A recent donation here at the ARC included 500 jazz books. One of them was by a journalist I had once met in Paris, Mike Zwerin. The book reminded me of a new acquaintance, Amanda Petrusich, who has just published a terrific… read more >>
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Empty the Garage – Fill the ARC
Sometimes ya gotta kick the dead rat out of the way to get to the stax o’ wax. The latest dusty snap from out West as former archivist and longtime pal Jon (not pictured) risked Jacob’s ladder in search of black gold…. read more >>
Lou Collage
Photographed on Church St this am – collage in window, Downtown, NYC…
Lou Reed
As many of you know by now Lou Reed has died. He was a friend, as well as a great supported of the ARChive, serving on our Board of Advisors from the very beginning. At one of our benefits he brought an… read more >>
Beatles + Elvis + India
Well the Beatles Made-in-India 78 was not affordable (there’s still a chance if you all make a donation!) at $1000, but I did muster the lucre for these swell 45s. In Rajasthan now on the music tour organized by the American Institute… read more >>
Los Tigres del Norte
Los Tigres del Norte have been on our radar since 1990 when we got in the LP ‘Para Adoloridos’ (uh, ‘For Shaking You Up’?). These Californians are in the news this week as Juarez, the capital of Chihuahua State and a major… read more >>
This is NOT the original Soundtrack
In the early 80s I spent a lot of time in Jamaica, mostly in Kingston, twice on the north shore. No matter where you were someone would point out that that villa over there was Goldeneye, home of Ian Fleming, author of… read more >>
2010 Year-end Roundup!
ARChive of Contemporary Music 2010 Year-end Roundup! – An overview of last year’s projects and activities it’s official: the oughts are over…. Uh, did you notice ARC’s subtle new sign outside on White Street? Yes, we now have the look of a… read more >>
Jerry Bock
ARC friend and long time supporter Jerry Bock died. (Jerrold Lewis Bock, 11/ 23/1928 – 11/3/2010) Back in 1999 Jerry donated his personal collection of over 9,000 Broadway and original cast albums. Needless to say there were a great many odds and… read more >>
Tyche, made redundant, now blogging @ the Times
At the bottom of it’s online page, under the ‘blogs’ banner, the New York Times offers six squares of teases and photos to click your interest. Today, for maybe twenty minutes, these two images were next to each other. I’m just back… read more >>
Boo-La La!
Ah, the past. It’s all coming back to me now. Spirits in the air, then airmail brought this very nice memory from the UK. This large poster was one of six placed around London in 1983 when I launched Volume, (736 page… read more >>
“silence is a riddim’ too…”
With a mixed cultural heritage (German/British), mixed-up cultural focus (noise/reggae) and a mixmastered public persona (art school/wild child), Ari Up brought a disjointed beauty to her vocals that remain haunting. I had seen her perform with the Slits @ Tier3 in 1980… read more >>
Friends, Encounters + Wished I Met
Easing into the new year, slowly. An old friend, Richard Fleming, aka DJ Richard Nixon, has worked his obsessions (music, hiking, the Caribbean, birding, photography) into a wonderful new book and photographic gallery show. I first met Rich in Cartegena, Colombia in… read more >>
Some RIPs
Well, the Summer Sale is over and was a great success. Thanks to all who braved the rain and helped us out by carting off our wretched excess. We’ve neglected the blog for a while, so here’s some recent things that caught… read more >>