October 2011
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Maybe Monday: Project Preview?
Studio shot of a project underway at newly renovated Transemitter Tactile Studio City Country. Any and all theories as to what it may be are welcome.
May 2011
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Blip Festival 2011: May 19-21: Chip Tune Mayhem
If you’ve never experienced the sound of a Game Boy being blasted through a PA while a world-class visual artist projects their work on a wall, now is the time to rectify that situation. The 2011 Blip Festival (Fifth Anniversary NYC Edition) starts this Thursday, May 19th. From May 19th—21st the international chip music scene will converge on New York City for presentations, tutorials, and...
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Bit Shifter: Reformatted by Lightning
“Your Music! Played through Lightning!” is the seductive siren call of the Open Spark Project, a “fun-loving group of people” who play music through Tesla Coils (pictured above).
Bit Shifter’s anthemic “Reformat the Planet” was super-heated and blasted through the air today. It’s a mesmerizing viewing experience—like a laser-light show, but it...
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Spring Spawned A YNGMNSTR Records
Chattanooga, TN art collective Young Monster are launching their record label YNGMNSTR Records with a 7” by Big Kitty, promising “mystical folk gem[s]” on both sides. The TTSCC Internet Musical Sound Research Facility investigated this claim and found that Big Kitty does indeed specialize in “mystical folk gems” that invoke a feeling of “Moonshine...
April 2011
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A Tunguska Weighs A Ton
Tunguska: A mysterious 1908 explosion in the Siberian wilderness that leveled trees over 830 sq. miles, or promising experimental band from South Carolina? Answer: Yes.
This new meaning of Tunguska was stumbled upon by TTSCC Representatives at the recent Charges show featuring Ruby Velle. It was but one highlight in a night of highlights, including (in no particular order):
Ruby Velle: Soul...
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The Backpeddlers Need You to Kickstart Their Vinyl...
This post has a sad start: “Only a year ago, Mark Norris was through with music.” “Who’s Mark Norris?,” you may ask, and the fact that you may even have to ask is a testament to the injustices of the world.
Mark Norris was the wise-cracking, high-kicking, rabble-rousing frontman of legendary and loved Buffalo band Girlpope—a band without whom it’d be impossible...
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Charges LAST SHOW (for several months) featuring...
All good things must come to an end, however, all great things merely take a break before returning to dominate anew! And so it is with Charges, who play their last show (for several months) this Saturday, April 9, 2011, at The Music Room, 327 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA.
This brief respite from the Charges’ electrocution-fueled farfisa+guitar-rock furor is to help bring their two new...
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Keith & Dimitri & Mario & Steven & Keith & Ron &... →
If you missed this tidbit last week, the MY WARdrobe Black Flag Tribute Shirt recently made an appearance with OFF! in Atlanta. What style! You can can purchase your own (although supplies are dwindling) of the limited edition MY WARdrobe Black Flag Tribute Shirt in our store.
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Punk rock supergroup OFF! played Atlanta’s Drunken Unicorn last week. Their collection of EPs is a favorite...
March 2011
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Charges at the Drunken Unicorn, with The Dollyrots...
Monday nights are boring. That why Charges, Atlanta’s premier guitar and farfisa punk/glam quintet, are playing tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at the Drunken Unicorn. Charges will be middle-lining between local openers Superpill and headliners The Dollyrots. Read more about this exciting triple bill on the Drunken Unicorn’s blog.
A mere $8 (21+) buys entrance to the...
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Charges at the Highland Ballroom with One-Third of...
This is a not a last-minute show-going tip: you have nearly 26 hours notice that those freewheelin’ farfisa-fellows known as Charges are playing at the Highland Ballroom this Friday, March 4th with Arcado and The Fortunate Few. As their hit song says: “Believe It”!
Charges, as previously noted, have a special guest second guitarist right now in the form of Paul from the Larkin...
February 2011
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Atlanta's Charges Get Some (Larkin) Administration
Hot tip for Atlanta show-goers this 2/5/2011 weekend: see Charges at 529 this Saturday, and you’ll see interim Charge Paul (the Larkin Administration) on second guitar.
What? When? How can this be?
Please! Calm yourselves, and read on…
Charges are a hard-driving, farfisa-abusing, glam-nodding punky rock quintet who have been racking up rave reviews for their debut 7”...
January 2011
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Quora 1, TTSCC 0: Meet Emmitt Scciccio
Following our previous exchange with Quora Admin, we received the following message:
We currently don’t allow corporate accounts on Quora. We understand that you want to be a representative of your company but please do it as yourself;
“Please do it as yourself,” Mr./Mrs./Robot/Other “Quora Admin” non-ironically asks whilst hiding behind an all-encompassing,...
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2011 Begins with Niggling Quora Drama
Quora Admin enters.
Quora Admin Hello, One of the rules of Quora is that everyone uses his or her real full name. Do you mind changing your name to reflect that? If this is a mistake and you are already using your real name, just reply to this message letting us know that. You can change your name here: [ REDACTED ] And you can find more details here: Do I have to use my real name on...
December 2010
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Continued Happy Holidays, Courtesy of a TTSCC...
Whether you’re festive, restive, snowed in, plowed under, or busily transferring your record purchasing hitlist to your phone/blog/bookmarking service/sugar daddy, it’s never too late to celebrate the holidays.
If you follow the TTSCC on Twitter, you already saw our update about former member of the Larkin Administration Erik’s band Unikord. In case you missed it, Unikord...
November 2010
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July 2010
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Field Journal Update #885
Whatever is happening is not good. Besides not being able to actually find out what is happening with our ship, our new friends make us all nervous. Sometimes, they laugh at things we say about the States/India/Japan—but at the wrong moments. Usually in relation to something about a site we will be glad to see. Most of yesterday and tonight they have a pacing quality to them. Watching us. With...
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Field Journal Update #882
Our ship didn’t come in. Detained for “inspection”. Planes are also being denied access to the airport.
Word from our Southern Third is good, and they made their contact. No word from the Northern Third still.
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Field Journal Update #880
After the last ambush was repelled, we thought we’d seen the worst of it. What a joke! Send in a bunch of trucks into most of the east coast and you might as well have a militia magnet on board. The closer we got the more shakedown artists we found, each a little more determined an d better armed with the last.
Two surprises: a deal was pre-cut with perhaps the least evil/most benevolent...
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Field Journal Update #879
I’ve never been so happy to smell he filth of the city. Civilization.
Guns still at hand.
Field Journal Update #857
Happy Independence Day, for the Americans among us. Some drinks, some whoops, some gunshots for fun. Unfortunately most of the day is spent in planning where we’re heading. Probably west, giving the shitstorm that is east right now. Even cutting up through Egypt brings its own troubles, though I believe that would also mean doubling back at this point anyway.
Label news is grim. Professor...
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Field Journal Update #856
We made it into town late. The town is a small community around this oasis. Word travels fast when you’ve got a long, heavily-burdened caravan showing up. Word must be the only thing that travels fast out here, inversely proportionate to its isolation. I should ask Laghdaf about that. He’s with TTSCC Atmospheric Sound Interference Research Unit 82, part of the team of scientists we...
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Field Journal Update #855
Apparently the long way really means the long way. Not much talk on the trail as we try to make the closest town.
June 2010
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Field Journal Update #853
Waiting for arrangements. Urgency is urgent, but out here everything takes time. No place for the planes to land that we’d need to haul the gear out. There is a lot of gear. I’ll try and post a picture.
No trouble since the other night, really. Someone’s out there, because we can see them out of range. Watching. Doesnt help matters. Even with the clif bars.
The waits are...
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Field Journal Update #851
Last night’s jump up made me kick the laptop into the support post. Startup’s weird. Let’s hope for it work.
Came out to find that we are most likely splitting teams. No more info than that now, just lots of phonecalls and angry voices. Work continues, but it’s distracted.
Support team looks worried. Clif bars for all should cure the blues.
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Field Journal Update #850
Woekn up by more gunshots, closer. Grabbed my gun this time. Ran out to see Elmi backlit from the fire blast off a semi-automatic round into the night. Hell, this is crazy.
Regrouped later. Plan updates being redrawn. All scout and dig teams report ok. That’s good.
Bustin out fat swigs of our homebrew tonight before sleep.
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Field Journal Update #849
Breakthrough on the phone front. Got in touch with staff. Most definitely bad. It appears that updates we’ve been fed on our trips has all been faked. Site updates served out via proxy servers set up in several TTSCC Datacenters across the globe, sending what appeared to be the legitimate site to our connections, which had been hacked. It seems like more work than actually doing one’s...
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Field Journal Update #848
Gunshots in the afternoon. Some people too interested in what’s happening. They started shooting at scout party B when they were at the “East Outcrop” as they call it.
Like much out here, the good signs come with a healthy dose of bad. Guards staked out tonight. Camp Anxious.
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Field Journal Update #847
First day digging has turned up only some fragments being analyzed by the scientists right now. Scout parties out to surrounding faces, waiting to see what gets found. Still no word from TTSCC proper. The Professor stalks around the fire, agitated.
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Field Update Journal #846
Bad day on the trail. Heat, camels acting up. but we did get to the cave. After a while out here you almost get used to weird things. As the outcroppings got closer we began to see pottery shards in the sand. Old, mostly. But there was tupperware, a gas can, and bullet shells. So we aren’t the first ones here since the pharaohs.
Resupply was good to see. Doesn’t matter what they use,...
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Field Journal Update #845
If someone traded the last fucking clif bars to the resupply team Im going to fucking beat them.
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Field Journal Update #844
Up early. New direction. Lots of commotion before we’re on the move. Thinks he has it. The sun is already unbearable. Used to it, sort of.
Apparently this is all about materials for computers, discs, and all that. This is what we do know. The Professor had an idea about how/where music was going. Smart. Rumors about ways to improve the process, minerals, rare items, strange properties....
Field Journal Update #843
I’m sorry other posts are so brief. I’m trying to send these out while the Professor’s out of camp or otherwise preoccupied with staring at old maps or trying to bribe locals. It’s hard to do that since we’re somewhere in the Sahara desert. No, I don’t know where, exactly. Only he knows. Any positioning information is a closely guarded secret, except to our...
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Field Journal Update #842
On the move. Trying to get to this cave Professor heard about. Sandstorm forecast by Elmi, no sign yet.
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Field Journal Update #841
Finally figured out that if I title the updates this way, it avoids suspicion. Makes sense, since this how updates were titled before our last backup drive was compromised by a curious and hungry camel. The goddamn smelly beasts. At least the satellite linkup is ok although how I don’t know.
The other laptops and drives met different but similar grisly ends. A lot of death by sand...
Con nn ection trouble
Cant write it because we keeep lsoing teh coonection plus too mnay people. CAmps busy - news isnggt good from office. he’s angry, very angry.
Update from the Field
I’m beginning to fear for the sanity of our label’s beloved leader. More later.
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TTSCC News for June/July 2000
Summer! The birds sing! The bees sting! The girls wear tank tops and the men gawk! It is also time to provide information about the TTSCC that is as hot as the summer sun that burns your arm as you cruise the avenue. So flip the switches, blow out the bass, and grab a seat.
With Caution and Precision
The TTSCC is currently engineering the design of certain plans and schemes. These items will,...
January 2000
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TTSCC News as of 1.19.00
Although it has been a considerable amount of time since this section of the website was worked on, we can assure you that the TTSCC has not been at a standstill in its activities during this period of inexcusable laziness towards the website.
The Maxim of Change
Yes, it’s true, the more things change, the slower they are to actually change. This is true both for the electronic presentation...
July 1999
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TTSCC News as of 7.13.99
Ah, Good Tidings to you, web surfer! Is this not what the web is truly for, aside from keeping in touch with loved ones far across the waves, and perusing the voluminous amount of electronically viewable text and image-based smut online, the gathering of information? Of course it is, that is why we encourage you to return weekly for “updates” regarding what has transpired here at the...