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  • DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET Photos

    Okkyung Lee (via last.fm) From DOWNTOWNMUSIC.NET: April 02, 2009 Carbon performs SyndaKit, Issue Project Room Rachel Golub, Dave Hofstra, Rubin Kodheli, Ron Lawrence, Okkyung Lee, Will Martina, Jessica Pavone, Reuben Radding, Kevin Ray, Elliott Sharp, Liuh-Wen Ting Octal, Issue Project Room Elliott Sharp

  • Excursion to the Left Coast: John Zorn @ Yoshi’s San Francisco

    Masada (via last.fm) From Black Plastic Bag: I recently flew across the country to watch a New York musician play a series of concerts in San Francisco. If that doesn’t seem to make much sense, consider that downtown legend John Zorn, a recent recipient of the half-a-million-bucks Macarthur “Genius” grant, almost never plays live except…

  • New Releases From Leo Records

    Sun Ra (via last.fm) From Leo Records: Sun Ra – Live in Cleveland, 1975 Marilyn Crispell Quartet & Quintet – Collaborations Collective 4tet – In Transition Szilard Mezei Wind Quartet – We Were Watching The Rain Lapslap: Michael Edwards / Martin Parker / Karin Schistek – Scratch Andreas Willers – Drowning Migrant

  • Upcoming Detroit Area Shows

    Paal Nilssen-Love (via last.fm) From the Bohemian National Home in Exile: Sat. March 14th: Jeff Marx Quartet at 2739 Edwin Detroit native Jeff Marx was inspired to dedicate himself to the saxophone after seeing fellow Detroiter Sonny Stitt as a child. He paid some dues here before relocating to the Bay Area, New York and…

  • Sonomu Reviews

    From Sonomu: Clinker, On the Other Side… (for L. Cohen) (CDR Dragon´s Eye Recordings) Dragon´s Eye Recordings have recently slid down the American west coast from Seattle to Los Angeles. Home of a small cadre of artists mainly committed to shaping and manipulating the very air and architecture around them, as witnessed by recent releases…