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I am a HUGE fan of Yasmin Williams. And ... I bought this LP at my local independent record store.

Yasmin Williams has announced a US headline tour behind her critically acclaimed new album, Acadia. The dates begin with four shows in California in December, before picking back up on the East Coast in February with shows in Baltimore, NYC, Northampton, Philadelphia, and more. Williams also plays Pitchfork Music Festival in London in November and Brandi Carlile's Girls Just Wanna Weekend in Mexico in January. Details/tickets here.

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Unadorned alt rock still echoes. Gloriously awkward.

The Hard Quartet – Webster Hall – October 17, 2024

Stephen Malkmus (bass, guitar, vocals), Chavez’s Matt Sweeney (bass, guitar, vocals), the Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly (bass, guitar, vocals) and Dirty Three’s Jim White (drums, vocals) teamed up to form the Hard Quartet and began jamming together in 2023. And following the release of their eponymous debut album — “cosmically trippy joy” — two weeks ago, last night, they filled Webster Hall with that very same joy.

The Hard Quartet played the album in full and then doubled down on “Action for Military Boys” with its chorus played as a jam and the show’s encore.

(Plus, Sweeney regaled the crowd with a story about seeing the Replacements at Webster Hall when it was still known as the Ritz and asking Bob Stinson outside the venue what it was like being in a band. The guitarist told him that it was cool and that he always had $20 in his pocket — and that answer “ruined” Sweeney’s life.)

Photos courtesy of Edwina Hay | thisisnotaphotograph.com

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My alter ego playing a Cello Banjo at Friendly Coffee Shop with the Oak Park Farmers Market Band (at Berwyn, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cle1ZeFrOL-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A sign of the times. Poetry about Zoom rooms.

These sonnets, excerpted from a group that forms the title poem of Mary Jo Salter’s recent collection, bring us into the newly configured “rooms” of her current life, populated by students, her first grandchild, existential comedy.

Zoom Rooms

Followers and Friends and Participants, Gallery View, which Speaker View supplants, Meeting Attendants, who for now are Mute or worse, Unmute, a word I might dispute even exists, whether verb or adjective: Is this life? Is this how you want to live? Nose-scratches broadcast, thoughts shrunk to an icon or two (Clap, Thumbs Up), and if you leave your mic on while others talk, your faintest sighing framed in gold light like a vanity mirror? Named on your little tile, you can’t slip out unseen. Self-surveilled, your eye contact on-screen seems off. Don’t look at people! Focus where the tiny camera is that proves you’re there. * Bookcase-prop and real or fake bouquet behind you, well-dressed only to the waist as if in a casket, top half on display, here’s another weirdness to be faced: you’re in the Gallery. You’re shown as one of your own satellites—as if the sun were both a planet and the Copernican magnet for all planets. Yes, I can undo all this and activate the Hide Self feature . . . where was that again? It’s hidden nearly as neatly as the moon’s dark side. But that’s like suicide. It feels forbidden now that I’m linked to the beloved spectator who is myself: light-source and shadowed crater. * Here, as professor, I am Host; Enable the Waiting Room, and one by one Admit my students etherized around a table in the Platonic classroom where they sit— or recline in bed. Protest this? I don’t dare. Full roster: nobody’s ill! Smile and wave hello, a new habit. Can you hear me? Share Screen, clicking a doc I thought to Save to Desktop on my laptop. This is normal. Mixed metaphors, and no term we have chosen ourselves. Whether our verse was free or formal, we thought we were free thinkers . . .  Oops, you’re frozen, we’re bound to say. We sign on for more jargon. Paste in the password, try to Join again.

More on this book and author:

Learn more about Zoom Rooms by Mary Jo Salter.

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Early notice - @alewife_music in the SideBar at FitzGerald’s on Sat 5/7, 8pm @fitzgeraldsnightclub @fitzgeraldssidebar (at FitzGerald’s) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbn5_OmLTjw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts #antifascist #antiracism #antiracist (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CC0vAvjjBK9/?igshid=pre3gf3biw78

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #antiracist #antifa #blacklivesmatter #blm #vote https://www.instagram.com/p/CBi6xiuDQ8A/?igshid=war1orp4a5t6

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #antiracist #antifa #blm #blacklivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CBisHO_DXJu/?igshid=jia7zcn8wunm

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #antiracist #antifa #blm #blacklivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CBibmFpDu7e/?igshid=lq9k2jx3kvsh

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #antiracist #antiracism #blm #blacklivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CBibLsUjiFM/?igshid=1hdk5xzoi6c7a

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #antiracist #blm #blacklivesmatter “In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” - Angela Y. Davis https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdfeGij4KC/?igshid=1q3apoelpdzhs

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I still believe in Hope https://www.instagram.com/p/CBddXF1DqbP/?igshid=94md2svbtows

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #antiracist #blm #blacklivesmatter #vote https://www.instagram.com/p/CBddQwRD7bq/?igshid=190b0i7ar2pkv

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #antiracist #blacklivesmatter #vote https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYxRg7jQac/?igshid=1c8x1vjvwmbi3

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posts. #vote #antiracist #blacklivesmatter https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYwYv6jWx4/?igshid=1xhz8jzjn36up

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posters #antiracist #blacklivesmatter ... “You don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist” — Ijeoma Oluo https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYebrUjFWi/?igshid=vpjx4gm6que

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A series of stock graphics turned into protest posters #antiracist #blacklivesmatter #vote https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYdOqvjftz/?igshid=1y0qlr99snqd4