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1. The Experimental Bunnies - Do What Now? - Bunnies At Large
2. Bert Jansch - Angie (Live) 1964 - Bert Jansch
3. A Paper Cup Band - Just Because You Smoke, Doesn't Mean You're A Philosopher (A Brief Intermission) - Midwestern Post-Sarcastic
4. X-tal - Dogma Suit - Reason Is 6/7 of Treason
5. Suicide - Girl - Suicide
6. Pocket Shelley - Acid Orange - Small Illuminations in a Darkening Sky
7. J Neo Marvin and The Content Providers - Kite Song - What is Truth?
8. Liliput/ Kleenex - DC-10 - Liliput/ Kleenex
9. Harm Farm - Jersey Devil - Spawn
10. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up - Curtis [Remastered]
11. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Diddy Wah Diddy - The Dust Blows Forward: An Anthology
12. The Mekons - Zeroes And Ones - Natural
13. Fire Engines - Candyskin - Hungry Beat
14. The 6ths - You You You You You (w/ Katherine Whalen) - Hyacinths and Thistles
15. Magik Markers - Taste - Boss
16. Erase Errata - Rider - Nightlife
17. Consider The Source - Patterns - Esperanto
18. Crashing Dreams - Endurance Run - Minimum To Exist
19. Short Dogs Grow - I Got It Right - Short Dogs Grow
20. The Monkees - Daily Nightly - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.

Note: Last Saturday, we participated in a little bit of punk history as Meri St. Mary, accompanied by J Neo Marvin on guitar, played a blazingly sweet set on the big stage at Lennon Studios, reminding the old-school punk crowd what a phenomenal performer and writer she is. Neo was proud to be a part of this event.

The set list:

ASHES
WINDBAGS
HARD TO BE HUMAN
UNION SUNRISE
TROPICAL FISH
OBLIVION
MISADVENTURE
WILD WIMMIN (with about 20 wild wimmin filling the stage and joining in on the choruses!)

Neo's original announcement for the show follows. Big apologies to those who got the message, rushed over, and were turned away because it was a "private party". We'll be putting up some video on this site.

This Saturday, July 5, I will be accompanying one of my favorite
songwriters, singers, and storytellers, Meri St. Mary, at Lennon
Studios on 271 Dore St. SF. It's part of a huge marathon show/wake in
memory of a woman named Spike, and the bill is full of reunited San
Francisco punk bands from 25 years ago.

Meanwhile, Meri and I will be doing some of her brilliant,
little-heard solo songs from the late 90s, a couple of my songs
(including "Misadventure", the X-tal song cowritten by the late Maati
Stojanovich that Meri sang an incredible guest vocal on), an indelible
Housecoat Project classic (can you guess which one?), and her great
rendition of the Mekons' "Hard To Be Human".

The admission is $10 for the whole thing. Meri will be on the big
stage at 4:00. Barbecue will be served. Come and witness the power of
a clean and sober Meri St. Mary!

-J Neo Marvin

1. The Langley Schools Music Project - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Innocence & Despair
2. MC5 - Looking At You - The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5
3. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans (Bonus Track) - New Orleans Piano
4. The Damned - Curtain Call - Smash It Up: The Anthology 1976-1987
5. Housecoat Project - Wild Wimmin - Wide Eye Doo Dat?
6. Big Youth - House Of Dreadlocks - Dreadlocks Dread
7. Superaquello - Como Campana - Little Darla Has A Treat For You, Volume 23: Summer 2005
8. The Pretty Things - Private Sorrow - S.F. Sorrow
9. Loop!Station - Towering - Obey Your Signal
10. Paleface - World Full of Cops - Paleface
11. Linda Smith - I Just Had To - Till Another Time (7" single)
12. The Dirtbombs - Ever Lovin' Man - We Have You Surrounded
13. Bob Dylan - Political World - Oh Mercy
14. Yoko Ono - Listen, The Snow Is Falling - Sometime In New York City
15. Sara Jaffe - Port Authority - Salt & Water
16. Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day And John Coltrane - Pieces Of A Man
17. The Cannanes - Frightening Thing - International Pop Underground Vol. XXXVII
18. The Mekons - Cockermouth - Natural
19. Robert Wyatt - Out Of The Blue - Comicopera
20. Love - The Daily Planet - Forever Changes

New Blame SF song called 'Get Out"New Blame SF song called 'Get Out" directed toward those who need to leave.

Hi Everyone.

The Blame, located in San Francisco, just uploaded their latest rant about this current administration. It is called "Get Out".


The Blame is one of our Ear Candle Productions bands and you get to hear it first. This is unreleased and can only be heard where we post it. Players are J Neo Marvin, Davis Jones, and guest artist Stereo Steve.

Here is the link.

http://ww.earcandleproductions.com/Get_Out.mp3

We are proud of this one! Feedback anyone?

But if you know what we mean, have seen we have seen,
you will understand.

If not, get noodlebrained, in my not so humble opinion (IMNSHO)!

smiles,
davis

This month brought us double doses of Terese Taylor and the Experimental Bunnies (both Bunnies tracks are from our in-the-works digital release), plus vinyl-only classics from old friends Housecoat Project and the Subtonix, and an impressive showing at number 15 for East-West classical fusion wizard Matthew Grasso's Nada Brahma Music Ensemble. Our listeners again show their boldness by hanging in there through all 19+ minutes and giving their thumbs up. Matthew is a one-of-a-kind artist and we're glad to see him getting his props on Ear Candle Radio.

Our new playlist is up, 17 hours of eclectic goodness. We only have a couple more DJ sequences to finish. In the meantime, please listen for our "War And Authoritarianism" set, which intersperses appropriate songs with readings from Chris Hedges' WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING (accompanied by Experimental Bunnies music).

1. T.Rex - Rip Off (Remastered LP Version) - Electric Warrior
2. The Experimental Bunnies - Grief - Music For The Integrity Tone Scale
3. The Experimental Bunnies - Emergency - Music For The Integrity Tone Scale
4. Housecoat Project - Wild Wimmin - Wide Eye Doo Dat?
5. Terese Taylor - Dog Jackson - Good Luck Investigationship
6. New York Dolls - Pills - New York Dolls
7. Matching Mole - O Caroline - Matching Mole
8. Heartless Bastards - All This Time - All This Time
9. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Number 1 Hit Jam - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
10. The Au Pairs - Pretty boys - Equal But Different: BBC Sessions 79-81
11. Terese Taylor - Everything I Touch - Clothes We Wore Before We Were Married
12. Magik Markers - Taste - Boss
13. Sara Jaffe - Port Authority - Salt & Water
14. The Rolling Stones - She Said Yeah - Out Of Our Heads (UK)
15. Nada Brahma Music Ensemble - Miyan Ying - The Five Deadly Talas
16. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire - If Your Memory Serves You Well
17. The Mothers Of Invention - Anything - Cruising With Ruben And The Jets
18. J Church - We Play Secular Music - Horror of Life
19. Swell - (It's Time To) Move On - 41
20. The Subtonix - Today's Modern Woman - Trophy

1. Sara Jaffe - Port Authority - Salt & Water
2. Clarence Frogman Henry - Ain't Got No Home - The Best Of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues, Vol. 2
3. T.Rex - Rip Off (Remastered LP Version) - Electric Warrior
4. Professor Longhair - Ball The Wall - New Orleans Piano
5. New York Dolls - Pills - New York Dolls
6. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - South Carolina (Barnwell) [Live] - From South Africa To South Carolina
7. The Donner Party - Before Too Long - Complete Recordings 1987-1989
8. Magik Markers - Taste - Boss
9. The Kinks - Some Mother's Son - Arthur - Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire
10. Ill Ease - Sick Groove - Circle Line Tours
11. The Experimental Bunnies - Normal - Music For The Integrity Tone Scale
12. John Lennon - Serve Yourself - Wonsaponatime
13. J Neo Marvin and The Content Providers - Shouting Fire in a Crowded Theatre
14. Barbara Manning - Wires Cages Fences and Gates - Super Scissors
15. Iggy Pop - Fall In Love With Me - Lust For Life
16. John Lee Hooker - Boogie Chillen - The Very Best Of John Lee Hooker
17. The Mountain Goats - Cao Dai Blowout - New Asian Cinema
18. The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44 - Odessey and Oracle
19. The Pop O Pies - I Am The Walrus - Pop-O-Anthology: 1984-1993
20. Yoko Ono - Listen, The Snow Is Falling - Sometime In New York City

1. The Mountain Goats - In The Craters On The Moon - Heretic Pride
2. Dengue Fever - Tiger Phone Card - Venus On Earth
3. It Thing - Send - The OTBJBDTAE
4. The Wild Magnolias - Shoo Fly (Don't Bother Me) - The Wild Magnolias
5. Systemwide - Baten El Ghoul - Sirius
6. The Slits - Improperly Dressed - Return Of The Giant Slits
7. The Blame - Worker Bee - The Full Disclosure Principle
8. Suicide - Harlem - The Second Album + The First Rehearsal Tapes
9. The Move - Fields Of People - Shazam
10. King Tommy's Velvet Runway - I Can't Tell You - Dance On The Volcano
11. J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers - Little Emperor - Freedom Fried
12. Hazeldine - Mining Camp Blues - Orphans
13. Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day And John Coltrane - Pieces Of A Man
14. The Cat Heads - Alice On The Radio - Odds And Ends
15. Numbers - New Life - Now You Are This
16. Loop!Station - Towering - Obey Your Signal
17. Irma Thomas - Wish Someone Would Care - Time Is On My Side
18. David Bowie - Big Brother - Diamond Dogs
19. The Clash - The Equaliser - Sandinista!
20. The Triffids - The Seabirds - Born Sandy Devotional

Hello everyone;

Neo and I are building away, picking up new skills, and creating new ways to promote our Ear Candle Radio, and our Ear Candle Productions record label. As our country falls apart, let's get inspired to help ourselves by listening to the sound of light entering the underground brain. Sometimes it's tough. Sometimes it's mean. Sometimes it's just plain clean, clear and mind implodingly real.

Come check out our new store. Buy a T-shirt or a button or a mug, if you can afford it! CD's and DVD's will be going up shortly as well. And please, give us feedback! We don't know how we are doing unless you tell us, so let it rip!

Also, don't forget that we have a monthly top twenty playlist that you, the audience, votes in. This is listed in our news monthly, and now that we have promotional items, we will ship an ear candle button to the number one winner every month. Just make sure we get your snail mail address.

BTW, we are no longer performing live. We still have stock to sell on our Ear Candle Productions site of both X-tal and J Neo Marvin and the Content Providers records. Stuff we made with our own money and our own little hands. There is a limited number of these recordings so get them before they become collectors items. The lyrics are still applicable today as they were when they were recorded. You can order these from our site, from the CDBaby.com site, or from Amoeba in San Francisco.

We are busy making more recordings as The Blame (a twosome featuring J Neo Marvin and Davis Jones) and as The Experimental Bunnies (featuring a collection of artists). We just put out two digital albums that you can find on a collection of music sites. (itunes, rhapsody, emusic, napster). If you belong to any of these mp3 sites, just download to your ipod and enjoy. The Blame album is called "The Full Disclosure Principle" and The Experimental Bunnies album is called "Music for the Integrity Tone Scale", 14 instrumentals designed for the 16 states of integrity created by Vern Black and David Goodman. (Yes, two are medleys.) You can find an example of the Integrity Tone Scale on Davis' site Noodle Brain Productions.

Davis will be creating a store for Noodle Brain as well. If you want to have access to the launching of that promotional media, please join her mailing list at www.noodlebrain.com.

Hey... thanks for being out there and for listening to the station!

We'll be putting more info about this on our front page, but in the meantime:

NEWS FLASH! You can buy The Blame's debut 5-song EP*, The Full Disclosure Principle on iTunes. This is the first in a series of digital-only releases from Ear Candle Productions.

The EP includes a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Democracy", which has been getting an incredible amount of hits lately. Perhaps democracy really is coming to the USA.



*There seem to be a few other Blames out there. Hmmmm. Accept no substitutes!

1. Team Dresch - To The Enemies Of Political Rock - Captain My Captain
2. George Harrison - Dream Scene - Wonderwall Music
3. Combustible Edison - Carnival Of Souls - I, Swinger
4. Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans (Bonus Track) - New Orleans Piano
5. Tall Dwarfs - Lucky - Weeville
6. Syd Barrett - Word Song - Opel
7. Sarah Dougher - Lay Back And Stay - Harper's Arrow
8. The Experimental Bunnies - Uncertainty - Music For The Integrity Tone Scale
9. Erase Errata - Rider - Nightlife
10. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire - If Your Memory Serves You Well
11. The Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass - Theme Amour Universal - Les Stances a Sophie
12. Stiff Little Fingers - State Of Emergency - Inflammable Material
13. Rob K - Max Fish - The End Of The Earth
14. Pentangle - Sally Go Round The Roses - Basket Of Light
15. Mecca Normal - The Caribou & The Oil Pipeline - The Observer
16. The Experimental Bunnies - Nonexistence - Music For The Integrity Tone Scale
17. The Experimental Bunnies - Open Your Mouth And Say OM - Bunnies On Fire
18. The Beach Boys - Till I Die - Landlocked
19. African Head Charge - What A Wonderful Day - Pay It All Back
20. T.Rex - Woodland Rock (Remastered Single Version) - Electric Warrior (Remaster)

1. Roger Ruskin Spear - I Love To Bumpity Bump On A Bumpy Road With You - Unusual (Also a bonus track on the Bonzo Dog Band reissue, KEYNSHAM)
2. Dick Kent - Maker Of Smooth Music - The American Song-poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood And Brush
3. Barbara Manning - Wires Cages Fences and Gates - Super Scissors
4. The Mountain Goats - The Anglo-Saxons - Ghana
5. Judy Collins - Colombe - In My Life
6. The Clash - Broadway - Sandinista!
7. Paul Revere & the Raiders - Melody For An Unknown Girl - Paul Revere & The Raiders - Greatest Hits
8. Minutemen - Courage - 3-Way Tie (For Last)
9. Vomit Launch - Scraping Willows - Exiled Sandwich
10. Barn Owl - The Sun Falls - Bridge To The Clouds
11. Tino - Kickit Dub - Tino's Breaks Vol. 5 - DUB
12. Sonic Youth - Or - Rather Ripped
13. The Rumors - Hold Me Now - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
14. Jefferson Airplane - Bear Melt - Bless Its Pointed Little Head
15. The Pretty Things - Private Sorrow - S.F. Sorrow
16. Kevin Ayers - Brainstorm - The Unfairground
17. Six Organs Of Admittance - Goddess Atonement - Shelter From The Ash
18. Linda Smith - Re-enactment - Something New
19. Electrolettes - Anxiety - Octane Lies/Anxiety
20. Deerhoof - Song Of Sorn - Milk Man

KUCINICH NOW 2008

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As we transition into a new year, a new playlist, and a new USB turntable (expect more vintage vinyl in our future!), Ear Candle Radio wishes our listeners old and new a smashing new year, filled with breakthroughs.

Artists from our own label made a fine showing this month, with the Blame, X-tal (a rare and all-too-relevant track, never released on CD and ripped fresh from the vinyl...thank you Audacity software), and J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers all appeared this time. Thanks for your votes.

1. Sonic Youth - Fire Engine Dream - Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities
2. Mighty Sparrow - Russian Satellite - First Flight: Early Calypsos from the Emory Cook Collection
3. David Bowie - Always Crashing In The Same Car - Low
4. The Pretty Things - Come See Me - Get the Picture?
5. The Modern Lovers - Girl Friend - The Modern Lovers
6. The Go-Betweens - Love Goes On! - 16 Lovers Lane
7. The Blame - Worker Bee - The Blame
8. X-tal - More Fun In The New World Order - The Humboldt Desert
9. Shotwell - Neighborhood Man - Celery, Beef And Iron
10. The Mountain Goats - Cao Dai Blowout - New Asian Cinema
11. The Jelly Beans - I Wanna Love Him So Bad - More Girl Groups Greats
12. Heartless Bastards - Finding Solutions - All This Time
13. Tall Dwarfs - Ozone - Weeville
14. Sly & The Family Stone - Family Affair - The Essential Sly & The Family Stone
15. J Neo Marvin and The Content Providers - Kite Song
16. Bright Eyes - Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed) - Cassadaga
17. Tarika - Sonegaly (Senegalese) - Son Egal
18. The Stooges - Fun House - Fun House
19. Ninety Nine - Imperial - 180 Degrees
20. Curtis Mayfield - Other Side Of Town - Curtis [Remastered]

We're in the process of creating our new playlist, parts of which we've been test-driving on the air for the last couple weeks. Already, our listeners have voted some of our new additions into this month's Top 20, including a lush Beatlesque pop ballad recorded by an old high school friend of mine, Steve Barden. Congratulations, Steve. The Incredible String Band appear not once, but twice, which is gratifying to me, since I was into them long before the current "freak folk" fad hit. Thank you, dear listeners. Stay tuned for more changes. We have a lot more new music coming up for you.

In other news, we've been having a blast creating a new series of station IDs for Ear Candle Radio featuring some suave voiceover work from Content Providers bassist David Fox. Hope you enjoy them. It's a challenge to cram all we want to say into a 20 second spot!

1. The Music Machine - Talk Talk - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968
2. The Curtains - Go Lucky - Calamity
3. J Neo Marvin and The Content Providers - Room 205 - Slowly I Turned
4. The Moovers - Someone to Fulfill My Needs - Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label
5. The Incredible String Band - Beyond the See - Wee Tam and the Big Huge
6. Steve Barden - I Think Of You - Tallulah Lake
7. The Cannanes - Bad Timing - Arty Barbecue
8. The Bonzo Dog Band - Look At Me, I'm Wonderful - Tadpoles
9. War - The World Is A Ghetto - War - Grooves & Messages: The Greatest Hits of War
10. Sebadoh - Hoppin' Up And Down - III
11. The Pretty Things - Private Sorrow - S.F. Sorrow
12. Robert Wyatt - A Beautiful War - Comicopera
13. Leonard Cohen - Anthem - The Future
14. The Doors - Wintertime Love - Waiting For The Sun
15. The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man - Let It Bleed
16. The Incredible String Band - Sleepers, Awake! - Changing Horses
17. Danny Scherr - Too Far Down - Richmond Special
18. The Cat Heads - Alice On The Radio - Odds And Ends
19. Absolute Grey - Beginning To See The Light (Live) - Green House: 20th Anniversary Edition
20. Slumber Party - I'm Not Sad - Psychedelicate

A lot of repeat appearances this month (Irma Thomas, Bay Area Funk, Beat Of The Traps), and an abundance of MAGI(C)K from two great and entirely different bands: 1) The Magick Daggers from Portland, who are fronted by ex-Subtonix frontwoman Jessy and deliver a superbly obsessive cover of a Marc Almond song, and 2) The Magik Markers, a ripping little band we saw at the Hemlock a few weekends ago whose name seems to be popping up all over these days.

New playlist coming soon! Keep tuning in.

1. Look Blue Go Purple - 100 Times - Look Blue Go Purple - Compilation
2. Antietam - Chronicle of a Gift Horse - Victory Park
3. Opal - Rocket Machine - Happy Nightmare Baby
4. Terese Taylor - I'm Here - Good Luck Investigationship
5. Rhythm & Noise - Filament In Strata - Chasm's Accord
6. Patti Smith - Are You Experienced? - Twelve
7. MC5 - Looking At You - The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5
8. Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side - Time Is On My Side
9. Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Rawlinson End - Let's Make Up and Be Friendly
10. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista!
11. Mark Stewart and the Maffia - The Paranoia of Power - Learning to Cope with Cowardice
12. Magick Daggers - Empty Eyes - Black Diamonds EP
13. Josef K - Endless Soul - Entomology
14. Rod & the MSR Singers - Beat Of The Traps - The American Song-poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood And Brush
15. The Pretty Things - L.S.D. - Get The Picture?
16. Paul Revere & The Raiders - Good Thing - Greatest Hits
17. Magik Markers - Four/The Ballad Of Harry Angstrom - Boss
18. Suicide - Ghost Rider - Suicide
19. The Slits - Improperly Dressed - Return Of The Giant Slits
20. Project Soul - Ebony - Bay Area Funk 2

Another month, another chart.

This time around, Sandie Shaw races to the top with a track off this great compilation Mark Z burned for me. Mark has a theory about this song that it's actually a response to the Beatles' "Run For Your Life", and he may well be right, judging by both the urgent pace of the music and the lyrics which describe the singer pursued by a possessive, dangerous stalker, "so I must run!" Wonder if John Lennon ever heard this one.

Coming up close behind is a great Le Tigre track from a few years back that rants spectacularly about then-mayor Giuliani and the police killing of Amadou Diallo. The ending is staggering: they simply count to 41 and stop dead. Worth revisiting in light of the current presidential campaign.

Elsewhere, we've got lust, romance, nostalgia, dread, and pure joyful noise. We also have a tune from the new Mekons album. (We have our will-call tickets for tonight!) We have a nice showing from Pocket Shelley, who we saw open for Terese Taylor at the El Rio a couple months back. And welcome to the charts the Creeple People, whose 1993 demo cassette I recently found and dusted off. A great San Jose garage punk band led by my oldest friend and childhood next door neighbor. GEORGE GALVAS, WHERE ARE YOU? Get in touch, please.

1. Sandie Shaw - Run - The EP Collection
2. Le Tigre - Bang! Bang! - From the Desk of Mr. Lady
3. The Missing Links - You're Driving Me Insane - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 3
4. Sharon Cheslow & Coterie Exchange - Fatigue Creep & Dynamic Fracture
5. Pocket Shelley - Acid Orange - Small Illuminations in a Darkening Sky
6. New York Dolls - Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls
7. Eric's Trip - Secret For Julie - Love Tara
8. The Fall - Scenario - Reformation Post T.L.C.
9. The Beastie Boys - Something's Got To Give - The Sounds Of Science (Disc 1)
10. Sonic Youth - Fire Engine Dream - Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities
11. Rob K - Max Fish - The End Of The Earth
12. Love - Discharged - Out Here
13. The Bonzo Dog Band - Slush - Let's Make Up and Be Friendly
14. X-tal - Mark Time - Who Owns Our Dreams
15. The Chills - Flame Thrower - Kaleidoscope World
16. Creeple People - As Good As Gone - 4/93 Demo
17. African Head Charge - What A Wonderful Day - Pay It All Back
18. The Mekons - Dickie Chalkie And Nobby - Natural
19. Del Rey & The Sun Kings - Join Us!...Brothers! - Battleship Potemkin
20. The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake - The Darlings Of Wapping Wharf Launderette

We are still here, and more inspired than ever! Thank you, faithful listeners.

Lots of soul on the chart this month. That's good...you can't have enough soul. We'll find some more special goodies to add to our playlist. I'd definitely like to hear some more volumes of the "Eccentric Soul" series, as volume 6 is pretty damn amazing. Where have the Moovers been all my life?

The charts are topped by one of my top 10 Stones songs ever, a masterpiece of minimalism: "Uh, where am I at?" We were inspired to add Sarah Dougher's funny tribute to the late Lady Bird Johnson from her late 90s band the Lookers, and you fine people voted it up to number 3. I saw the Lookers at the Berkeley YWCA in 1997, opening for the Crabs. It was a brilliant show. There was this period when the YWCA was putting on some excellent twee indie type gigs...I also saw this band called Flake Music there, who you may now know as the Shins. They were OK.

Let's give a hand to our friend, Contractions guitarist Mary Kelley, who hit number 7 with a track from her just-released live solo CD, a mind-blowing cover of "Bali Ha'i". Mary shared the bill with us at my 50th birthday show at the Undisclosed Location last July. She's a brilliant musician and a very funny, likeable performer. Go see her.

Our fondly-remembered friends from the turn of the century, the Subtonix, return to the charts with their definitive single, "Trophy", which still sounds as fantastic as it did when it came out. And Syd Barrett gets props again in the form of a great cut from a Pink Floyd BBC session...I love this alternate version of "Scream Thy Last Scream" where Syd sings with real feeling and the band drifts into this great abstract musical interlude. MUCH better than the aborted studio recording.

And thank you to whoever voted for the X-tal track, which didn't make the cut for WHO OWNS OUR DREAMS? because I thought the Newt Gingrich references were too dated, but it certainly kicks up some dust.

Also: "I Want In" by the Avengers shows up two months in a row. Feel those pheromones.

Keep listening and voting!

1. The Rolling Stones - Stoned - The Rolling Stones Singles Collection: The London Years
2. The Moovers - Someone to Fulfill My Needs - Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label
3. The Lookers - Ladybird - In Clover
4. The Go-Betweens - Was There Anything I Could Do? - 16 Lovers Lane
5. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Feel So Good (Previously Unreleased) - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
6. Pink Floyd - Scream Thy Last Scream (BBC) - Have You Got It Yet?
7. Mary Kelley - Bali Ha'i - Harrogate
8. Lyn Collins - You Can't Love Me If You Don't Respect Me - Mojo - James Brown's Funky Summer
9. Kevin Ayers & the Whole World - May I? - Shooting at the Moon
10. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire - Mojo: Dylan Covered
11. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - On Tomorrow (Bonus) - Safe as Milk
12. Big Youth - S 90 Skank - Trojan D.J. Box Set
13. 20 Minute Loop - I'll Never Forget You - Yawn + House = Explosion
14. The Avengers - I Want In - Died for Your Sins
15. The Adverts - We Who Wait - The Punk Singles Collection
16. Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go - Curtis
17. X-tal - A Lemon Song - The Conqueror Worm
18. Irma Thomas - Time Is On My Side - Time Is On My Side
19. The Subtonix - Trophy - 7" single
20. The Saints - Wild About You - (I'm) Stranded

We're not dead yet! Thanks for tuning in. And thanks for the votes for X-tal! Nice surprise.

I wonder who is weirder: us, for putting this of all possible Clash songs on our playlist, or you all for voting it up to number 2! We aim to shock, delight and go against all conventional wisdom here at Ear Candle Radio. Also: a hat tip to Danny Scherr for his first Top 20 showing. It was good to see you at the party.

1. X-tal - Windbags - Who Owns Our Dreams
2. The Clash - Mensforth Hill - Sandinista!
3. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Feel So Good (Previously Unreleased) - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
4. Jefferson Airplane - The House At Pooneil Corners - Crown of Creation
5. The Mekons - This Funeral Is For The Wrong Corpse (Full Version) - I Have Been To Heaven And Back: Hen's Teeth... Vol.
6. The Beastie Boys - Something's Got To Give - The Sounds Of Science
7. Tarika - Sonegaly (Senegalese) - Son Egal
8. ESG - Ufo - A South Bronx Story
9. Danny Scherr - Too Far Down - Richmond Special
10. Bert Jansch - Angie (Live) 1964 - Bert Jansch
11. The Avengers - I Want In - Died for Your Sins
12. New York Dolls - Looking For A Kiss - New York Dolls
13. Mudhoney - On The Move - Under a Billion Suns
14. David Bowie - Always Crashing In The Same Car - Low
15. Bright Eyes - Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed) - Cassadaga
16. Val Esway - Birthday - Pretend To Believe
17. Rod & the MSR Singers - Beat Of The Traps - The American Song-poem Anthology: Do You Know The Difference Between Big Wood And Brush
18. Junior Kimbrough & The Soul Blues Boys - Crawling King Snake - Mojo Stooges Jukebox
19. Heartless Bastards - All This Time - All This Time
20. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Moon, Turn The Tides...Gently, Gently - Electric Ladyland

(Terese Taylor just wrote us about the passing of her friend and mentor. 50 is way too young to leave this world!)

this is an article written about a buffalo artist/musician who deeply influenced me who just passed away at 50 from cancer.

there're some music clips notably 'potatoes and corn' by one of his bands 'electroman' that'll give you an idea of the scene i came from. i still have a 45 of 'the fems' which was the punk band in buffalo he founded and the bass player was my boyfriend. mark wasn't famous like ani difranco or the googoo dolls but they all knew him and were influenced by him as well. he showed me how to plug in my guitar, turn my amp on and he even tuned my guitar at my first ever show and said,"give 'em hell kid."

Death of a Dream: Mark Freeland 1957-2007
by Jamie Moses

The only question that remains is how come a guy this talented, entertaining and full of ideas isn’t as rich and famous as, say, Prince?

-Dale Anderson (Artvoice, 1996)

Mark Freeland, one of Buffalo’s most enduring personalities of the past four decades, passed away last week. For many Freeland was as integral to Buffalo as Jimmy Griffin, Rick James, Christine Baranski, Jim Kelly or Michael Bennett. His story is worth telling for the simple fact that it reflects a great deal about our city and our lives.

There is an old expression, “the child is father to the man,” and this recommendation letter written in 1969 by an elementary school teacher about a 12-year-old named Mark Freeland forecasts much:

Mark is the most impressive individual I have ever known. He is a gifted student who is intellectually superior, not only to his peers, but to those two and three years older than he. However, his intellect is not his greatest asset. Mark is, more importantly, an individual of keen sensibilities with a remarkable sense of aesthetics. He’s acted in plays, movies, written brilliant papers, makes posters, sculpts, and he makes various handcrafts--which he displayed at the Allentown Art Festival.

Mark has a voracious appetite for books and has read, for example, Sophocles, Tolkien, and Richard Brautigan. Mark’s reading has probably been the most important factor in liberating his sensibilities.

His taste in music is all embracing. He loves the Beatles and Stones, but his special interest is lies in progressive and underground rock and he can rattle off the genealogy more groups than I could ever list. He is, then, somewhat of an armchair rock historian.

I feel very strongly that Mark is his own person, a true individual. Group pressure from his peers has not moved him to cut his hair or to abandon his books for a baseball bat. Mark has his own mind and works very hard to attain his goals.

I recommend Mark Freeland as responsible person, an intelligent, mature individual and as a brother of kindred interests.

Sincerely,

E. Douglas Pratt

English Teacher

St. Paul’s School

Mr. Pratt was right to be impressed. Between 1968 and 1973, Freeland appeared in five educational films by Fred Keller, Jr., and one film, Iceman, was shown at Cannes Film Festival in 1972. A Courier-Express news-clip from 1969, featured a photo of “Folk singers playing at youth mass” in St. Paul’s church in Kenmore; a young Mark Freeland is playing guitar. And in that same year, Freeland, age 12, appeared in the play A Thousand Clowns at the Courtyard Theatre--an auspicious beginning, to be sure.

By the time Freeland attended Kenmore West High School, his creativity was on full throttle, and Kenmore West High was fertile ground. Soon the 14-year-old Freeland was forming the progressive/theatrical band Pegasus--progressive music was hot, Woodstock music was not. Freeland was already certain that he was destined for stardom. It helped that at Kenmore West they allowed bands to play in assembly.

Freeland described the 1970s Kenmore scene in a 1996 story in the Buffalo News:

“We competed against each other with amps, not footballs. The whole school was in a band. The only ones who weren’t in bands were the people carrying the amps, or driving the vans to go put up posters,” said Freeland. “At Kenmore, kids would gather for assembly, sit down in the auditorium and watch Pegasus cover ‘Thick As a Brick’ for 45 minutes. The whole album! Absolutely perfect. That was fourth period, to us.”

Guitarist Bob Mancuso said, “It was nothing at all to go into McVan’s and see Pegasus doing this note-perfect rendition of Genesis’ ‘The Lamb Lies Down.’ Freeland would have the Peter Gabriel daisy head on, the whole bit.

“By the end [of the decade] you’d go into the cafeteria and it’d be…maybe Bill Manspeaker [Green Jelly] sitting there wearing a cowboy uniform or a cop suit with little cap guns, but it was all essentially one vibe…everyone was just very connected.”

Bassist Billy Sheehan remembers Kenmore as a hotbed of rock competition. “It was almost like the Jets and the Sharks. Only they weren’t gangs. They were rival bands.”

There were also plenty of places for bands to play in Kenmore--school dances, park concerts and public halls. And there were lots of bars, too.

When Mark finished high school around 1975, he formed a close bond with a quixotic young man from New York City who appeared briefly in Buffalo and became the singer for a short-lived Kenmore band named Astro Boy. The two spent several months going to concerts together, always finding their way into the dressing rooms or hotel rooms of acts like the New York Dolls, Mott the Hoople, Alice Cooper, Humble Pie, Genesis with Peter Gabriel, Aerosmith, etc. During these close encounters, Freeland hungrily sucked in the creative energy of these artists and always walked away with a thousand new ideas and thousand new reasons to believe that he was just like them, just as creative and just as destined to be a world star. It was nothing less than intoxicating to be around such sublime artistic confidence. One night at McVan’s his friend did a show that involved a custom-made, four-foot, blue neon dildo, and after the show one of the Kenmore bandmates secretly smashed the neon light because, as he later admitted, the singer was getting too much attention. The next day Freeland’s friend--that was me--was kicked out of the band and left town.

Freeland was stunned at the provincialism of the Astro Boy musicians, and he dug in with even greater determination alongside the more adventurous and sophisticated members of his own band, Pegasus, writing rock operas, creating wild costumes and screen projections, and delivering elaborate performances, mostly at McVan’s on Niagara Street.

The very elaborateness and depth of Pegasus’ creativity probably doomed the band. If you’ve ever been in a band, you know what an incredible chore it is once you begin adding lights, projections, sculpted art pieces, costumes, etc. I suppose it’s quite manageable if you’ve got the time, the budget, and the large stage given to someone like Alice Cooper or Genesis or the Rolling Stones, but when you’re a destitute band playing in a little bar and trying to put on a full-tilt rock performance…well, it’s enough to drive one to drink. A lot.

By 1980 Pegasus was long gone, but an unusual thing followed. A new band, a trio called Pegasonics, made of former Pegasus players Freeland, Chuck Cavanaugh and Steve Trecasse, signed themselves to their own record label, Trelaine Records.

As Freeland told the late Tim Switala, “Chuck [Cavanaugh] made a calendar that had marked on it what you had to do, every day and every night. Chuck didn’t sleep or eat; Trelaine didn’t either. Cavanaugh told me, ‘If you do everything on this calendar, I’ll get you famous. But if you screw me up, then its your fault.’”

Switala observed that Freeland’s use of the word “famous” was decidedly confident, a confidence born from the past nine years of performing. “Those years,” wrote Switala, “not only represented a period for working towards an uncompromising degree of fame, but delivered numerous original compositions at a time when the cover song syndrome in Buffalo was reaching an apex of musical self-destruction.”

The Pegasonics’ first record release on the Trelaine label was New New York, and rock critic Kevin Hosey declared it “the best album recorded yet by any local group, and yes, that includes Talas.”

That band eventually folded as well, and the coming years saw the creation of Electroman and of Freeland’s long and relentless career with the Fems. Both of those bands are of such well known stature and local fame that I’m not going to go into detail about them, other than to point out that the Fems were as good as any punk band ever (with the exception of punk’s poet laureate Patti Smith and godfathers the New York Dolls), and I was there to watch all the originators in the 1970s in New York City. Electroman, quite simply, should have been world famous. As Billy Sheehan once told Freeland, “You might be the only musician I know that might be cooler than me…and you’re totally undiscovered.”

Over the years, Freeland created and played in so many bands and with so many musicians that it would be too challenging to adequately discuss them all: Pegasus, Pegasonics, Electroman, Erectronics, Killik, Brian One, Dolly Dew and the Weiner, Pageantry of Weens, the Fems, the Jamie Moses Band, Industry of Life Divine, Our Daughter’s Wedding and probably a lot more. He was tireless in his pursuit of music.

In a 1987 Buffalo News interview with former music critic Dale Anderson, Mark asked, “When they’re testing kids in school, which one do you think is going to score higher--the kid who spends hours working on one painting or the kid who turns out a hundred things in ten minutes?”

Anderson, observing Mark’s creative prodigiousness, concluded that there was no question in Freeland’s mind as to which is the mark of a genius.

His music transected every approach imaginable, from synthesizer-induced prog to minimalism, punk, rap, hip-hop, third world beats, blues, jazz and rock-a-billy. Mark simply loved music, all music. He loved to hear it; he loved to play it. The list of musicians he played with is also far too extensive to include here, and I hope none are offended because they’re not mentioned. I know he loved you all.

I do think there are one or two intersections worth mentioning.

In the 1980s Freeland went to New York City to play with Our Daughter’s Wedding. Joining Our Daughter’s Wedding, in my opinion, was a big mistake. They may have been living in New York City, and they may have been signed to EMI records, but it was a band of losers going nowhere who didn’t deserve to have Mark Freeland in their lineup. Instead of arriving in New York powered by a musical wave of his own creation, Mark got swallowed up by these sodpots. And while there were occasional bright spots, like meeting Psychedelic Furs saxophonist Mars Williams and recording with Japanese rock star Motoharu Sano, rather than being celebrated in New York’s trendy clubs, Freeland and ODW were more likely to be tossed out. He drank heavily and was so broke he had to collect empty bottles to buy beer. Finally, I think, his brother came and rescued him. I tell you this knowing that Freeland, more than anyone, never hesitated to speak about his vulnerabilities or even his moments of humiliation.

Freeland, who stopped drinking in 1995, said afterwards, “I apologize to people for having to see me drunk. Now when people meet me, they meet the real me. I’m not saying that every time I was drunk I got into trouble, but every time I got into trouble I was drunk.”

As Mark entered the late 1980s and 1990s, he had some remarkable successes with his music, most notably Electroman’s Adventures in the Solar System, which was produced with the help of his friend Dave Elder. It was the Buffalo News pick for Best Album of the Year, beating out Ani DiFranco’s disc Puddle Dive. Mark also had gave some stellar performances in both the Fems and Electroman, but it seemed like each show was taking more and more out of him. Although his stage shows were fun, he no longer was sending signals that he expected to be the next David Bowie. In fact, he spent a number of years playing a weekly gig on Elmwood Avenue where he quietly sat to the side and tapped percussion, usually with his eyes closed--happy just to be with some friends and making stress-fress music.

But there was a new star burning inside him. He realized that he would be able to paint until he was an old, old man, and he loved painting as much as he loved playing music. The late 1980s saw him create almost a dozen wall murals all over town, some as large at 100 feet long. He traveled to California briefly to pursue an art career, but quickly found out there is no art in California other than what God and Hollywood make. But his art was good, it was great; it was so Freeland, so original.

Mark lived by one straightforward code his entire life: If you want to do something significant, do something original, something different. Anyone he respected lived by that code, whether they were musicians like Elvis, Bowie, Hendrix, the New York Dolls, Patti Smith, the Velvet Underground, John Coltrane, the Sex Pistols, Peter Gabriel, Miles Davis or Bob Dylan, or visual artists like Dali, Van Gogh, Pollock, Seurat, Duchamp, Basquiat or Picasso. He could appreciate James Joyce and Keith Haring, as long as they confirmed his belief that to be an artist you must be original, and be original again, and then continue to be original.

Buffalo has nurtured many talented musicians who achieved fame, from Harold Arlen to Rick James, Spyro Gyra to Grover Washington, 10,000 Maniacs to Ani DiFranco, the Goo Goo Dolls to Tommy Tedesco, Billy Sheehan and many others. Were they more talented than Freeland? Not really, not if creativity is the measure. Was he more talented? It would be in poor taste to say that, and in fact Freeland was a fervent fan of many of those artists.

But the difference between them is not that difficult to understand. With the exception of Rick James, all those listed above played it safe. Yes, they worked hard, struggled and persevered, but they steadfastly remained safely within the bounds of the music industry they studied so tirelessly until they finally cracked the combination that unlocked the door to success. One might do a little tattoo here or a piercing there, a streak of color or a dye job of their perfectly calculated hairdo, but nothing too radical, nothing that might not “sell.” Freeland was incapable of behaving that way. For him it was necessary always to reach farther, to be more outrageous, to dream up the unthinkable, to surprise, to shock and to affirm relentlessly his own sense of genius. It was always about the art, the performance, the immediate fans, and never about the business. Freeland believed that someday someone would recognize his gift and take care of all the business tasks needed to propel him to stardom. “The guy who finally gets to market my brain is going to be a millionaire,” he once said.

But Freeland’s “guy” never showed up. And sadly, some of those whose success he inspired left him behind as well. For example, a 1994 interview in Xtreme Magazine asked Johnny Rzeznick of the Goo Goo Dolls about the music scene between 1979 and 1984. “Those guys,” said Johnny, “especially Mark Freeland, Kent Weber and Dave Kane. They’ve all been working so hard. Freeland kills me. He is a bigger rock star than I will ever be. I love that guy because he’s everything a rock star is supposed to be. Everything is complete excess. Those were the guys who really taught me a lot of what I know.”

But once Johnny was comfortably ensconced in Los Angeles he seemed to forget. After Johnny said publicly many times that he “really should” purchase some Freeland artwork, a message was sent to him in LA through a mutual friend that some artwork could simply be chosen and sent to him. The return message was “Okay, send it to the House of Blues” because the Goo Goo Dolls were doing a show there.

So the Albright-Knox Art Gallery packaged an enormous crate with four wonderful paintings, including a portrait of Vincent Gallo that had been an Artvoice cover, and sent them to the House of Blues in LA. Mark included a humble letter in the package thanking Johnny and laying out his strategy to get his art into the hands of some celebrities as a way of increasing interest in his work, and hopefully increasing their value. A member of R.E.M. had just recently purchased a piece. It’s a known fact that collectors attract other collectors.

Also included in the shipment was an invoice. It was never paid. At first Johnny said he never received the paintings, then it was reported he’d said he had received them but that his manager would have to take care of paying for them. Who knows what’s true? Maybe he has them, maybe he doesn’t. But even if he didn’t ever get the paintings, would it have been too much for Buffalo’s mult-platinum recording artist to say, “You know what, Mark, I never got the paintings, but why don’t you send me some others and I’ll gladly buy those.”

Even when Mark’s close friend Jon Simon helped him to get an entire room in an exhibition at the Albright-Knox’s “Rockin’ at the Knox 2005,” Mark’s brilliant show was being completely marginalized in the press, who seemed only interested in Robby Takac’s involvement in the concert/exhibition. It’s not Robby’s fault how the press behaves--in fact, Robby (and also Billy Sheehan) contributed to Freeland’s recording efforts over the years.

To his credit, Freeland never let these slights bother him as much as they bothered those who cared about him. He just moved on to the next painting. His sentiments were perhaps best expressed in a conversation with former Artvoice arts editor Elizabeth Licata. He told Licata that on Happy Days, Fonzie can be found each morning fixing the Cunningham’s family car for free. That was Fonzie’s art, according to Freeland. And “real artists,” said Freeland, “never do it for anything but an inexplicable drive to do it.”

On his 50th birthday Mark gathered a few close friends at his house. With his life drawing to a close, he decided finally to reveal to those he loved what he’d been enduring privately for so long: months of surgeries, chemotherapy and other struggles associated with cancer. It was a shock to see him, thinned to the bones, clinging to the arms of an easy chair and able to speak only in a low whisper. Friends leaned in close to hear him whisper in their ears. His eyes were remarkably bright as he surveyed the room, drinking in the emotions of the friends that surrounded him. He looked quite at peace with himself, and perhaps for the first time in his life, at peace with the fact he was not going to be a world star; for better or worse, he was going to pass away quietly in Buffalo, New York, and all that he’d done over so many years, he had done for Buffalo. And that was all right.

A few days afterward, he was able to shuffle a bit around the kitchen whispering to Carla, and he told her he realized that everything in life came down to one word: love.

Love was not something Mark Freeland ever lacked; he gave it freely and he received it from all who knew him. After he passed away in his sleep on June 14, 2007, hundreds came over the next few days to give homage to the champion for whom they had rooted for so long. Musicians, photographers, music writers, painters, fans and friends came from as far away as California and from as far in the past as Mark’s childhood years.

Yesterday I went to see Carla and picked up a small blue canvas suitcase from her--a suitcase that held the photos, news clippings, poems, music and the dreams of Mark Freeland. It was all that was left, tucked gently under my arm. Mark Freeland has gone from us forever, his fragile bones and blue eyes sunk now into the moist soil of mother earth. There will be no new Freeland songs, or performances, or paintings. We have lost someone very precious. So bury your face deep in your hands, for now is the time for tears.

Call or fax your senators and tell them to support the Internet Radio Equality Act if you want these fine sounds to continue!

1. Sonic Youth - Fire Engine Dream - Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities
2. Joe Rut - Der Uber Monkey - Stop Gap Measure
3. Bright Eyes - Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed) - Cassadaga
4. Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - How Will We Know? - Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul
5. Tall Dwarfs - Ozone - Weeville
6. The Mountain Goats - Jenny - All Hail West Texas
7. The Mekons - Hello Cruel World - Edge of the World
8. The Kingston Trio - The Merry Minuet - Kingston Trio/From The Hungry I
9. Rob K - Those Things - The End Of The Earth
10. Patti Smith - Higher Learning - Land (1975-2002)
11. J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers - We Are Alive - Freedom Fried
12. The Mothers Of Invention - Project X - Uncle Meat
13. Mecca Normal - The Caribou & The Oil Pipeline - The Observer
14. Eux Autres - Ecoutez Bien - Hell Is Eux Autres
15. David Bowie - Always Crashing In The Same Car - Low
16. Simon & Garfunkel - Save The Life Of My Child - Bookends
17. Loretta Lynch - New World - Concrete & Ether
18. Bob Dylan - Rolling Thunder Revue - Hurricane [Live] - Bob Dylan Live 1975 (The Bootleg Series Volume 5)
19. Zap Mama - Babanzele - Adventures in Afropea, Vol. 1
20. Yoko Ono - Will You Touch Me - Fly

but this line-up comes out of J Neo's musical past.

If you cannot make it to Amoeba, come visit our websites:

http://www.earcandleproductions.com/JNMCP.swf

http://www.teresetaylor.com

we have several terese taylor videos up and here is her electric set.:

http://www.earcandleproductions.com/Sweet.mov

Mary Kelly debuts her new stuff, but you can learn about
more of her work on The Contractions website:

http://www.thecontractions.com

You can find some of their mp3's and .mov's there, I bet.


respondez s'il vous plait..

Last year we taped Madame P at one of the AUL shows.

I just uploaded one edit.

Here are four formats for ya.

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Let me know if these links work, will you?

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1. Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns - Fanfare In The Garden
2. Petra Haden - I Can See for Miles - Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out
3. Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys! - Marcus Leid - Transatlantic Trips
4. WIRE - Map Ref. 41 Degrees North, 93 Degrees West - 154
5. Delta 5 - Try - Singles & Sessions 1979-81
6. Project Soul - Ebony - Bay Area Funk 2
7. Peter B & Friends - Kirtan Got Soul - Peter B's Birthday Party
8. Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity - This Wheel's On Fire - Mojo: Dylan Covered
9. Dicks - No Fuckin' War - Dicks: 1980-1986
10. Bikini Kill - Carnival - The CD Version of the First Two Records
11. The Dry Spells - The Village - The Dry Spells
12. The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - Come Down
13. John Lennon - Serve Yourself - Wonsaponatime
14. Rob K - Those Things - The End Of The Earth
15. Eux Autres - Ecoutez Bien - Hell Is Eux Autres
16. X-tal - Mark Time - Who Owns Our Dreams
17. The Beatles - Dizzy Miss Lizzy - Help!
18. Ill Ease - Sick Groove - Circle Line Tours
19. Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - South Carolina (Barnwell) [Live] - From South Africa To South Carolina
20. Bert Jansch - Angie (Live) 1964 - Bert Jansch

We're still here, but for how much longer?

You may or may not have heard the news, but the Copyright Royalty Board recently set new royalty rates for internet radio that not only far exceed those for other forms of broadcasting, but are also retroactive through the beginning of 2006, and will be measured PER LISTENER. Sounds like a great windfall for the artist, right? Wrong. This decision threatens the very existence of online radio stations like ours, who play music that mainstream radio will never touch and even college radio may not notice. Thus far, our host, live365.com, has not passed on any rate increases to personal stations like ours, but I'm not counting on this to remain the case unless something changes. (And you should know that if our monthly fee rises above the nearly $60 a month we pay right now, we may have to consider packing it in. We will be directly affected by what goes down in the coming months.)

There is a response rising in the form of a new bill in Congress, the Internet Radio Equality Act, which would set royalty rates for online stations at a level comparable to the rest of the airwaves. Supporters of small broadcasters like ourselves need to educate themselves on what they can do. Check below for some detailed info on all these issues by people more informed and articulate than I am:

http://www.live365.com/choice/

Running this station for the last few years has been a labor of love and a joy for Davis and myself. We have nearly 500 regular listeners now and treating them to our own mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar has been an incredible experience. We have made friends with artists all over the world (a brief tip of the hat to Elevation, Shine Cherries, the Window Shoppers, Stephen Simon, Halcyon High, Sparta Philharmonic, 17 Pygmies, Del Rey and the Sun Kings, and too many more to mention...thank you for sharing your music with us) and we've had the opportunity to share exclusive unreleased music of our own with you all too. We are both artists and broadcasters, and we refuse to accept this divisive strategy by the RIAA that only serves to line their own pockets and keep the unheard music from being heard. So if you've been digging what we do, now is a good time to call your representatives in Congress and support stations like ours.

End of lecture. Time to give you this month's charts, which are topped quite appropriately by "Another Genius Idea From Our Government" from the marvelous new album by Erase Errata. This time out, our top 20 is chock full of great female artists, including double doses of both Terese Taylor and Ut! Thank you all for your ever-fascinating and ever-perceptive votes. We are still putting the finishing touches on our all-new playlist for spring, which includes several of these numbers and much more. Keep listening, and keep internet radio alive. Thank you.

http://www.live365.com/stations/jneomarvin

1. Erase Errata - Another Genius Idea From Our Government - Nightlife
2. Elias & His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes - Tom Hark (1955) - John Peel And Sheila: The Pig's Big 78s: A Beginner's Guide
3. Sleater-Kinney - Words and Guitar - Dig Me Out
4. Rob K - Those Things - The End Of The Earth
5. The Experimental Bunnies - Grief - Music From The Integrity Tone Scale
6. The Temptations - Masterpiece - Psychedelic Soul
7. Terese Taylor - Dog Jackson - Good Luck Investigationship
8. Terese Taylor - Call In Sick - Good Luck Investigationship
9. Val Esway - Whiskey Trail - Pretend To Believe
10. Ut - HomeBled - In Gut's House
11. The Celibate Rifles - Bill Bonney Regrets - The Turgid Miasma Of Existence
12. Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys! - Marcus Leid - Transatlantic Trips
13. The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
14. Sharon Cheslow & Coterie Exchange - Fatigue Creep & Dynamic Fracture - Lullabye From The Sky
15. S.H.E. - Outta Reach - Mojo Music Guide Vol. 1 - Instant Garage
16. Twistyfix - Wake The Hammer - Twistyfix
17. The Velvet Underground - European Son (Mono Version) - Velvet Underground & Nico
18. Rhythm & Noise - Filament In Strata - Chasm's Accord
19. Y Pants - That's the Way Boys Are - Y Pants
20. Ut - Evangelist - In Gut's House

1. The Subtonix - Trophy - 7" single
2. MC5 - Looking At You - The Big Bang: The Best of the MC5
3. Kevin Ayers & the Whole World - May I? - Shooting at the Moon
4. De La Soul - Eye Know - 3 Feet High And Rising
5. The Missing Links - You're Driving Me Insane - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 3
6. Love - Gather Round - Out Here
7. It Thing - The Ode - The OTBJBDTAE
8. The Mountain Goats - The Anglo-Saxons - Ghana
9. Wire - Map Ref. 41 Degrees North, 93 Degrees West - 154
10. Vashti Bunyan - Rose Hip November - Just Another Diamond Day
11. Mudhoney - Where Is The Future - Under A Billion Suns
12. Tom Verlaine - Saucer Crash - Warm and Cool
13. The Window Shoppers - So What Do You Think? - Clear Your Dirt
14. The Fall - Boxoctosis - The Real New Fall LP (American Version)
15. Fairport Convention - Percy's Song - Unhalfbricking
16. Chris Knox - What Do We Do With Love? - Beat
17. Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Shakedown - Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 4 (Disc 1)
18. Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire - The Essential Leonard Cohen
19. The Celibate Rifles - Bill Bonney Regrets - The Turgid Miasma Of Existence
20. Sleater-Kinney - Good Things - Call the Doctor

A very interesting chart this month. Both splinter bands of our local heroes the Cat Heads are represented, with the Ex Cat Heads topping the charts with Sam Babbitt's spooky rendition of Frank Kogan's "Waterfall" and It Thing's mood piece "Off The Other End I Was" at number 11.

Former Content Providers guitarist (and ex-housemate of Davis and Neo) Glenn Stevens' charming "Lady V" popped in out of nowhere to sit at number 2, while our own "Ex-Supernova" is at #10. Thanks for the thumbs up, listeners.

I'm glad to see many of our electronic pen pals on here like Elevation, Twistyfix, Shine Cherries, and Sparta Philharmonic, as well as Mezmetic, a CD we actually bought on Haight St, one day from its creator because he seemed like such a cool guy. His music is cool as well, sample-dub trip-hop grooves that stay in your memory. Check out all of these people's myspace pages and hear some great stuff that's too under the radar for even the popular indie magazines to cover. YET.

It's also good to see ex-locals the Brian Jonestown Massacre showing up here. I can't resist a band that swaggers this dreamily. And no, I have not seen the movie Dig; I'm not so sure I want to find reasons to dislike people who make music this great. As it is, Anton Newcombe has some of the best bulletins on myspace, keeping the kids informed and angry about our current sorry state of affairs. I wonder if the next BJM release will have lyrics that reflect Newcombe's current righteous political anger. As it is, noisy garage rock protest is well-represented by a different track from that ubiquitous Neil Young album (the title song this time) and Mudhoney's brilliant "Where Is The Future".

Whew. Keep tuning in and giving us your feedback. We'll be putting together our all-new spring '07 playlist soon.

1. The (Ex) Cat Heads - Waterfall - Our Frisco
2. Glenn Stevens - Lady V - 2002 Demo
3. Elevation - Busstop - Neotext
4. Twistyfix - Wake The Hammer - MP3 single
5. The Go-Betweens - Caroline And I - Bright Yellow Bright Orange
6. Grifters - Last Man Alive - Ain't My Lookout
7. Yo La Tengo - Tighten Up - Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics!
8. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Number 1 Hit Jam - Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective
9. Petra Haden - I Can See for Miles - Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out
10. J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers - Ex-Supernova - What Is Truth?
11. It Thing - Off The Other End I Was - The OTBJBDTJE
12. Antietam - Chronicle of a Gift Horse - Victory Park
13. The Gris Gris - Year zero - For the Season
14. Shine Cherries - Atmosphere - Shine Cherries
15. Neil Young - Living With War - Living With War
16. Flipper - Sacrifice - The Flipper Follies, Austin 1982
17. The Sparta Philharmonic - Paper-Mache Mountains - Paper-Mache Mountains
18. Mudhoney - Where Is The Future - Under A Billion Suns
19. Mezmetic - Bilar De La Noche - A Handful Of Sand (... And A Strange Distant Wave)
20. Liliput/ Kleenex - DC-10 - Liliput/ Kleenex

Hi gang,

Usually, we like to slip new songs into our playlist discreetly and let them be a surprise to our regular listeners, but I have to tip my hat to 17 Pygmies for sending this exquisite package in the mail containing three CDs and a vinyl single (which contained a small ornamental card with directions on where to download the single's songs as mp3s). I have not yet listened to everything, but I'm adding a track each from the new 17 Pygmies album (and if you don't remember 17 Pygmies from the 80s, go to their myspace page and get schooled. They were a classically-tinged band that grew out of Savage Republic and are still doing great music today) and a mind-blowing new score for the Russian silent film Battleship Potemkin by Del Rey and the Sun Kings, a 17 Pygmies side project. Got some other good new stuff too:

"Vakulinchuk Acts" - Del Rey and the Sun Kings
"Water Carry Me" - 17 Pygmies
"Go Lucky" - The Curtains (from their new album...they were great at SMILE a few weeks ago...weird little melodic miniatures like '60s pop filtered through Deerhoof)
"Desserted (sic) Cities Of The Heart - Goofball (Flipper understudy Bruno DeSmartass shreds on an old Cream song)
"Cold Comfort" - Rico Bell (not a new song, but an old favorite from an old friend)

Enjoy, and keep listening.

Ear Candle Radio

A double dose of Cannanes this month! And many other nice things besides. Keep your votes coming, Gentle Listeners.

1. Chris Knox - What Do We Do With Love? - Beat
2. Paul Revere & the Raiders - Melody For An Unknown Girl - Paul Revere & The Raiders - Greatest Hits
3. The Human Expression - Optical Sound - Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era
4. The Cannanes & Steward - Hey Leopard - Communicating at an Unknown Rate
5. Sly & The Family Stone - Babies Makin' Babies - The Essential Sly & The Family Stone
6. Rhythm & Noise - Bilge - Chasm's Accord
7. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox - Colossal Youth
8. Penetration - Silent Community - Moving Targets
9. Marine Girls - Dishonesty - Lazy Ways/Beach Party
10. Kevin Ayers - Oleh Oleh Bandu Bandong - Joy Of A Toy
11. Eric's Trip - Secret For Julie - Love Tara
12. The Stooges - Down On The Street - Fun House
13. The Replacements - Seen Your Video - Let It Be
14. K. McCarty - Golly Gee - Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston
15. Elias & His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes - Tom Hark (1955) - John Peel And Sheila: The Pig's Big 78s: A Beginner's Guide
16. The Cannanes - Japanese Train Station - Living the Dream
17. The Rolling Stones - Shake Your Hips - Exile On Main Street
18. Leonard Cohen - The Guests - The Essential Leonard Cohen
19. Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies - Trans-Europe Express
20. James Brown - I Got The Feelin' - Star Time

Check out our newest recording, a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Democracy" by J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers.

1. Os Mutantes - Ando Meio Desligado - Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes
2. Elevation - Cookie - Neotext
3. Captain Beefheart - Ant Man Bee - Trout Mask Replica
4. The Gossip - Keeping You Alive - Standing In The Way Of Control
5. The Window Shoppers - So What Do You Think? - Clear Your Dirt
6. The Go-Betweens - Apology Accepted - Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express
7. Suicide - Girl - Suicide
8. Sheila Chandra - Speaking in Tongues II - Weaving My Ancestors' Voices
9. Richard & Mimi Farina - V - Celebrations for a Grey Day
10. Lois - Strumpet - Strumpet
11. Lipsey Mountain Spring Band - Money Is King - Cayman Cowboy
12. Zap Mama - Babanzele - Adventures in Afropea, Vol. 1
13. Terese Taylor - Dog Jackson - Good Luck Investigationship
14. Sly & The Family Stone - Babies Makin' Babies - The Essential Sly & The Family Stone (Disc 2)
15. Liliput/ Kleenex - DC-10 - Liliput/ Kleenex
16. J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers - Late Night - Covers Session
17. Ali Akbar Khan - India Blue (Dhani) - Garden of Dreams
18. Rudimentary Peni - Inside - Death Church
19. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox - Colossal Youth
20. Lee Scratch Perry - People Funny Boy - Son Of Thunder

Rob K's rocking tribute to his brilliant missus ("She'd never steal from me/It's hard to believe of a girl from New Jersey!") is barely edged out by a T Rex classic for the top spot.

The Dry Spells, Sparta Philharmonic and Window Shoppers are all bands who sent CDs to us for our station. And our mysterious yet wise listeners responded positively to their music. How about that? It pays to participate. Congratulations.

Two nice showings by the Fall. Since we've just moved, "My New House" has a particularly sweet resonance for me now.

Keep logging in and submitting your ratings at
http://www.live365.com/stations/jneomarvin
as we continue to tweak our playlist for your listening pleasure.

1. T. Rex - Jeepster - Electric Warrior
2. Rob K - 5 Yamas - The End Of The Earth
3. The Dry Spells - The Village - The Dry Spells
4. The Sparta Philharmonic - Paper-Mache Mountains - Paper-Mache Mountains
5. Grifters - Last Man Alive - Ain't My Lookout
6. Ut - HomeBled - In Gut's House
7. The Beach Boys - Diamond Head - Friends/20-20
8. Vashti Bunyan - Rose Hip November - Just Another Diamond Day
9. The Big Boys - What's the Word? - The Fat Elvis
10. Love - Gather Round - Out Here
11. The Fall - My New House - This Nation's Saving Grace
12. The Experimental Bunnies - Normal - Integrity Tone Scale
13. Kaleidoscope - Keep Your Mind Open - Blues From Baghdad - The Very Best Of Kaleidoscope
14. The Fall - What About Us - The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004
15. Captain Sensible - The Man Who's Gotten Everything?/Our Souls To You - A Sides (Part One 1979-1982)
16. Eight Lamas From Drepung - Invoking The Spirit Of Kindness Though Sound - Tibetan Sacred Temple Music
17. The Window Shoppers - So What Do You Think? - Clear Your Dirt
18. Subtonix - Ashtray Girl - Tarantism
19. Mecca Normal - 1922 - The Observer
20. Linda Smith - You Changed - Emily's House

Some nice words from DJ Nylon of Pirate Cat Radio:

J. Neo Marvin and the Content Providers - What happens when a Punk grows up, grows old and chronicles the lives of the people and the world around him? J. Neo Marvin. This is music that tells stories good and bad. Not folky at all but matter of fact. Gone are the cranked up amps, the wailing drums and wall of angst ridden youth. What is left is a lifetime of living, sometimes out living your friends, but optimism abounds.

He (or she?) also offers a good review of our pal Terese Taylor:

Terese Taylor - She catagorizes her music as "Folk", but don´t expect to hear strumming on an acoustic guitar and mandolins and violins all day long. This body of work is a fuzzed out rocking jaunt into the backyards and back woods that is at times dark and beautiful. Terese´s voice can be delicate enought to convey loss, longing and hurt, but never do you get the sense that it overwhelms. In fact these songs are a testiment to someone who survived.

(Antietam and the Soft Machine continue to linger from September. You guys have such good and unique taste. Thanks!)

1. Antietam - 509 - Scraps
2. Keith Tippett Group - This is what happens - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening
3. J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers - Late Night - Covers Session
4. Soft Machine - Moon In June - The Peel Sessions
5. Can - Bring Me Coffee Or Tea - Tago Mago
6. Ut - HomeBled - In Gut's House
7. The Adverts - Safety In Numbers - The Punk Singles Collection
8. The Zeros - They Say That (Everything's Alright) - Don't Push Me Around
9. Citizens Here and Abroad - Enter the Elevator - Ghosts of Tables and Chairs
10. The Crabs - Sand and Sea - The Sand & Sea
11. Linda Smith - You Changed - Emily's House
12. K. McCarty - Golly Gee - Dead Dog's Eyeball: Songs of Daniel Johnston
13. Incredible String Band - Astral Plane Theme - U
14. Dangerous Birds - Smile On Your Face - Typical Girls Bootleg CD Vol. 2
15. John Fahey - Sligo Mud - The Best of John Fahey, Vol. 2: 1964-1983
16. Harry Belafonte - The Jack-Ass Song - Calypso
17. Braille Stars - Dream Totem - Golden Dream
18. Bessie Smith - Trombone Cholly - Bessie Smith: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3
19. Subtonix - Ashtray Girl - Tarantism
20. Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns - Fanfare In The Garden (disc one)

We were offline for a week, so it's late! But here it is for your enjoyment:

1. Ana Da Silva - Climbing Walls - The Lighthouse
2. Neil Young - Let's Impeach the President - Living With War (Gee, you guys aren't tired of this yet, are you? Sign of the times indeed...)
3. Antietam - 509 - Scraps
4. Eux Autres - The Sundance Kid - Hell Is Eux Autres
5. Mini-Jacket - Shapeshifted - The Band June - Demo
6. Systemwide featuring Dr. Israel - Crisis Time - Pure And Applied
7. Soft Machine - Moon In June - The Peel Sessions
8. Bonzo Dog Band - Rhinocratic Oaths - The Best of the Bonzo Dog Band
9. Ninety Nine - Mesopotamia - 180 Degrees
10. Captain Sensible - The Man Who's Gotten Everything?/Our Souls To You - A Sides (Part One 1979-1982)
11. Automat - Third Beach - Happy Trials
12. Peter B & Friends - Kirtan Got Soul - Peter B's Birthday Party
13. The Fall - Bill is Dead - Extricate
14. The Blame - Wagons And Boys - The Blame
15. Shine Cherries - Atmosphere - Shine Cherries
16. J Neo Marvin and The Content Providers - Primate House (1731 11th Ave.) - What is Truth?
17. Mutants - Furniture - Fun Terminal
18. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox - Colossal Youth
19. Spurs of the Moment - Mom - Various Artists: Guess Who This Is
20. Sun Ra and His Astro Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra - Images - Space Is the Place

1. Scrawl - Don't We Always Get There? - nature film
2. Girls at Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast - Pleasure
3. Delta 5 - Shadow - Singles & Sessions 1979-81
4. Petra Haden - I Can See for Miles - Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out
5. Prolapse - Zen Nun Deb - Backsaturday
6. The Rolling Stones - Shake Your Hips - Exile On Main Street
7. Booker T. & the MG's - Hang 'Em High - The Very Best of Booker T. & the MG's
8. Au Pairs - Armagh - Equal But Different - BBC Sessions 1979-1981
9. Tall Dwarfs - Nothing's Going To Happen - The Short And Sick Of It
10. Yo La Tengo - Tighten Up - Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics!
11. Various Artists - Inspector J From Delhi - Bombay The Hard Way: Guns, Cars And Sitars
12. Soft Machine - Moon In June - The Peel Sessions
13. Tom Verlaine - Saucer Crash - Warm and Cool
14. Dennis Brown - I Am The Conqueror - Money in My Pocket: Anthology 1970-1995
15. Cat Power - Willie - The Greatest
16. Bettie Black - I'm Nobody's Dog - Mega
17. Barbara Manning and the Go-Luckys! - Marcus Leid - Transatlantic Trips
18. Crashing Dreams - Paint The Town Red - Minimum To Exist
19. The Window Shoppers - This Government - Clear Your Dirt
20. Love - Mushroom Clouds - Love

1. Neil Young - Let's Impeach the President - Living With War
2. Elevation - Busstop - Neotext
3. Sleater-Kinney - Entertain - The Woods
4. J Neo Marvin & the Content Providers - You Of All People - Freedom Fried
5. The Monkees - Zor And Zam - The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees
6. Blue Orchids - A Year With No Head - The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain)
7. Terese Taylor - Chief Letters - Clothes We Wore Before We Were Married
8. Kevin Ayers - Religious Experience (Singing a Song in the Morning) Featuring Syd Barrett - Joy Of A Toy
9. Stereolab - High Expectation - Switched On
10. X-tal - Long Dark Night - Who Owns Our Dreams?
11. Television Personalities - I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
12. Shine Cherries - Mosquito - Shine Cherries
13. Penetration - Silent Community - Moving Targets
14. Mecca Normal - 1922 - The Observer
15. Ana Da Silva - Climbing Walls - The Lighthouse
16. Love Is Chemicals - Misery Card - Love is Chemicals
17. LiLiPUT - U - LiLiPUT
18. John Lennon - Nobody Told Me - Working Class Hero: The Definitive Lennon
19. George Harrison - Guru Vandana - Wonderwall Music
20. Avengers - The Good The Bad And The Kowalskis - Died For Your Sins

We got our first bite from a fabulous new artist to represent outside of our own records and came to a quick realization that no matter how much we prep our babies and polish their skills, we still cannot get them the essential needs such as realtime radio airplay and big time distribution.

So we had to pass up the incredibly talented Terese Taylor to go instead with Kill Rock Stars or Righteous Babe, who, she tells us, are knocking at her door. Go Girl!

Now we are going to revise this whole idea. We will let you all know when we are able (ala Righteous Babe style) to get those things for our own records, laying a foundation for the rest of ya. This is no easy feat we hear. It is a different world out there now. Even those you think are your best friends turn into obstacles instead of threads.... But we will overcome!

Also, J Neo Marvin needs to start working on his book. So we really do need to step back and trust the universe and our words as real.

Look for some new changes and we'll keep you updated.

In the meantime, enjoy our music and our movies in the Current Releases and let us know when you are having gigs to add to our calendar.

And stay tuned to the new Summer playlist on Ear Candle Radio coming soon.


Best, Davis and Neo

Chosen, as usual by our listeners. For no particular reason I said to myself, why 10? Why not 20? So here it is.

1. Linda Smith - I see your face - Nothing Else Matters
2. Gregory Isaacs - Extra Classic - Extra Classic
3. Beach Boys - H.E.L.P. Is On The Way - Landlocked-
4. Love - Seven & Seven Is - Da Capo (Get well, Arthur!)
5. Busi Mhlongo - Izinziswa - Only The Poorman Feel It
6. X-tal - Long Dark Night - Who Owns Our Dreams?
7. Robert Wyatt - Forest - Cuckooland
8. Y Pants - Magnetic Attraction - Y Pants
9. Mike Appelstein - Central Station - Oda King Made This Dress
10. The Go-Betweens - Cattle and Cane - Before Hollywood (We're all missing Grant, aren't we?)
11. Slumber Party - I'm an Example - Slumber Party
12. Link Wray - Raw-Hide - Rumble! The Best of Link Wray
13. Deerhoof - You Can See - The Runners Four
14. Nik Phelps & The Sprocket Ensemble - Askin' for Trouble - Fetch!
15. Kendra Smith - Valley Of The Morning Sun - Five Ways of Disappearing
16. Augustus Pablo - Memories Of The Ghetto - East Of The River Nile
17. Leonard Cohen - Democracy - Essential Leonard Cohen
18. John Cale - China Sea - The Island Years
19. Sister Double Happiness - On the Beach - Sister Double Happiness
20. Mekons - Alone and Forsaken - The Edge of the World

An interesting selection. Keep those votes coming.
http://www.live365.com/stations/jneomarvin

This is the official birth of our Ear Candle Productions site!

We have a lot of work to do to get all of our stuff up, but we couldn't
wait. So we bring it to you under construction.. sort of...

We would love your feedback.

We are stepping out with something evolutionary...

Can you feel a difference?

We want to be friends with people before we sign them
to our label. How to be a friend?

Well... play some music locally and invite us to shoot it and we
will probably want to put it up on our site. then we meet to
view it and get to feel each other out... the relationship could
stop or start there.

Come take a workshop!
Pilot workshops starting for free just to get our feet wet
and see if we can get the results we are after. Come
be our guinea pig. We'll feed you tea and beer. And
sometimes yummy food.

Need a fresh artistic perspective? Davis is a whirly bird
and never knows what she will come up with, so give her
a try for your next CD cover art and panel inserts...

Neo is about to give away some of his genious in
the deconstruction music class. I want to take that
one too! We need at least 5 people in a class, so
we will announce them as people enroll.

Wanna be on our label? (yikes!)
Hey, we take responsibility for your ego seriously.
So, let us brainstorm on what you want to project
and collect.... and then let davis take you through
some acting techniques to free up your character,
teach you about those powerful offices of truth
that enable you to present well, and run tape on
your progress.

The workshops require that you be both student
and teacher in that as audience of each performance
you give your critique as well as receive the critiques
of your peers.. and J Neo and Davis, of course.

Let Debra advise you about accounting and money
management and royalties and licensing.... copyrights, etc..
because she needs to remember these to serve everyone
well with good math intact.

Need a lawyer.... we can refer a copyright lawyer in the
bay area who is a musician.

Need an illustrator or a really seasoned graphic designer
packager... etc professionals... we know some who are
musicians.

Need a review? Ask Neo.

Need airplay. Send CD to J Neo Marvin at Ear Candle Productions, P O Box 170357, San Francisco, CA 94117

Need someone to talk to about your ambitions and loves and fears about being a creative being? try us. We might be at home... but this is rare... 415-564-2606

Anyway... look at our site and enjoy the view from here.