Nov 21, 2009, 3:00pm
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If you don't already know about SBDIY , familiarize yo' self. If you live in or near Santa Barbara, get involved. And if you have the time to get involved, um, we could use the help as well. Oh, and totally unrelated, Merge just posted two new videos of Neutral Milk Hotel live at the Knitting Factory in New York (1998). On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea are also available for the first time on 180 gm vinyl in the Merge store and probably at [...]
Apr 17, 2009, 6:38pm
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<Anna> Cultural Chemists and the Despotic Destroyers… Thursday nights usually mean the start of the weekend up here, unless you have 8 a.m class the next day. Regardless it's the beginning of something, and what better way to start it off than a rump-shaking-spazzed-out-tropi cal-climate-filled garage? The Biko garage has been the home of more sonic jargon than a channel stuck on static… Ninjasonik and Japanther added to this repertoire and ripped through that two hour space of time after the sunset and before [...]

Let's keep the Paul Baribeau love going, shall we? You may recall that Baribeau was in town with posi-core hyper kids Good Luck a month ago. Seems they not only made the trek across the country safely, they have also managed to drop some good songs to boys and girls all along the way. On the west coast, in my former town of Santa Barbara, CA, there's a little show space called "The Biko Garage" which was once rocked by the likes of Toboggan Monster and recently played by Good Luck and [...]