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EDIT BIG O ZINE Here's another link we found. TALKIN' ABOUT MY REVOLUTIONS And another link.

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XLR8R "He described [Russell as] this gay disco auteur in farmer-plaid shirts who would ride the Staten Island ferry endlessly, listening to cassette tapes of his own mixes."

Arthur Russell is one of our most favorite musicians. It's funny that this interview just popped up on the net because we were thinking about doing our own overview of Russell's music. In the meantime, here are a couple of other links to whet your appetite.

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DUSTED MAGAZINE

NEW TIMES BROWARD PALM BEACH "The National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally Ill (NAEMI) is in need of more program dollars to keep the organization going, and Radio-Active is hooking it up. If you're not familiar with NAEMI, the Miami-based org does advocacy work for artists who suffer from mental illness...At this weekend's event, a bunch of bands and singers are getting together to put on a solid evening of music. All the artists on the bill will perform songs from artists who suffered from mental illness, like [Daniel]Johnston, Roky Erickson, and Brian Wilson, in a show of solidarity."

GAZETTE.NET "The Beach Boys used a theremin-like instrument to record the electronic warble heard in 'Good Vibrations.'"

USASIANWIRE "To further its mission of providing personalized songs for seriously ill children and teens, the Songs of Love Foundation will host a benefit concert with award-winning Beatles™ tribute band, The Fab Faux...The show features a performance by the Fab Faux, including a pre-concert live recording of the audience adding their voices on the 15,000th "song of love" written for Steven Domalewski...The special song will be composed by Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' writer Tony Asher and the lead vocal will be recorded by Fab Faux and David Letterman Band member Will Lee."

ABILITY MAGAZINE I'm not sure when this came out, but it was new to me, so I thought I'd share.

EDMUNDS INSIDELINE "The long derelict Lakeland International Raceway just northeast of Memphis, Tennessee, one of racing's great ghosts, is on the verge of complete extinction."

"Lakeland's most enduring fame comes from its appearance in the 1971 motorhead/existentialist classic 'Two-Lane Blacktop.' The track was among the most vivid stops for James Taylor's 'Driver,' Dennis Wilson's 'Mechanic' and their wicked '55 Chevy during their transcontinental odyssey. It's not only that their '55 raced there, but that various other classic race vehicles were on display at the time as well."

SOUTH JERSEY LIFE "I'm kind of like my favorite pet, Wonder."

"Wonder is a mutt. He is 500 years old. Really healthy. And I can tell he loves being Mr. Dog. He loves going outside, inspecting the year and barking at the birds."

"He does not realize he is hundreds of years old."

"He has a great life."

DAILY TIMES

KANSAS CITY STAR "“… ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ was a B-side. You should live so long, right? Yeah. Nothing special about that. ‘Let’s throw it on the B-side.’ The first of two records we’ll be playing on the show recorded at Gold Star Studios. … Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, Brian taking turns with various lyric writers and somehow managing to maintain an extraordinarily consistent identity of innocence …”

FINANCIAL TIMES "The harmonies, aided by Darian Sahanaja, who helped Brian Wilson bring 'Smile' to life, sounded as pristine as could be..."

GUARDIAN UK "The Zombies' 1968 album 'Odessey and Oracle' is one of rock history's great what-ifs. It was an achievement to rival anything the summer of love produced, but recorded by a band whose moment had passed, and whose singer celebrated its release by becoming an insurance clerk. It never stood a chance. You could describe it as the 'Pet Sounds' the Beach Boys might have made had Brian Wilson hailed from Hertfordshire rather than Hawthorne, California. This impression was reinforced by the presence on stage tonight of Wilson's 'musical secretary' Darian Sahanaja, who seems to have played a similar role in bringing about a live performance of Odessey and Oracle as he did for Wilson's masterpiece. It certainly shares both 'Pet Sounds' ornate harmonies and sense of ingenuousness; as free love was blossoming, here were the Zombies singing the unrepentantly suburban Friends of Mine, cheerily listing the happy marriages of their various pals."

TIMES ONLINE "Emotions ran high as the four surviving members of the Zombies were reunited at the weekend for an anniversary waltz with the past. It is 40 years since the group from St Albans released their second album, Odessey and Oracle, a sobering thought for anyone who was around at the time but also, it seems, a curiously poignant landmark for many who were not."

THE SCOTSMAN "Throughout, the joyous group harmonies coalesced so naturally that you could hardly credit that it had taken 40 years to reach this seminal moment, which deserves to be ranked beside Brian Wilson's remarkable comeback for its impeccable artistry and uplifting power."