from : http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/lost-army-of-cambyses/ http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-lost-army-images.html http://news.discovery.com/videos/archaeology-ancient-lost-army-found.html http://www.archeologiaviva.tv/tv/video/80 Vanished 2,500 Year Old Persian Army...

New Yorkers were treated to a rare performance by Big Star on Wednesday night, when the iconic power-pop band — whose touring lineup now comprises frontman Alex Chilton, longtime drummer Jody Stephens, and Posies members Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow — performed at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple...

Synopsis of Defense Industry Reports 1-4 : Reeves took the krona he made from selling a documentary about North Carolinians drinking window cleaning fluid to a Swedish television channel, got drunk on Mexican beer in San Antonio and made a thousand T-shirts with “Defend Brooklyn” written on them. Now he’s hanging the shirts [...]

This week we’ve got the usual stunning array of new bands to thrill, chill and amaze you. From New Jersey noise poppers to SF psych poppers to Welsh collectives, these are all names to learn because they are going to be big timing it in 2010. Next week we’ll bring you another overflowing bounty of...

NOVEMBER 20 — LEO TOLSTOY Christian anarchist, novelist of epic and historic scale. NOVEMBER 20, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Mexico: REVOLUTION DAY. WRITING ON THE WALL DAY. ALSO ON NOVEMBER 20 IN HISTORY… 1752 — British poet, forger, suicide Thomas Chatterton born, Bristol, England. 1816 — Term...

Blurred and Spacey By Nabob Shineywater Originally published in Arthur No. 25 (October 2006) Sandy Bull Still Valentine’s Day 1969: Live at the Matrix, San Francisco (Water) When I was living in Point Reyes, my closest friends became people in their sixties. They would share stories with me as I...

What Steve Berra is talking about applies to other essential cultural sites/practices as well. Bookshops. Record shops. Coffeehouses. Magazine publishers. Book publishers. Record labels. And so on… Excerpts: “I receive emails almost every single day telling me about another skate shop or skatepark that’s going, or has gone, out of business. I get asked if there’s [...]

John Mayer’s Battle Studies is estimated to sell between 275,000 and 300,000 copies this week, which should make it the number one album on Billboard’s 200 chart. If it tops the chart, this will be Mayer’s second number one; 2003’s Heavier Things, which sold 317,000 in 2003, was his first. Casting...

Do you like pop music? Do you like snappy visuals? Well, 2006 was a pretty good year for both. I’m a big fan of Camera Obscura’s loving recreation of early 60s advertising, the Long Blondes’ wittily cinematic split screens, the Bicycles’ endearingly DIY-goofiness, Love is All’s invigorating live...