#musiclikedirt

[happyasalarkmusic]

Super stoked to kick out some old school jams on a beautiful Sunday afternoon at our favorite bar inna Chicago - July 14 it’s nothing but sweet #rocksteady, JA #ballads and soulful #ska at @estereo_chicago starting at 3pm - Low & Steady how we rollllll ... It’s Intensified! . . . #vinyl #records #45rpm #chicagoreggae #jamaicanoldies #reggae #reggay #bossreggae #musiclikedirt (at Estereo) https://www.instagram.com/p/BztOa-_nY89/?igshid=1vb6bi8u1mf94

[furtho]

Scritti Politti’s guide to DIY record releasing, 1980

[betterbebetterbebetter]

Advice to the Players

There is something missing in our definition, vision, of a human being: the need to make.                 • We are creatures who need to make.                 • Because existence is willy-nilly thrust into our hands, our fate is to make something— if nothing else, the shape cut by the arc of our lives.                 • My parents saw corrosively the arc of their lives.                 • Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.                 • But being is making: not only large things, a family, a book, a business: but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between two friends, a meal.                 • Or mis-shape.                 • Without clarity about what we make, and the choices that underlie it, the need to make is a curse, a misfortune.                 • The culture in which we live honors specific kinds of making (shaping or mis-shaping a business, a family) but does not understand how central making itself is as manifestation and mirror of the self, fundamental as eating or sleeping.                 • In the images with which our culture incessantly bombards us, the cessation of labor is the beginning of pleasure; the goal of work is to cease working, an endless paradise of unending diversion.                 • In the United States at the end of the twentieth century, the greatest luxury is to live a life in which the work that one does to earn a living, and what one has the appetite to make, coincide— by a kind of grace are the same, one.                 • Without clarity, a curse, a misfortune.                 • My intuition about what is of course unprovable comes, I'm sure, from observing, absorbing as a child the lives of my parents: the dilemmas, contradictions, chaos as they lived out their own often unacknowledged, barely examined desires to make.                 • They saw corrosively the shape cut by the arc of their lives.                 • My parents never made something commensurate to their will to make, which I take to be, in varying degrees, the general human condition— as it is my own.                 • Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.                 • Without clarity, a curse, a misfortune.                 • Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.                 • I abjure advice-giver.                 • Go make you ready. From Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books, Louisville, 2002, pp. 14-17)

-Frank Bidart

[happyasalarkmusic]

🔵 Back on it 🔵 Sunday vibes to close out yer weekend right - HAAL’s very own Selector King Tony & special guest Ali Baba Spinning strictly the ruffest sounds from the early days of JA - Low & Steady at Estereo, It’s Intensified! . . . #vinyl #records #45rpm #chicagoreggae #jamaicanoldies #reggae #reggay #bossreggae #musiclikedirt (at Estereo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4prTFLHCI8/?igshid=12litzmmeve67

[happyasalarkmusic]

🔵 Back on our chill! 🔵 This Sunday/11 HAAL CEO Selector King Tony & Nic The Graduate playing nothing but sweet sweet #rocksteady, boss #reggae and Jamaican #ballads at our favorite summertime hang @estereo_chicago ! ... ... ... #vinyl #records #45rpm #chicagoreggae #jamaicanoldies #reggay #bossreggae #musiclikedirt #ska (at Estereo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B08q5RsHdkU/?igshid=1suhyvmtedz8n

[happyasalarkmusic]

TODAY! Sunday vibes to close out yer weekend right - Spinning strictly the ruffest sounds from the early days of JA - Low & Steady at Estereo, It’s Intensified! . . . #vinyl #records #45rpm #chicagoreggae #jamaicanoldies #reggae #reggay #bossreggae #musiclikedirt (at Estereo) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2cHypfHX1L/?igshid=c1i6tok0m2ih

[musiclikedirt]

A belated Top 200 Tracks of 2012 ( or the 200ish that were available on Spotify reinforced by a few that just missed the cut)