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Crevice Live at Flight Gallery 2/14

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Paisley Babylon’s Joe Wallace reunites with Crevice for this performance at Flight Gallery @ 1906 S. Flores San Antonio, Texas on Valentine’s Day. This is a special performance by one of the classic Crevice lineups. Featuring James Cobb, Bryan Stanchak, James Sidlo, Jeff DeCuir and Paisley Babylon’s Joe Wallace, this version of Crevice goes back to the band’s roots. Crevice was known for using a combination of mutated jazz sounds combined with theremin, Moogs and other analog synths to create atmospheres ranging from deceptively calm to violently psychedelic.

Before their shocking live debut in 1996, Crevice were obsessively toiling away in the studio, abusing equipment to its limit in search of the perfect headphone trip.

One hundred and fifteen instruments were used on their debut CD–everything from giant Moog-monster insect soundtracks to super-chill acoustic panoramas. Two of the group’s three members were working on outside soundtrack projects at the time, so it’s no surprise that Crevice sounds more influenced by Apocalypse Now, The Shining, 2001, or Forbidden Planet than by any particular rock band.

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Are Newspapers the New Vinyl?

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vinyl-albums-and-newspapersEdward J. Delaney asked this question in a summertime blog post last year–one I’m only catching up to now. He compares vinyl–once discarded as useless by audiophiles–to newspapers. The implication is that perhaps newspapers will have a similar renaissance once most of the big boys have folded.

A better comparison would be to compare newspaper companies to their major label counterparts in the music industry. Both are clueless about the power of the Internet, both are in trouble, both have limited futures unless they can change with the times. The majors have made more inroads on this front than the newspapers. Imagine a major label with a head executive in charge of decision making where bands are concerned saying they aren’t literate about the net!

That very thing happened last summer when a Chicago Tribune editor admitted on television that he didn’t understand the Internet. Why that guy wasn’t fired immediately, I will never know.

Check out Is The Newspaper The New Vinyl Album for additional discussion. Me personally, I think vinyl is here to stay, but newspapers aren’t.

Turntabling Records News

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There is plenty of news about our label, Turntabling Records. We’ve got three new CDs planned for May/June 2009 and it looks like things are heating up in the recording studio once more for Paisley Babylon. The new albums include the first-ever wide release of a Post-Mortem Telepathy CD, plus Texas new wavers Goop are readying their toxic onslaught for May as well. Brace yourself! The tidal wave of tunes is coming…read all the relevant details and save your pennies for iTunes downloads coming soon.