></b></div><div>Amanda Moore is a poet and essayist whose work has appeared in journals and anthologies, including <i>Best New Poets</i>, <i>ZYZZYVA</i>, and <i>Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting</i>. She teaches high school English and lives by the ocean in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, <i>Requeening</i>, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. </div><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span><!--more--></span></b></span></h3><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Friday, March 25th, 7:00pm</b></span></h1><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Keith LLC x Tabloid </span></b></span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix5CrYnIMtCH0NIeeuaeFOTehNy3AbpTwfHpNtlTV6crQP5Pfd6gMyhWm7OU9JJObbU1AUQdGVUckL-CAHtnuGjtLWWDIlCAxHzzKxhUQbP-jVJzA4VKkBpkePEoMnzRvVXI2h6Yi2DNF0mfs4dWM57VTdqUTSzqO5YigZEHSwVGsGfSZRrMsvFYRG=s995" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="864" height="531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEix5CrYnIMtCH0NIeeuaeFOTehNy3AbpTwfHpNtlTV6crQP5Pfd6gMyhWm7OU9JJObbU1AUQdGVUckL-CAHtnuGjtLWWDIlCAxHzzKxhUQbP-jVJzA4VKkBpkePEoMnzRvVXI2h6Yi2DNF0mfs4dWM57VTdqUTSzqO5YigZEHSwVGsGfSZRrMsvFYRG=w462-h531" width="462" /></a></div>Readings from the folks at <a href="https://www.keithllcpress.com/journal" target="_blank">Keith LLC Press</a> and <a href="https://linktr.ee/tabloidpress" target="_blank">Tabloid Press </a></span></b></span></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">featuring odds and ends from: <a href="https://tedreeswords.com/">Ted Rees</a>, <a href="https://www.keithllcpress.com/post/zoe-darsee" target="_blank">Zoe Darsee</a>, <a href="https://www.keithllcpress.com/post/katie-ebbitt" target="_blank">Katie Ebbitt</a>, <a href="https://zoebrezsny.com/" target="_blank">Zoe Brezsny</a>, <a href="https://www.keithllcpress.com/post/a-fraser-forsyth" target="_blank">A Fraser Forsyth</a>, <a href="https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/51045/">Matthew Hodges</a>, <a href="https://www.keithllcpress.com/post/chelsea-hogue" target="_blank">Chelsea Hogue</a>, <a href="https://thequarterlessreview.com/Zan-de-Parry" target="_blank">Zan De Parry</a> & <a href="http://www.adriennes.site/" target="_blank">Adrienne Herr</a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With music from <a href="https://ullastraus.bandcamp.com/album/tumbling-towards-a-wall">Ulla Strauss</a><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /></b></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></h3><div class="person-header__right"><div>
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This event is postponed until the fall. Stay safe, everyone!<br />
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Friday, March 13th, 7:00pm <br />
<b>Open Mouth Records Presents:</b><br />
<b>Susan Alcorn & Emily Robb</b><br />
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<a href="https://www.susanalcorn.net/" target="_blank">Susan Alcorn</a><br />
One of the world’s premiere exponents of her instrument, Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country music. Having first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands, she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of 20th century classical music, visionary jazz, and world musics.<br />
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Though known as for her solo work, she has collaborated with numerous artists including Pauline Oliveros, Chris Cutler, the London Improvisors Orchestra, the Glasgow Improvisors Orchestra, Joe McPhee, Ken Vandermark, Nate Wooley, Ingrid Laubrock and Leila Bourdreuil, George Burtm Evan Parker, Michael Formanek, Zane Campbell, and Mary Halvorson among others.<br />
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In 2016, she was voted "Best Other Instrument" by the International Critics Poll. In 2017 she received the Baker Artist Award, and in 2018, along with saxophonist Joe McPhee, she was the recipient of the Instant Award in Improvised Music.<br />
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The UK Guardian writes, “As an improvisor and composer, Alcorn has proven to be visionary. Her pieces reveal the complexity of her instrument and her musical experience while never straying from a very direct, intense, and personal musical expression.”<br />
Her latest release Soledad is available from Relative Pitch Records<br />
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<b>Emily Robb </b><br />
a Philadelphia based musician who works predominantly with guitar. She has recently begun performing as a solo act. Her repetitive and primal song forms are created through loops, pedals, and basic vocal phrases. Emily collaborates with several other musicians and records at her studio in South Philadelphia, Suddenly Studios. Her previous bands include Lantern, Myrrias, Louie Louie, Storks and Cold Hands. Astute Palate, her band with David Nance, Dan Provenzano and Richie Charles, has an album forthcoming on the Richie Records/Petty Bunco label. <br />
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$10 suggested <br />
byo drinks & snax<br />
doors at 7, music at 8Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-8308781884796821382020-03-10T12:22:00.004-04:002022-05-24T16:35:36.110-04:00Summer 2020 Open Mouth Records music series at BrickbatOpen Mouth Records has planned an excellent series of shows at the shop for this summer! Keep an eye out for more information about each of these events.<br />
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<b>Friday, February 28th, 7:00pm</b><br />
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<b>The Acoustic Lidders</b><br />
[It's the Heavy Lidders Quartet, but, you know, acoustic]<br />
Jeffrey Alexander (Dire Wolves) guitar/vocal, Jesse Sheppard (Elkhorn) bass, Drew Gardner (Elkhorn) lead guitar, Scott Verrastro (Bardo Pond) drums.<br />
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<b><a href="https://jordanperry1.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Jordan Perry</a></b> Virginia-based guitarist<br />
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<b><a href="https://ezrafeinberg.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Ezra Feinberg</a> </b>Brooklyn-based guitarist<br />
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$10 suggested / BYOBUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-79677973405631667152020-02-05T16:33:00.000-05:002022-05-24T16:35:40.355-04:00Event: February 14th -- Matt Krefting / Rosali<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Open Mouth Records Presents:<br />
Matt Krefting & Rosali<br />
Friday, February 14, 7:00pm<br />
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/kreftingmoondawn" target="_blank">Matt Krefting</a><br />
Matt Krefting is a writer, musician, and DJ based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in The Wire, The Huffington Post, Bull Tongue Review, and elsewhere. A member of Son of Earth, The Believers, and Idea Fire Company, he also creates his own solo music for cassettes. His music has been published by Open Mouth, Kye, and Ultra Eczema, among others. <br />
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<a href="https://rosali.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Rosali</a><br />
Philadelphia based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Rosali, incorporates diverse musical styles from free improv, garage rock, country, pop, to folk-infused song-craft. Her second album, Trouble Anyway, is a vulnerable and powerful exploration of emotional narratives. She wrote the songs seeking empowerment by sharing openly on love, power, aging, suffering, confusion, self-doubt, and anger, the results are a full-bodied record that is at once sweeping and intimate. Following up her 2016 debut Out of Love (Siltbreeze), named one of the top 100 records of 2016 by Uncut Magazine, Trouble Anyway is a cohesive collection of lush, intimate rock songs, featuring her warm, natural vocals and powerful riffing and rhythm guitar, approaching the sublime.<br />
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For the Brickbat show, Rosali is joined by pedal steel player Zena Kay.<br />
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$10 suggested <br />
byo drinks & snax<br />
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Open Mouth Records Presents:<br />
<b>Daniel Higgs and Lauren Pakradooni</b><br />
Friday, January 24th, 7:00pm<br />
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<a href="http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/daniel-higgs" target="_blank">Daniel Higgs</a><br />
Higgs is known primarily for his work as the sole lyricist and frontman of the band Lungfish, a four-piece dedicated to charting, in this listener’s estimation, nothing short of the evolution of all species, known and unknown. That the band has undertaken this pursuit in the guise of a humble rock outfit, in the absence of any public relations fanfare, metanarrative, or manifesto has been enough to endear them to tens of thousands. They are enshrined as one of America’s last true folk bands, and Higgs anointed as a patron saint to artistic purity.<br />
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In recent years, Higgs has released a number of solo outings that can only be described as the ultimate in isolation, worlds away from the hypnotic, communal rock of his band. On Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot, Higgs weaves meditative, casually ruptured drones using acoustic and electric guitar, upright pianos, banjo and jew’s harp, recorded entirely at home on cassette recorder. He pairs the music with a series of paintings that call to mind religious iconography passed through the disfiguring surrealism of Miro.<br />
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Higgs has wedded his music and his visual art into a singular being, meant to be encountered as a conjuring force similar to that of the tarot experience. The yggdrasil is the great tree of Norse myth that connects all worlds of cosmology. Passing into Christian folklore, the tree is said to connect heaven and earth. In his relentless pursuit of the indivisible, Higgs travels up and down this spine and hatches a new transubstantiation of sound and image into life-form.<br />
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<a href="http://laurenpakradooni.com/" target="_blank">Lauren Pakradooni </a><br />
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a Philadelphia-based visual artist and musician who produces and performs music under the moniker Tether in which she creates and manipulates cassette tape loops. Art multiples, repetition, and layering are a shared language between her visual and aural work. Her work emphasizes the slippage of form between the truly physical vestiges of ruins and the fantastical of half-rendered computer generated imagery.<br />
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byo drinks & snaxUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-81539100789134633412020-01-08T18:36:00.001-05:002022-05-24T16:35:43.764-04:00Author Event: January 19th -- Our Flesh of Flames::Theodore A. Harris / Amiri Baraka<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Sunday, January 19th, 5:00pm</b></span><br />
<i><b> Our Flesh of Flames</b></i>::Theodore A. Harris / Amiri Baraka<br />
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collagist Theodore A. Harris will be presenting a recorded performance by the late poet Amiri Baraka reading his poem "Our Flesh of Flames" as composed in conjunction with Harris' collaged images. Copies of Harris' book of collages with Baraka's poem will be available at the event for purchase. <br />
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Our Flesh of Flames “Posed against an eerily iridescent orange sky,” and Harris’ collaged landscapes are filled with urban dystopia. Upside down capitols, distorted bank notes pose the reality of a society fettered by the cash nexus. Controversial critic and poet Amiri Baraka provides lyrical assault through his captions with his trademark humor and biting social commentary.<br />
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Theodore A. Harris is a collagist, poet, and has co-authored:<br />
<i>Our Flesh of Flames</i> with Amiri Baraka<br />
<i>Malcolm X as Ideology</i> with Fred Moten<br />
<i>i ran from it and was still in it</i> and <i>TRIPTYCH</i>: Text by Amiri Baraka and Jack Hirschman. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-57764185653119280302019-12-30T14:41:00.001-05:002022-05-24T16:35:46.783-04:00Event: January 11th -- Patrick Holmes / Chris Forsyth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b> Saturday, January 11th, 7:00pm</b><br />
Open Mouth Records presents solo sets from<br />
<b>Patrick Holmes </b>and<b> Chris Forsyth</b><br />
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$10 suggested donation, BYOB & snax!<br />
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<a href="https://www.577records.com/patrick-holmes" target="_blank">Patrick Holmes</a> -- Originally from Austin, TX he started on electric bass as a teenager, switching over to the clarinet at age 24. He's been in New York for the past twenty years, working diligently to refine a voice and approach to the clarinet that is uniquely his own. He has studied with Connie Crothers and Sabir Mateen and he has performed with Ryan Sawyer, Daniel Carter, Masami Tomihisa, Axel Dörner and many many more. <br />
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<a href="https://thechrisforsyth.com/" target="_blank">Chris Forsyth</a> -- Philly's own lauded guitarist and bandleader whose widescreen art-rock, fusing taut compositions and mercurial improvisations, has earned him a reputation as one of the most distinctive and critically acclaimed guitarists working today. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-69250849947955557372019-12-15T15:50:00.000-05:002022-05-24T16:35:50.176-04:00Event: December 20th -- Luke Stewart / Madam Data<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Open Mouth Presents: <br />
<a href="https://wfubaa.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Luke Stewart</a> and <a href="https://madamdata.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Madam data</a> <br />
at Brickbat Books<br />
Friday, December 20th, 7:00pm<br />
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Luke Stewart is a DC/NYC-based musician and organizer of important musical presentations. He also has a presence in the national and international professional music community. He was profiled in the Washington Post in early 2017 as “holding down the jazz scene,” selected as “Best Musical Omnivore” in the Washington City Paper’s 2017 “Best of DC,” chosen as “Jazz Artist of the Year” for 2017 in the District Now, and in the 2014 People Issue of the Washington City Paper as a “Jazz Revolutionary,” citing his multi-faceted cultural activities throughout DC. In DC his regular ensembles include experimental jazz trio Heart of the Ghost, Low Ways Quartet featuring guitarist Anthony Pirog, and experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths. As a solo artist, he has been compiling a series of improvisational sound structures for Upright Bass and Amplifier, utilizing the resonant qualities of the instrument to explore real-time harmonic and melodic possibilities. He has performed at many of Washington’s high-profile venues including the Kennedy Center, the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, 9:30 Club, Black Cat, and many others throughout DC’s storied DIY community. Luke is also a presence in the greater community of Creative Musicians, with regular multi-city ensembles including Irreversible Entanglements featuring Moor Mother, James Brandon Lewis Trio, Heroes are Gang Leaders, Ancestral Duo, and has performed in a myriad of other notable collaborations. He has been a featured artist at the Vision Festival, Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music, High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, Fields Festival, Philadelphia Free Form Festival, Forward Festival, Furious Flower Poetry Festival, and has toured abroad at North Sea Jazz Festival, Toulouse Jazz Festival, Vitoria Jazz Festival, Belgrade Jazz Festival, and Rotterdam Jazz Festival. As a scholar/performer, he has performed and lectured at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Medgar Evers College, George Mason University, Wayne State University, University of Montana, New Mexico State University, and the University of South Carolina. He holds a BA in International Studies and a BA in Audio Production from American University, and an MA in Arts Management and Entrepreneurship from the New School.<br />
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Ada Adhiyatma is a musician who explores machine interfaces and the embodied idea of distance. Working with handmade computer programs, field recordings and old samplers, they fantasize about sound as a way to echolocate spaces defined by separations, the trauma of dislocation, the impossibility of empathy. Ada's performance personas in Philadelphia include the apocalyptic insect noise purveyor Madam Data, and various component identities of sci fi noise-thrash quintet OOLOI and the environmental improvisation duo 'place'. They also produce a podcast of discarded sound called The Floating World. <br />
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Ada's pronouns are they / them / theirs and they sit at the crossroads of certain disabilities and certain queernesses, often unsure what they're doing there.<br />
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(Open Mouth = Bill Nace)<br />
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Join us Tuesday, December 17th at Brickbat for a night of music with <a href="https://carolclevelandsings.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Carol Cleveland Sings</a> and <a href="https://pairdown.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Pairdown</a>.<br />
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Brickbat is thrilled to welcome New Zealand musician and writer Bill Direen (The Bilders) to the shop!<br />
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In Bill's own words: "I am a New Zealand musician, who has toured and released music since the early 80s, touring solo in November to celebrate a double-LP titled Bill Direen A Memory of Others , soundtrack of a documentary about me. The double LP was released this month by Sophomore Lounge of the USA. http://sophomoreloungerecords.com/amemoryofothers.html. You will note that the liner notes, quoted on that page, were written by esteemed rock journalist Byron Coley. <br />
My music is a balance of rock-informed electric guitar and soft electric ballads. Here is a trailer for the documentary which is backed by a quieter ballad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hPBDIGV8fc<br />
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On stage, I play electric guitar and electronic keyboards. I sing. I also read three brief extracts from poetic works. A percussionist (Chris Davis) accompanies me on a last few songs. "<br />
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Other performers TBA very soon!<br />
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Sunday, November 10th at 7:00pm<br />
Join us for an evening of good tunes and warm vibes with: <br />
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ALEXANDER (David Shapiro of CT's Headroom). <br />
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Jordan Burgis (Honey Radar) / Jesse Sheppard (Elkhorn) Duo<br />
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Suggested donation $10, byo drinks and snacks. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3346289103426570595.post-56906241566514882522019-10-08T06:50:00.000-04:002022-05-24T16:36:01.943-04:00Event: Nick Millevoi, Ross Hammond, Christopher Bruno<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This Friday, September 13th at 7:00pm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>An Evening of Acoustic Music <br />featuring <br /><br />Eli Winter (TX)<br />Barry Johnson (OH)<br />Swamp Yankee (Phil)<br /><br /><br /><a data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Feliwinter.bandcamp.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2iF7ZcEHXTtCq-Gy0nZ8B_4DxOCkVbxmQXFbZAkw4BobIoK_y_koPnGwE&h=AT0cwWVHhb8pFzlDNhs1rAT4n173b5AfcDKuNMHUK4g9jVUQDSRbWjH3yxpRMAOjquGpu2SbYIkW-2LI6_Icw_miQUcQou4bYe2eYihjn_swngy_STqcP5JnADUz1eXH8devwAmMxlY-hVR7Gw" href="https://eliwinter.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR2iF7ZcEHXTtCq-Gy0nZ8B_4DxOCkVbxmQXFbZAkw4BobIoK_y_koPnGwE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://eliwinter.bandcamp.com/</a><br /><br /><a data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbarryjohnson12.bandcamp.com%2Freleases%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2elJFUCyOS8hitqC6FAQlLbWFn_s3Ps6FV5UZGt1kTHPM_DfM9ipPuIa4&h=AT2kTlzaE_g4VR5CM7F9Sl9RZlXbH5WK3NawdaWHW90KwdCOSHFV3Q0AusV8OY9iAN_sNDmSq8mP2RcYUjeXKGYlXVCwkRogjlac6CD8dP0geQZxNAvgxX_2fNrnEhcuFu_ehuRfJQVQkbvmeQ" href="https://barryjohnson12.bandcamp.com/releases?fbclid=IwAR2elJFUCyOS8hitqC6FAQlLbWFn_s3Ps6FV5UZGt1kTHPM_DfM9ipPuIa4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://barryjohnson12.bandcamp.com/releases</a><br /><br /><a data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fswampyankeect.bandcamp.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR33DmIQI3N63MbBbdxPgIUWPqHkR8jvNwf9qHZczUH0UNRcwYsxGBBotaY&h=AT1JnXohdpsiRQ6ctJC9jdlZJt1YNuWRpH3uVa9BkdLx6RENHwtuxW031GN56tflbwYVTP2MXHbG1N454q-WKmjLPeoRwz5NXe88E1KdNLL9h7FjidaP5WqQ97MBOsAMM04uxbGsIP71rf4CtQ" href="https://swampyankeect.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR33DmIQI3N63MbBbdxPgIUWPqHkR8jvNwf9qHZczUH0UNRcwYsxGBBotaY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://swampyankeect.bandcamp.com/</a><br /><br /><br />***7PM Doors / $10 / all ages***</span> </span></div>
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For this book signing event Meghan & Beth will be for the <i>first time ever </i>achieving a "Two Panel Comic Challenge<i>", </i>a<i> "</i>Two Comic Panel Challenge" where two comic artists draw one two panel comic together! These original comics come as inserts for each comic purchase. </div>
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Meghan Turbitt is a self-described conservative media personality (lol) on social media. She lives in South Philadelphia with her baby daddy, daughter Billie "the chip" and two cats. Meghan's comics are a humorous romp in journal comic-ing, flipping the genre on its' edge stylistically - her lines are loose, improvised - like her sense of humor. You will feel like you have a new best friend once you start reading Turbz comics. Follow Meghan where ever you get your creative news feed on twitter @RIPMeghan, instagram @chips_and_tingles.</div>
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Beth Heinly is a self-described artist on social media. She lives in Philadelphia, nearly destitute. She writes an advice column on art making practice entitled "Ask Artblog" on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://theartblog.org/&source=gmail&ust=1560033449150000&usg=AFQjCNEoR_g4Zfy1676RD0goHk1sW14dEA" href="http://theartblog.org/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #4285f4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">theartblog.org</a> along with her long running weekly journal comic "The 3:00 Book". Beth's comics are dark, strident, biting humor on the abject of mundane existence. That actually makes them sound more important than they are tbh. Currently she is desperate for patreons, so please do sign up: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://patreon.com/bethheinly&source=gmail&ust=1560033449150000&usg=AFQjCNHQdRh5viOlQ3PimtypFaHbyRlzrQ" href="http://patreon.com/bethheinly" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #4285f4; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">patreon.com/bethheinly</a>, membership comes with all sorts of prizes and exclusive weekly comics. As if she doesn't have enough to do, you should follow her social media accounts if you are interested in guerrilla performance art, comics or cats @berthheiny. Tweets too @bethheinly </div>
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STACY WAKEFIELD's novel Sunshine Crust Baking Factory is a riveting coming-of-age story that follows a young woman who squats abandoned buildings with comrades in 1990s New York City. </div>
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Wakefield's artist books, published for many years under the imprint Evil Twin, have been collected by institutions include the Museum of Modern Art in New York and London’s Tate Modern. She runs a studio dedicated solely to book design and production. Her first novel, The Sunshine Crust Baking Factory, was published by Akashic in 2015. She lives in the Catskills and Brooklyn. Her other collaborations with Akashic are Please Take Me Off the Guest List and 131 Different Things, both with Zachary Lipez and Nick Zinner.</div>
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JON COLLIN is a musician from Lancashire, UK, now based in Stockholm, Sweden. He has released several LPs of freeform abstract guitar blues and several more short-run releases of through-composed drone works. He is interested in, amongst other things, recontextualising the role of the recording musician through outdoor recording and interactions with natural, mechanical and biological ambient sounds. As an artist his visual-conceptual work includes the long-term tape label project Winebox Press. His most recent LP releases are The Nature (Early Music, 2017) and Water and Rock Music Volume 1 (Feeding Tube, 2018).</div>
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Clavius Productions presents the Philadelphia debut of Rochester NY's Kinloch Nelson, a 69 year old acoustic guitarist who just released his first album on Tompkins Square. Nelson has been playing and teaching in the Rochester/Buffalo/upstate NY region for 50 years but has rarely ventured far from there. Saxophonist/throat singer Kyle Press (Love Club/Impressionist) and percussionist Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek/Curanderos) will perform as a duo for the first time. Starts at 8 sharp and will be done by 10! Plus Brickbat is one of the best bookshops in the city, so come by and browse and listen to some challenging acoustic music.</div>
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Kinloch (sounds like “kin-law”) Nelson (b. 1950) studied classical guitar privately with Stanley Watson, jazz guitar with Gene Bertoncini at Eastman School of Music, and music theory at the University of Rochester. In 1973, he began teaching both privately and at The Hochstein Music School where he was on the faculty for twenty-five years. In 1985, Nelson co-founded the Guitar Society of Rochester, which during its ten-year run presented many of the world’s greatest guitarists. Nelson is the author of a book, Alternate Guitar Tunings. He currently teaches privately, conducts guitar workshops and maintains a performance schedule.</div>
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"Some time in the turbulent summer of 1968 I went to visit my sister who was studying theater at Dartmouth College that semester. Big stages, spotlights, cat walks, backstage access – it was pretty exciting stuff for a high school kid from a small town. One night we walked across campus to check out the college’s radio station, WDCR. She had a friend, Dave Graves, who was doing a nightly radio show there and she figured I needed to see this. I walked into the station and time stopped. I had spent many an hour, pretty much from the crib on up, glued to AM radios, soaking up the music and the mystery. And now, here was the real deal. I took a look around: there was a production room with a couple Ampex tape recorders, a mixing console, fancy microphones and a recording room. Hmmm… So, I called up my high school friend Carter Redd and said, “Get on a bus and come on up and record.”</div>
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Since late 1967 Carter and I had been playing guitars together, working on songs of the day: Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Donovan. Before long we were writing songs and instrumental guitar tunes. We borrowed someone’s Sony reel-to-reel tape recorder and started making recordings. But, WDCR raised the bar. Somehow we persuaded Dave Graves to record us, and that’s how these recordings came about. Recorded at various times in the summers of ’68, ’69, and ’70, and in the winter break of ’69-’70, three of the songs in this collection are ones we did together, the rest are solo tunes of mine.</div>
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The first two songs we recorded were “Funky Susan” and “Partly On Time.” “Funky Susan” was Carter’s invention; I added the harmonica part and the second guitar part. “Partly On Time” we wrote together. “Lazin’ In my Sleep” was done a year later. Dave engineered the first two, and a few months later he took a chance and sent them off to John Phillips of The Mamas And Papas. Phillips was looking for new acts to produce and, sure enough, he liked what he heard. Months went by…then out of the blue he sent word for us be at a recording studio in Connecticut one day in January of 1969 to record a Mason Williams song which he figured we could learn and record. It never happened. Carter, a year ahead of me, had already graduated and taken off for a drive across the country. He was nowhere to be found, and there were no cell phones in those days. Weeks went by. Phillips, engrossed in producing the film “Monterey Pop” eventually lost interest. I’ve often wondered what might have happened had we recorded all these tunes for him and put them out way back then…</div>
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In the summer of 1969 I went back and recorded some more, this time alone, and was there when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The first rumors of the coming Woodstock Music And Art Fair were circulating. FM underground radio was emerging. Music genres were cross pollinating. It was an exciting time to be writing music. Carter and I went back to WDCR to record again that winter, and I went again by myself in the summer of 1970 to work at the station and record some more. But after those days, we pretty much went our separate ways. Sadly, somehow during all this the master tapes got lost or erased. The tapes that survived are copies.</div>
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So, one night in the summer of 1970, after I recorded “Kittens,” Tom Siebert’s Boat,” and “Winnipesaukee Night,” a friend of mine and I were listening to the tapes on my crummy little stereo and decided to take them over to his house to play them on his dad’s amazing hi-fi set. Off we drove with the tapes, my new tape recorder and my guitar in our family car. There’s an intersection in my hometown where a town road crosses a highway. That night as we were crossing the highway, a drunk driver, running from an accident he had caused at the previous light, ran the red light and hit us broadside. Wham! The car folded in half, the windows shattered, our car spun around 180 degrees and the tape recorder and all my tapes flew out the window and landed all over the highway. I should have been killed, but fortunately the driver hit the brakes and crashed into the passenger door just behind me. Amazingly we survived with only whiplash! My guitar, a 1960s era Gibson J-50, was in the back seat and didn’t fare as well, taking the full brunt of the crash. But the tapes and the recorder survived, and no one ran over them. I never met the driver. He was immediately taken to the hospital. He never showed up in court. They jailed him. The insurance company replaced our car, gave us some cash and I bought a brand new Martin D-18. And, they let me keep the J-50, which I later fixed.</div>
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That tape recorder has long since failed, but the tapes held up. I never thought they could be released commercially because, being copies, the quality wasn’t that good. Over the years I figured I would re-record the songs. But ultimately I never did, because how can one recapture the original mindset, feeling, vibe of the times and in particular the sound of that now-replaced studio? But thanks to the digital era the tapes have cleaned up reasonably well and the songs have come to life.</div>
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As I write this, I am sitting in a hotel room in, of all places, Woodstock NY. At the concert here last night I happened to play one of the songs from those tapes, “Kittens.” And now, looking back, it occurs to me that the wrecked family car was the same one my sister and I drove in to that infamous Woodstock Music And Art Fair…that same summer in which I wrote and recorded that song…back when all of these songs were spinning constantly in my head. Now, half a century later, I guess they still are…Cheers" (K. Nelson)</div>
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Kyle Press & Scott Verrastro (Philadelphia)</div>
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http://claviusproductions.com/</div>
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Press (Love Club/Impressionist): alto sax, throat singing, electronics</div>
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Verrastro (Kohoutek/Bardo Pond/Curanderos/Dirt Weed Revue): percussion, flutes, whistles, found objects</div>
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