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Author Archives: Levi Fuller
Submit to Ball of Wax 30!
It seems that fall is upon us. Later the season will bring us the Fall 2012 installment of Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly– the 30th (!) such installment to be released to the world. But before that happens, it needs … Continue reading
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Check Out This Song: Landlady – “Above My Ground”
I get emails! If you ever want a bunch of new friends to start emailing you constantly, just start a music blog. Within weeks you will have musicians and their publicists sending you very friendly messages, calling you by your … Continue reading
Singin’ Freebird with Christian Bookshop
Longtime Ball of Wax listeners might remember the Irish band Music for Dead Birds from Volume 12. I’ve wondered over the past few years what they might be up to, and I was quite pleased to receive an email yesterday … Continue reading
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Tagged christian bookshop, music for dead birds
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Ball of Wax 29 Release Show Tonight at the Comet! Listen Here Now.
Tonight’s show at the Comet Tavern should be loads of fun (and many many thanks go to the Comet for saving our butts after the untimely implosion of the Rogue & Peasant). Come on down for guitarless sets – many … Continue reading
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Old Friends with New Names
Ball of Wax‘s connections to Mark Johnson and Michael Sanchez – of Amateur Radio Operator and The Way It Is, respectively – run deep, going back to our first couple volumes (ARO made their debut on Volume 1, The Way … Continue reading
Snowman Plan Release Minerals Saturday
It’s been far too long since you’ve heard the cerebrally strange sounds of Snowman Plan on a volume of Ball of Wax (go all the way back to the instrumental Volume 8 and dig “Your Toad Roots”), but then, they’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged black lodge, IS, levator, snowman plan
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Ball of Wax 29: No Guitars! Friday, September 7 at the COMET
Ball of Wax Volume 29 Release Show: No Guitars Gems; Rosyvelt; Werebearcat!; Caitlin Sherman (Slow Skate); Town Forest (Mark Johnson, Amateur Radio Operator); Mark Schlipper; Levi Fuller Friday, September 7th, 8pm $7 / free Ball of Wax 29 CD with … Continue reading
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New Music from Sun Tunnels
Although he’s been slacking something terrible on the blog front, my friend Louis has been getting back to rediscovering the fun of writing and recording music under his newish moniker Sun Tunnels, and sharing it via his fancy new Soundcloud … Continue reading
A Good Year for Local Instrumental Vinyl: New Releases from Joy Wants Eternity and Scriptures
If you know me just through Ball of Wax, you might not realize that I’m a pretty big fan/supporter of instrumental rock music (sometimes referred to with the blanket genre term “post-rock”). I play in a droney instrumental band myself, … Continue reading
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Tagged instrumental rock, joy wants eternity, post-rock, scriptures, vinyl
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