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Coley, Byron

Dating Tips for Touring Bands [VINYL]

Coley, Byron: Dating Tips for Touring Bands [VINYL] (Hot Cars Warp)

The first spoken word LP by author, music journalist, poet, and head of Ecstatic Yod Records, Byron Coley, talking about underground cultural history in verse on Side A, and reading from his forthcoming novel, "Dominoes" on the B Side.
 

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Cover artwork by Savage Pencil.

Label: Hot Cars Warp
Catalog ID: 16
Squidco Product Code: 17906

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2013
Country: Great Britain
Packaging: Vinyl LP in a cardstock foldover
Recorded on April 5th, 2013 in South Deerfield, MA by Chris Corsano.

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"First full-length spoken word LP by music writer, jazz editor, underground columnist, author, poet, record label mogul, and footnote pioneer Byron Coley. Segments of underground cultural history done in verse constitute the A-side, with subjects both heroic and villainous. The flip consists of an abridged chapter from Coley's upcoming novel, Dominoes. Silk-screened cover with artwork by Savage Pencil."


Cover artwork by Savage Pencil.

Artist Biographies

"Byron Coley is an American music critic who wrote prominently for Forced Exposure magazine in the 1980s, from the fifth issue until the magazine ceased publication in 1993. Prior to Forced Exposure, he wrote for New York Rocker, Boston Rock, and Take It! Coley is one of the first writers to have extensively documented indie rock from its inception to the present day. Coley was a contributing writer and the Underground Editor at Spin in the 1980s and '90s, and currently writes for Wire and Arthur with Thurston Moore. He also runs Ecstatic Yod, a record label and shop based in Florence, Massachusetts.

Coley has contributed liner notes to albums by the Flesh Eaters, Borbetomagus, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Big Boys, Yo La Tengo, John Fahey, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Flaherty/Corsano duo, Urinals, and numerous others. He has also appeared in documentaries about musical artists Half Japanese, Minutemen, Jandek, The Holy Modal Rounders and Borbetomagus, in each extolling the genius of the subject matter. When he wrote the Flesh Eaters' entry in the Spin Alternative Record Guide, Coley stated that he considers A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die the best rock album ever recorded. For the 2007 Deluxe Edition of Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation, he contributed to the liner notes with a reflective essay on the legendary album.

Coley is also a published poet and occasionally gives public readings of his (and others') works. He also wrote a biography of Chuck Norris that was published in 1986. He also published a quickie bio of Mötley Crüe under the pseudonym "Billy Dwight" (an in-joke).

In 2010, Coley became involved with Feeding Tube Records in Northampton, Massachusetts, a record store where he sells rare items from his personal collection.

In 2011, Coley published the first collection of his reviews, C'est la guerre : Early writings 1978-1983, in a bilingual edition put out by Montreal publisher L'Oie de Cravan."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Coley)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



SIDE A

Beefheart

Club for Friars

Go! Tigers!

Dating Tips for Touring Bands

Superman 2

Kanada

Peter Cooper Village

Birds Poem

Birth of a Nation

Living & Dining in the West

Fuck You Lew

Semiotics of Rock

One for Jack

Punk Day

SIDE B

Closer (excerpt)

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