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November 4, 2007
Lance Hahn Memorial
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Bay Area friends: there will be a memorial for Lance Hahn on Sunday, Nov. 11 at the Hemlock Tavern in San Francisco. All are welcome.
Club Info: Hemlock Tavern
Texan friends: The Austin Memorial will take place from 4–8 PM on Sunday, November 18 at The Mohawk.
Club Info: The Mohawk
More about Lance: lancehahn.org
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October 22, 2007
Lance Hahn, 1967-2007
Dec 20, 2006
For the Benefit of Cal Robbins
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Callum
Robbins, the son of long-time friend J. Robbins and Janet Morgan has
been diagnosed with the life-threatening genetic disorder Type
1 SMA - or Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
There is hope for Cal,
but treatment is is incredibly expensive and the family needs your help.
The good folks at DeSoto records have set up a benefit for Cal.
Please click this link to DeSoto Records for more information and
to donate what you can.
http://www.desotorecords.com/cal/index.shtml
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May 8, 2006
Jawbreaker Audio Documentary on Dailysonic
September 5, 2005
Deer Ewe,
It's Adam. As you can see,
there's some new stuff going
on and coming out. First off
is Duchess, a great LA band
featuring peeps I've known
half my life. Their record
comes out October 17. Their
bio reads something like this:
Duchess is a new band comprised
of two veteran players --
Christy Schnabel, whose torrid
vocals you will instantly
remember from Ugly Beauty,
and Jerry Di Rienzo of same.
After spending several years
touring with bands like Built
to Spill, Come and Blond Redhead,
Schnabel took time off from
music to raise her daughter
and write a book chronicling
her time spent duking it out
in major-label land (Ugly
Beauty was on Atlantic). Upon
finishing the book (due in
spring 2006) Schnabel sequestered
herself in a downtown LA practice
space and got back to business,
armed only with her Fender
guitar, a mic, an ancient
8-track and two ten-pound
bags of oranges. She emerged
a week later with what would
become the Duchess album.
The album is Schnabel's vision
start to finish -- she writes
all the songs, plays all the
guitars, and sings all the
vocals. Her voice is languorous,
other times ragged and raging,
sounding like PJ Harvey direct
from a court-ordered month
at Bellevue. Other times,
she courts torchy, her voice
warm and velveteen. Or as
CMJ put it, "Schnabel delivers
with an alluring voice, rich
in blues inflected attitude.
Her vocals resonate -- She's
tough enough to stand her
ground on the punk rockers
but it's on the gentler ballads
that Schnabel really shines,
or rather, smolders." Jerry
you know from Cell, (NYC band
discovered by Thurston Moore
– big in the nineties). He
owns Hot Pie Recording in
Pasadena, where he busies
himself in the studio recording
LA luminaries too numerous
to name-drop. It was here
that the Duchess record was
given to ex-Jawbreaker drummer
and Blackball Records one-man-show
Adam Pfahler, who vowed to
sell ten times less records
than a major while paying
the band ten times more royalties.
They didn't even have to shake
on it...
Listen to some songs at: myspace.com/duchessband
Next out will be the Whysall
Lane debut. If you want a
taste: myspace.com/whysalllane
JAWBREAKER
NEWS:
I have been talking to We
Jam Econo (the Minutemen documentary)
filmmaker Keith Schieron about
doing a Jawbreaker doc. I
have been dumping footage
into Final Cut, which I will
go through with Blake before
editing. I don't know what
the arc of this story will
be. As long as it doesn't
come off too self congratulatory
or play like some cautionary
tale on the pitfalls of the
music industry, I think it
could be cool. Please email
me any thoughts you have on
this project. And if anyone
out there has film of us,
please contact me. We need
all the source material we
can get our hands on.
OTHER:
I had the opportunity to record
with my sister Kembra's band
the Voluptuous Horror of Karen
Black in NYC last month. It
was especially cool because
we recorded a song with Debbie
Harry on vocals. This was
like playing with, well, Debbie
Harry. She was as cool as
you knew she'd be and even
more stunning in person than
you could ever imagine. I'm
going back out to play the
first ever NYC art parade
on September 10th. The VHOKB
will rock out on a flatbed
truck modeled after the Death
Mobile from Animal House.
So all you east coasters come
say hey.
Okay, that's it. Keep in touch...
Love, Adam
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