Music

Because I'm not done peeling onions.

https://www.discogs.com/release/1757660-Butthole-Surfers-Cream-Corn-From-The-Socket-Of-Davis

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jUU1H9pHog
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTtFr4o3kE

A Los Angeles judge has decided that Lost International, a prominent surf and lifestyle brand, cannot claim trademark infringement through the Lanham Act (Trademark Act of 1946) to block Lady Gaga from selling Mayhem merchandise as part of its an ongoing $100 million lawsuit.

The suit, filed in March, alleges that some of the musician’s Mayhem merchandise designs copy one of its logos. Judge Fernando M. Olguin’s latest decision dismisses the request for Gaga to be blocked from selling merch using the logo, which she has been doing since The Mayhem Ball Tour began in July 2025.

about the Battle of Blair Mountain and other Coal Wars.

http://www.blairpathways.com/2012/10/22/our-press-release/

Paywall Bypass Link https://archive.is/rusE7

Sitting at his studio console in New Jersey one afternoon this past spring, Kelly Pribble opened a yellowed cardboard box and pulled out a master audio tape by the jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley from 1975.

“A horrible year for tape,” he groaned.

Holding his eye close to the quarter-inch reel as he rolled it through a playback machine, Pribble noticed telltale signs of what he called “adhesion syndrome”: Parts of the tape were stuck together on their spool. Without special treatment, this studio recording of “Lovers” — a slice of funky jazz fusion recorded shortly before Adderley’s death — would be unplayable, the original music lost.

A huge portion of the world’s recorded musical heritage is stored on magnetic tape, used regularly from the 1940s into the digital age to capture musicians’ sounds in the studio. But as analog tape ages, it grows more fragile and vulnerable, posing a challenge for engineers like Pribble, 60, an audio preservation expert with the giant storage company Iron Mountain. For 15 years, he has been at the forefront of an obscure but vital industrywide effort to save old tapes — for which he employs an assortment of handmade tools and Rube Goldberg-worthy machines in a cramped workshop.

Fully improvised live performance recorded and filmed at Ikalto Micro Art Residence, Tbilisi.