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Powers/Rolin Duo // Gerycz/Powers/Rolin // co-curator of @astraleditions // @auralthicket // public library worker/enthusiast
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The third Powers/Rolin Duo LP is “Clearing” & it’s set for release via Astral Editions on June 21, 2024 ✨
Recorded/mixed by Matthew J Rolin
Mastered by Mikey Young
Artwork by Robert Beatty
Album description by Will Oldham
Band photo by Bryon Miller
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I read many books but my retention of detail is unremarkable, maybe even remarkably low. I forget character names—sometimes before finishing a book—plot points soon after. I experience literature much like I do music: more as a series of vignettes, moods. Anybody else like this?
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I feel like Bandcamp Daily was one of the largest forces for good in music journalism—clearly not bowing down to click-potential, not bothering with rating anything, but instead unwaveringly and thoughtfully striving to cover music that few other publications would even consider.
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There are 3 types of people in this world: 1) “This is a noise table” / 2) “This is a beer pong table” / 3) “This is a church bake sale table”
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Once again, the greatest soup of all time: Peruvian chicken soup. I have the recipe I riff off of saved on my home screen—ready to share—if you love cilantro and want to partake ✨
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Unfortunately, both are still going strong
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I actually am taking a stance, here—wearing a mask for 3-4 hrs won’t cost anybody their rent; independent touring musicians having to cancel 1-?? shows because they caught the bug will almost surely cost them theirs.
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Thinking about the future of so many labels who don’t work with distributors like Redeye, Revolver, Forced, etc—labels who have depended on Bandcamp to sell their releases. There are so many out there and I’m afraid to think of what might happen to them.
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Jessica Pratt remains wildly underrated. Easily one of my very favorite songwriters of my generation. The moods she weaves into existence are just impeccable.
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Gotta say, the greatest side-effect of eating maybe too many psychedelic dr*gs over the year is that trees are permanently even more amazing than I’d ever previously been able to conceive
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I… did not expect this level of engagement! Heartening to see this post bursting with readers, including tons of emotional/impressionistic readers like me 😌 Viva books! Support yr independent bookstores, utilize yr public library (and ask them about Libby!)
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Going to bed now, but still thinking on a theme I’ve often pondered before: what are some perfectly cyclical albums you’ve encountered in your life? The ones that could play seamlessly on repeat—not thanks to yr own obsession, but rather to their own nature of expression?
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Watching the early sunset and shedding many tears for Mimi.
@lowtheband
is truly one of the great visionary bands of our time or any before, and because their music is utterly drenched with love, it will endure forever.
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So thankful that Arthur Russell left the rest of us with some of the most wonderful music imaginable
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It’s my distinct and unfathomably deep honor to announce that
@MatthewJRolin
and I are now curating Astral Editions ✨
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Told my dad all I wanted for my birthday was for him to please build me a new tape rack, so he did. Filled it up this morning. All recycled white oak and redwood, with a row for double cassettes along the top. ✨
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Still have a reeeally hard time trusting anyone who’s made it into their 30s and says they “don’t like jazz”
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I have more friends and acquaintances who currently have COVID than at any other point throughout the pandemic, and virtually all of them are musicians who had to cancel gigs. Such a blow to the collective spirit of the scene, and it’s getting worse by the day.
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Deeply interesting to see how this frustrates some, delights others, leaves others (like me) puzzled but undeterred. I’m also averse to writing down quotes, underlining, even reading a thorough description. And as I’ve said before: HATE an introduction! Afterwords only, please!
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Not me reminiscing, on the first day of fall, about how one time I met Richard Thompson and we successfully shared a laugh and a hug 🥹
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Please don’t be mad at musicians who are mad about the BC buyout; I think the majority of folks were never naive enough to view BC as unassailable bastions of moral purity, but it is more than understandable that many feel like they’ve just been sold out by someone they trusted
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I’m grateful for other outlets remaining (Aquarium Drunkard, Dusted, Tone Glow, Foxy Digitalis, Raven Sings the Blues, etc) that do the same hard & invaluable labor, but I’m grieving for the BC writers who have found their livelihood & work interrupted by brazen corporate greed.
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I still think Fred Neil is under-remembered and under-appreciated for being one of the great American songwriters—and singers. Lots of legends covered him, but man, he held his own every time ✨
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One of the greatest bits of recorded history—specifically this version, this series of moments:
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One pandemic-era lesson that I genuinely think I’ll hold true to from here on out is: even if you don’t feel like going to the show, just fucking go to the show anyway.
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Still pretty fucking wild to me that there are so many heads who hate Radiohead—I mean, what a goddamn band
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All major streaming services are uninterested in supporting musical artists in any meaningful way ✨
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@FixingEducation
Oh, I don’t need or want to fix the phenomenon—just curious to see how other folks experience reading.
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It’s been too long since I’ve shit-talked, I am TOO HAPPY, so here I am, just dropping in to say: Jerry’s guitar tone sucked (fatiguing) and he always played for far too long and I will never like the Dead
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Made it home just in time for one of the most spectacular sunsets of my life
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I know I’m hardly alone when I say that the majority of music I cherish most deeply has been made by truly independent artists, and it’s a tragedy to consider that so much of the world regards their efforts as worthy of literally a few dollars and cents at most.
Got my 1st 1/4 royalty check this week and thought Id share it here. This is for my entire catalog of work (12 years full time creative labor) and is what Im owed months after 1 of my most "successful" lps. I know Im not alone love to all the cultural workers living on the edge.
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Got in an Uber and dude asked us what was going on where he picked is up from, and we told him we play tomorrow at the event we were attending, and he asked Siri to play us, and now our music is blasting throughout his sensible sedan ♥️♥️♥️
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Unreal how good of a time the past four days have been—endless thanks to Will, Matt, Emmett, and Oscar for being kind and fantastic company, and for inviting us to join in on what turned out to be some of my favorite shows I’ve played. ♥️
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Just bought Sunburned Hand’s entire discography on Bandcamp. Does this make me immortal? I certainly feel more powerful.
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Not trying to be insane, but
@colepulice
and Matt and I spent over a year creating an album that I think is worth spending some serious time with—I mean, we spent some serious time creating it remotely, considering what would inspire the other party ✨
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Just shared these photos with
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—here you see my aunt Ann with John Fahey in the summer of 1970, when she flew out to SF after college. She said he was like 2 hrs late picking her up because he was busy returning a turtle to the desert. 😭 They look so happy here.
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I’d like to say that I think the music I make is actually deeply psychedelic and my band is available to get paid a tidy sum to play a psych fest, even if it’s 6+ hrs before an indie pop guy who maybe ate acid that one time in undergrad
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Shocked, amazed, vaguely dismayed, & oddly affirmed that so many folks who end up seeing my dumb little posts on the internet also seem to care so deeply for Fairport Convention. Wish I’d known y’all when I was 17, but better now than never ✨
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Unexpected highlight of this weekend: dude was fishing in the green room cooler when I was & I told him there were still some Narragansetts left & he laughed & said “I don’t know what that means” & I gestured to my prize & said “Shitty light beer”—turns out dude was JPEGMAFIA 😌
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Me: [plugging in my daisy chain and effects pedals] Hell yeah, I’m such a selfish piece of shit and I don’t care about politics or humanity in any way at all, this rules
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Having one beer and thoroughly scrubbing all the countertops in the kitchen wasn’t enough—now I’m sipping on gin, entering hour 3 of listening to Arthur Russell, finishing up another Roberto Bolaño novel, and I wanna be awake forever ✨
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Too boring to play Indie fests, too pleasant to play Weird fests, too cynical to play New Age fests, too modern to play Renaissance fests 😌💅
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Revisiting just some of the “indie” music of the mid-to-late-2000s w Matt tonight has honestly been so terrifying & awful & powerful & viscerally nostalgic. I’ve hated almost all of it, but man, it really makes me reconsider moments of my life I’d thought—or hoped—I’d forget.
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Been a tender, sad weekend over here, but my aunt called to gently remind me to send her scans of these photos of her with John Fahey from the summer of 1970 or ‘71, and they’re cheering me up, as they always do:
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All I want is to quit my comfortable job with my predictable schedule and reliable income so that I can embark on the endless, shimmering, gorgeous nightmare that is touring as a musician—it’s really not easier, but it would fulfill me far more greatly.
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I can’t remember when I first heard CAN. It’s a moment that just doesn’t feel fixed in time. All I remember is the way I felt—like they were the first band, the last band, the only band I’d ever heard, and I loved them immediately and fiercely. Visceral, vital music.
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As of about a half hour ago, yr girl is officially a library worker again. Technology assistance and soup-slinging—making the little ends meet is back on my horizon ✨
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Couldn’t be more thrilled to announce that Matt and I are returning to Kingston in December to once again play a gig at Tubby’s with our friends 75 Dollar Bill, this time with the absolute legend Joe McPhee as well. ✨
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“The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady” is one of those very rare albums that can seamlessly loop its way into eternity and somehow get better every time. Happy 100th, CM 🥂
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I really hope people like our little album ✨
Gerycz Powers Rolin - "Sun Rays"
video by Peter Shapiro
from the album 'Activator', out TOMORROW
full clip :
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It’s not hard to wear a mask and I’m tired of people pretending like it is. If you truly, for whatever reason, cannot handle wearing a mask? Do not attend the show.
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❤️❤️
@MatthewJRolin
and I are, indeed, featured in the latest edition of the Wire. Thanks to Bill for talking with and writing about us, and to Ryan aka George Brazil for photographing us at our place.
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Should get a little bonus pay, imo, because while working my regular job tonight, I also did the lord’s work by introducing my young coworker to John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Davy Graham, Sonny Sharrock, and Masayuki Takayanagi 😇
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Pleased and relieved to report that yr girl is, once again, ~employed~ 💅
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Is it a hot take these days to say that Panda Bear rules? Because Panda Bear still RULES
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Yr girl is about to have her own radio show on a station in Columbus, OH. Name: Aural Thicket. First ep: Shredders of 2020. Second ep: Folk to Keep Warm By. Flier artwork: forthcoming by Turner Williams Jr. Archives: will be available. Winter goals: one checked off the list. ✔️
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Thinking about Jaki on what would’ve been his 85th birthday 🥀
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I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I’ve just listened to the mastered mix of Powers/Rolin LP number 3, and I find it very, very good ✨
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Easily among the greatest rock set footage of all time:
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Finally got to see Pelt, my personal Led Zeppelin, last night 💫
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Gerycz/Powers/Rolin “Activator” LP set for release via 12XU on January 12, 2024 ✨
Recorded and mixed by Jayson Gerycz
Mastered by Carl Saff
Artwork by Nick Spolarich
Album description by John Elliott
Band photo by David MacCluskie
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My sentiments exactly—listened to the first two tracks on the way to work and so far it’s not really hitting me, but just IMAGINE the doors it could open for folks who aren’t already obsessive nerds, but who have the *potential* to become obsessive nerds.
we really do need bigger artists — like André 3000! — to experiment and follow their heart and inspirations vs aiming to extracting as much cash as they can from an uninspiring industry.
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Been married to Matt for one year today! Best decision I’ve ever made. 💖
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Haven’t seen
@SunwatchersBand
all together in ~7.5 years, at which time they entrusted me to book a banging show for them (maybe my third to host ever..?) and man, just full-body-thrilling, life-affirming shit, exactly like that night was, but even better! 😭💘🔥
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Bangs trimmed, album credits sent off, bathroom clean, dirt cheap vegetarian meal kick reactivated, cats hydrated, emails responded to, writing [alllmost] done, novel finished being read, two novellas started being read, jury duty avoided, we got reviewed in Mojo. P good day ✨
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No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by. Not looking for a perfect list, looking for a list that you instantly regret posting because you then remember something else.
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I know music is subjective, but it’s hard to deny that the Clean were one of the best bands to ever do it. Just perfect, effortlessly—and truly—psychedelic rock. Thankful for all that Hamish created during his time with us.
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I don’t like it when people hate on the Band. Great band, the Band. Garth’s sax playing alone should shield them from reductive hate.
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If there is a god, I’m surely doing exactly what it intended me to do, which is sitting on my porch getting kinda drunk and compiling a playlist of 20th century Western European folk/folk rock that’s reminiscent of autumn.
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Something I appreciate about the music of Iasos & of Phill Niblock is that in listening to it all, in reading/hearing/talking about other people’s experiences w it, I feel less alone in my desire to be enveloped, divorced from time. Sublimely cocoonal music. Goodbye to two greats
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@kevin_frint
I was high af sometime in college, cruising through farmland towns & crying to Joni CDs as was my go-to substitute for actual therapy. Rear-ended a massive pickup at a stop sign—he took one look at me in my ancient lil Japanese sedan & was like “Have a good one, lady” & took off
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Matt has once again created a breathtaking flyer to provide information about some shows we’re playing in the future. This is a really, really stacked string of dates in my favorite region of the country 💖✨
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Perfect album that came out when I was 16—first I thought of was The Books “Lost and Safe” but that was several months too early. This one will do ✨
perfect album that came out when you were 16
i feel like i could dig for some more obscure cut but i don’t think anything can top this little number
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Thrilled to be supporting this crew for three nights as they make their way to the east coast next year—dreamy! 🤩
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Absolutely 10/10 perfect pop record imo:
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Two types of people in this world:
1. People who appreciate the OG cover art for A Rainbow in Curved Air
2. Joyless losers
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Hoping no one deletes their artist profiles before I’m finished dl’ing 1287 albums in WAV 😰
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Matthew J Rolin, aka the love of my life, is going on a big ol’ solo US tour this fall 🔥 Most venues locked in, further details forthcoming ✨
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I received extremely sad news about a dear, dear family friend this morning & am having a hard time, as one does. I’m thankful for all the new music today—it’s something of a towline to carry me through my grief. Tell your loved ones how much you care, & please keep making music.
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@chaboirolin
and I just got engaged outside of Dirty Dungarees, the most wonderful venue on the planet ✨✨✨
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