The New Bedford National Historical Whaling Museum started as Artist in Residence program a few years back. I was the first one to give the new program program a try.

The prompt was the theme. “The Monsters We Create”

The assigned material was rope

Vanessa Gilbert, Ronald Lewis and myself took those two elements and made this

A quick recount of the development process regarding Over the Top from one-act comedy to hybrid performance

Irish Punk Rock!

New Brunswickian pysch folk!

More Chinese Post-punk!

I think this covers what we listened to that night. but maybe what we listened to another night or maybe we didn’t listen to all of that night. or ever. anyway. here’s Renaldo and the Loaf, Kompromat, Men’s Recovery Project, and chinese post-punk

I rant about the fact the fact that there is a housing shoratge and a glut of office space in DC. Oh, yeah, and too many cars on too many roads, making too much noise and pollution. What the hell is so hard about getting all those problems to solve themselves?

We travel from Northern Mexico to northern Africa by way of the Sahel enjoying some dark acid cumbia and some electro-trad.

Jack Bang and Ace Luxor drop quarters in the game and join the party.

We listen to Radio Valkyrie 1905-1917 by Big Blood

Pretty damn incomplete posting, but rather than just keep it the drafts folder forever, I leave it here because the music is good and it keeps the Listen Up stuff kinds sorta in order

Oh yeah, its that song. Again and again and again by a bunch of different outfits. It’s going to be in your head all day, so ask yourself:

“ Do I need it? - Can I handle handle it?”

Mostly strange stuff from Baltimore.

Mauskovic Dance Band provides super fun Afro-Latin Psych from Amsterdam

Ana Roxanne balances it with soothing , humid sounds

Plus a blast of chill (out) from the South Pole

At the time, a one-off synced needle drop between Providence and DC. In the end, the start of a long journey