The Nightingales, with special guests Christy & Emily, are touring Europe this summer. Full details and some more thoughts after the fold.

I’ve contributed some records to an art show taking place over the next month in lovely non-colonial Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Apologies to those not in the NYC area. more after the fold

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Was just forwarded this amazing Severed Heads clip that’s well worth watching. They (really, he) have (has) long been a favorite of mine, ever since that faithful day in my sophomore year of High School when I declared to my only college-radio listening peer that “I think Severed Heads have surpassed Joy Division as my favorite band”. Strong words, I know. Let me try to explain…

A few weeks ago I had the awesome pleasure of being a guest DJ on Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space radio show. We had been talking about early industrial music, Fad Gadget and the early days of Mute, so he invited me on to play some of that kind of stuff. I had last played on his show in 2005 as part of the Crazy Rhythms DJ duo with Mike Simonetti of Troubleman Unlimited and now Italians Do It Better(nice neo-italo/new-wave stuff). You may want to check that show out…I started with a bit of a post-punk set, opening with Paul Haig’s Mad Horses, a song I’d been playing since discovering the Fruit of the Original Sin compilation in college, but had never even thought of it in a DJ context untill Trevor Jackson sampled it on the Playgroup album and now Prins Thomas has posted it on Bumrocks. Anyway, Mike and I trade off, and later on after some italo-disco, I play Robert Fripp, Love of Life Orchestra, Haircut One Hundred, The Dragees, etc, then Mike, Tim and I all start switching off. You can see that playlist here. Anyway, I want to go into some details about the more recent show, because I have a blog now, and I can go on and on and on about whatever I want. More about Beats In Space, Tim Sweeney, Industrial and Minimal Synth music, Plant Bar, etc!