New England Music Scrapbook Newsletter
Alan Lewis, Editor

Our Corner of the Rock 'n' Roll Life

April 4, 2009
Issue 2009:321
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We've got Thrills, chills, Dirty Water
: : : What more do you need?
When the big beat hits ya
Comin' from your transistor
: : : Like the T at full speed
When the big beat hits ya...

"Boston Lullaby," Dudick/Naihersey.
: : : Copyright c. 1980 by Camaraderie Music, BMI.
: : : All rights reserved. Used with permission.

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BRATTLEBORO, VT, April 4 - There is a heck of a lot in this newsletter issue
that interests me. Here's hoping this mailing has similar appeal for you.
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READ WHAT INTERESTS YOU, scroll right past whatever doesn't.
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RECORD RELEASES THIS WEEK
As Listed by Newbury Comics
and Excerpted by Us

CD New Releases Available Tuesday, March 31st

COCKBURN, BRUCE-Slice O Life: Live Solo-$13.88

COHEN, LEONARD-Live In London-$15.99
<> Cohen's old "Live Songs" LP was great, so this listing for "Live in London,"
is promising. A new release from Leonard Cohen is always welcome.

DEGRAW, GAVIN-Free-$9.99
<> I always love the advertising phrase, "free ... you just pay the shipping."
Well, which is it: free or we have to pay something?" This Gavin DeGraw item
comes with "Free-$9.99." Right. We have not heard this record; but coming from
Gavin DeGraw, we expect it is energy-packed.

DYLAN, BOB-New Morning (Remaster)-$9.99
DYLAN, BOB/BAND-Basement Tapes (Remaster)-$13.99
DYLAN, BOB/BAND-Before The Flood (Remaster)-$13.99
DYLAN, BOB/DEAD-Dylan & The Dead (Remaster)-$9.99
FLATLANDERS-Hills And Valleys-$12.88
FORBERT, STEVE-Place And Time-$12.88
KRALL, DIANA-Quiet Nights-$11.88
MINISTRY-Adios... Putas Madres-$11.88

NICKS, STEVIE-Soundstage Sessions-$12.88
<> On one of this area's "Eighties, Nineties and Now" radio stations, it is
surprising how many 1980s records that are currently playing seem influenced not
so much by Fleetwood Mac in general as by Stevie Nicks in particular. She may
have had a bigger impact than I realized at the time.

RADIOHEAD-Pablo Honey (2 CD/1 DVD Special Edition)-$34.99
RADIOHEAD-Bends (2 CD/1 DVD Special Edition)-$34.99
SCOFIELD, JOHN-Piety Street-$11.88
URBAN, KEITH-Defying Gravity-$11.88
VEIRS, LAURA-Two Beers Viers-$7.99
YEAH YEAH YEAHS-It's Blitz-$9.99
YEAH YEAH YEAHS-It's Blitz (Deluxe Edition)-$15.99
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Featured DVD New Release Available Saturday, March 31st

Slumdog Millionaire - $19.99 DVD

SOURCE: Newbury Comics, "March 30 Newbury Comics Coupon and New Releases," March
30, 2009.

:: bob dylan, steve forbert, diana krall, john scofield, keith urban, laura
veirs ::
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RECORD RELEASES
By New England Artists

<> As wonderful a service as Newbury Comics provides with its weekly list of
record releases, there are lots fewer entries than I would have imagined of
recordings by artists based in the Northeast and performing mostly in the
Northeast.

Do us a favor, would you? If there are recent recordings you really like by
artists of the northeastern United States, e-mail us the basic details at our

: : : FredRemainsLost At Yahoo Dot Com

address, only convert this into an all-lowercase conventional e-mail address.

We mostly use a format suggested by Mickey O'Halloran.

Lonesome Brothers
"The Last CD" (CD, Captivating Music, 2008)

Various Artists
"Signature Sounds Tenth Anniversary Celebration"
(DVD, Signature Sounds, 2005)

Sometimes I will also include the catalog number after the label name.

I don't know yet exactly what we will do for listing digital downloads (Dig. LP?
Dig. EP?); but it seems to me when we get e-mails notifying us of them, a format
will emerge fast enough. Possibly

Mapei
"The Cocoa Butter Diaries" (Dig. EP, Downtown Records, 2009)

[Mapei is an artist of Rhode Islandic birth. Press release posted below.]

We are very happy to copy listings here from Newbury Comics. It would just be
great to balance things out a bit so a few more regional artists are represented
in this corner of cyberspace.
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PRESS RELEASES THIS WEEK

<> Aimee Mann To Tour the Northeast in July.

<> Mapei, Rhode Island Native, Has Released "The Cocoa Butter Diaries" EP.

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CROOKED STILL
In Vermont's News

: : : Greenhoe Theatre
: : : Landmark College
: : : Putney, Vermont
: : : Saturday, April 4, 2009
: : : 7:30 p.m.

HEADLINE:
"Crooked Still With Sam Amidon at Greenhoe Theatre"
The Original Vermont Observer
Friday

<> Nifty photo of Aoife O'Donovan and company on the cover of the latest issue
of our Original Vermont Observer newspaper, which arrived in our postal mail
Friday afternoon.

I have not personally been in the Greenhoe Theatre, since it was given that
name. It is called after one or more members of the local Greenhoe family, of
which my former co-worker Barbara Greenhoe is a member. It seems to me, though,
that this hall is a renovated version of the old Windham College theater,
Landmark College being situated on what was once the Windham College campus. If
this is correct, the Greenhoe Theatre is the same spot where I heard Sonny Terry
and Brownie McGhee, after those guys recorded and released an electric album and
during their electric tour in support of it.

I always thought Brownie McGhee would sound terrific on electric guitar, and boy
did he ever! He put on a subtle but totally amazing show.

Going entirely on memory ... Brownie McGhee has an important distinction in rock
'n' roll history. Atlantic Records was the great label, with its own catalog
plus others, notably including Stax/Volt. Originally, Atlantic had success with
jazz recordings. The label's very first rhythm 'n' blues hit, "Drinkin' Wine
Spo Dee Oh Dee Oh" was by brother Stick McGhee, and Brownie played guitar on
that record.

Helping get Atlantic started in the field of releasing hit R&R/R&B records was
no small thing.

But I digress...

Landmark College's Greenhoe Theatre ought to be a terrific place to hear a
concert, and Crooked Still ought to sound fantastic there.

Go straight. Go crooked. Go to Landmark College's Greenhoe Theatre!

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BEELINE RAMBLERS, STEVE GILLETTE & CINDY MANGSEN, HUNGRYTOWN,
AND PETE SUTHERLAND
"Song as Poetry" Concert and Workshop
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A Show at Our Very Own Spiritual Home

<> Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson - the group, Hungrytown - sent us information
about a great-sounding event, "Song as Poetry."

All week I have personally been singing a song by the superstar of Scottish
poetry, Robert Burns, "Caw the Ewes."

: : : Fair and lovely as thou art
: : : Thou hath stol' my very heart...

So I am really primed for "Song as Poetry."

All of Robert Burns' poems were set to music, and they come with some wonderful
tunes. At one time, right here in Vermont, Jean Redpath was recording and
releasing every last Robert Burns song-poem. I don't recall whether she ever
finished this project.

Here is what we were sent on the subject of "Song as Poetry" by the good folkies
of Hungrytown:

Saturday, April 4th, 7:30 p.m.
Firehouse Center for Visual Arts
Song as Poetry - In honor of National Poetry Month, a celebration of folk
tradition in old and new music.
149 Church St.
Burlington, VT 05401
802-238-7391
We're humbled to share the stage with the great Steve Gilette & Cindy Mangsen,
the Beeline Ramblers and Pete Sutherland. Concert to benefit the Champlain
Valley Folk Festival. Sponsored by It's Arthur's Fault! specialty foods, and the
Vermont chapter of Women Writing for (a) Change. Price: $15/$12 seniors and
students.

Sunday, April 5th, 2:00 p.m.
Deborah Rawson Memorial Library
Song as Poetry Songwriting Workshop
8 River Rd.
Jericho, VT 05465
802-238-7391
Featuring the great Steve Gilette & Cindy Mangsen, the Beeline Ramblers and Pete
Sutherland. Reservations required as seating is limited. Please call
802-238-7391 or email Lshelmandine@.... Sponsored by It's Arthur's Fault!
specialty foods, the Vermont chapter of Women Writing for (a) Change and the
Deborah Rawson Memorial Library. Price: Free.

THIS VERY NEW ENGLAND MUSIC SCRAPBOOK . . is named after a real-life, physical
object, Ludlow Patton's Hutchinson Family Scrapbook, which is in the collection
- more specifically, in the safe - of the Wadleigh Memorial Library in Milford,
New Hampshire. Hungrytown will be playing mere feet away from our primal
scrapbook. Here are the details they sent us:

Saturday, April 18th, 7:30 p.m.
Acoustic Cafe
At the Wadleigh Memorial Library
49 Nashua St.
Milford, NH 03055
603-673-2408
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Price: Free

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MUDHENS
When You Least Expect it...
A Mudhens Reunion!

Says Carla Ryder:

<> "After quite some time, I'll be sharing the stage once again with my old pals
Pete Chandler and Tom Groleau from the Mudhens. We'll be doing a short and
stripped down set of tunes from the vintage Mudhen's collection, newer Mudhen's
catalog and CRB. It's been lots of fun playing together again, rehearsals sound
great and this should be a really good night of music as the bands that follow
are stellar. This is my first show back after having twins in November, so I'm
looking forward to seeing lots of you. It's an early set so get there on time!

: : : Where: Harper's Ferry
: : : Set Time: 8:30 – 9:00
: : : When: Friday April 10, 2009
: : : Who: Carla, Pete & Tom

"Followed by the buzz-worthy Bon Savants and Tiger City."

SOURCE: Carla Ryder, "Special Set, Harper's Ferry, April 10," April 3, 2009.

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LONESOME BROTHERS
At Memorial Hall
Wilmington, Vermont
Saturday, April 11, 2009

: : : Frere Lonesome, Frere Lonesome
: : : Chantez vous, chantez vous
: : : Mason, he is singing
: : : Armenti's strings are ringing
: : : Ding, ding, dong
: : : Ding, ding, dong

<> Jessie Steiger and Dave Wolinsky present

The Lonesome Brothers

Saturday April 11th at Memorial Hall, Wilmington, VT

Music
Dancing
Free Buffet
Full Bar
$10.00 per ticket in advance
$12.00 at the door
Children under 12 free

For ticket info call Jessie at (802) 464-3560 or
The VT House @ (802) 464-9360

Partial proceeds to benefit Twice Blessed

OUR COPY OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT . . was kindly sent us by Ray Mason of The
Lonesome Brothers. His indenting came through really wild, creating one great
swirl on our computer screen. It is a true pity Yahoo Groups left-justifies the
whole thing. You should see it the way I did...

:: jim armenti ::

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PHIL AIKEN ARMY
At Precinct
Friday, April 17, 2009

<> "The Phil Aiken Army (debuting its new lineup as a SEXTET) will be at
Precinct Friday April 17 in Union Sq. First show in a while.

"The lineup is:

: : : 10:00 Phil Aiken Army
: : : 11:00 The Singhs
: : : 12:00 Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents

SOURCE: Russell Chudnofsky, "Shows in Cambridge, Nashville," April 2, 2009.

PHIL AIKEN HAS LONG BEEN . . a favorite around here. We have not heard a thing
of the Phil Aiken Army for a few years, so this new start is a real event.

Though I had thought we were on the Phil Aiken Army mailing list, we actually
learned of this show from guitarist and pop-opera impresario Russell Chudnofsky,
who we thank for letting us know.

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ALLEN DEVINE
Farewell

<> The April show listings for Toad in Cambridge, Massachusetts included this:

Sunday 4/19
AN EARLY SHOW @ 8:00 featuring
STEVE MAYONE
www.myspace.com/stevemayoneband
Followed at 10PM by
A FAREWELL TO ALLEN DEVINE featuring THE BEATLE BUTCHERS
www.myspace.com/allendevine

We know nothing more than what is included in the entry above. If Devine is
departing the area, though, we are sorry to hear it. Either way, we wish him
well.

Allen Devine is an important, long-time member of Boston's rock community. He
is a remarkable, versatile guitarist.
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BRIAN MINISCE
Best Instrumentalist Nominee

Brian Minisce has long been a member of the Becky Chace Band and various
ensembles with titles beginning with the name, Becky Chace. But here he steps
to the front.

<> "Brian is nominated in the Motif Magazine Music Poll for Best
Instrumentalist. Go Brian!"

SOURCE: Becky Chace, "Show Added, Brian Nominated for Award," April 2, 2009.
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MIKE AND RUTHY MERENDA
"Waltz of the Chickadee" CD

<> "This month it is our great pleasure to announce the release of a brand new
Mike and Ruthy CD, 'Waltz of the Chickadee.' It is a springtime serenade
featuring beautiful new songs and acoustic instrumentals and guest appearances
by our family and friends.

- - - - -

"Also, three 'Chickadee' songs are posted on MySpace and the entire album is
downloadable for CHEAP at AmieStreet."

SOURCE: Mike and Ruthy, "Waltz of the Chickadee," April 2, 2009.

:: michael merenda, ruth merenda, ruth ungar merenda ::
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SUSIE GHAHREMANI
A Break in the Action

<> Susie Ghahremani (gair-uh-mah-nee) - ex-New Englander, artist, one-woman band
(Snoozer), and all-around delightful person - has had her forward progress
slowed somewhat by the breaking of her shoulder. Worse yet, this happened on
her drawing-hand side.

Best wishes to Susie G., from all the folks at NEMS, for a speedy mending of
bones.

SOURCE: Susie Ghahremani, "Goodies and Broken Arms," March 31, 2009.

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD . . for certain, but it would be my guess that the
accent in gair-uh-mah-nee would be on the "mah" syllable. - Ed.
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS
Friday

Temptations to sing national anthem at Final Four AP - Fri Apr 3, 7:06 AM ET

DETROIT - The NCAA says Motown legends The Temptations will sing the national
anthem Monday night before the men's basketball national championship game at
Ford Field in Detroit.
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WEISSTRONAUTS GO DIGITAL
Entire Catalog Now on iTunes

"[O]ur entire back catalog -- that's FOUR full-length instrumental albums and
one holiday-themed EP -- are now all (finally) available for download purchase
on iTunes. If you or a loved one is interested in quickly and efficiently
filling in the gaps to your Weisstronauts music collection, simply go to the
iTunes music store and search 'Weisstronauts.' You (and we) will be glad you
did."
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GORDON STONE
Working on a New Recording

This item announced a concert that took place Friday. I am including it here
because Gordon Stone's reference to his forthcoming record is woven tightly into
the show announcement.

<> "Gordon will be playing banjo and pedal steel and performing some of
his original songs with 'Bayefall.' These musicians will be joining
Gordon on his upcoming release, due in early summer."

SOURCE: Gordon Stone Press Release, March 30, 2009.

WE ARE CURIOUS AS TO . . whether Jimmy Ryan will be on this record. Gordon
Stone and Jimmy Ryan do some powerful picking off one another, going all the way
back to Stone's first album released under his own name.
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STONE COYOTES
"A Rude Awakening" CD

<> "New CD here - almost!

"Due to delays, we will have it for Texas shows in April, but general release
will be early May.

"Watch for ... 'A Rude Awakening.'"

SOURCE: The Stone Coyotes, "Texas Shows, New CD Coming," April 1, 2009.
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Afternoon

George Harrison to get Hollywood Walk of Fame star AP - Fri Apr 3, 4:26 PM ET

LOS ANGELES - Paul McCartney may have a knighthood, but it's George Harrison who
is receiving the royal treatment from the Hollywood Walk of Fame this month.
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YAHOO MUSIC NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Evening

Charlie Louvin, 81, sings of salvation and sin
Reuters

By Robert Levine Robert Levine – Fri Apr 3, 8:03 pm ET

NEW YORK (Billboard) – "I was going to call these albums 'Heaven' and 'Hell,'"
Charlie Louvin says in his smooth Southern drawl.

:: louvin brothers ::
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DROPKICK MURPHYS
TV Performance Available Online

It seems likely that one or the other or both of these links still work. Here's
hoping anyway.

<> "Just in case you didn't see it, our performance on the Late Late Show with
Craig Ferguson aired on St Patrick's Day, here's a link to watch it online. We
come on around the 35 minute mark:

http://www.cbs.com/late_late_show/video/video.php?cid=583362836&pid=m0uSCNIQKqVY\
EKUezY9q1IsGAtYc_BKK&play=true&cc=0

"A fan has posted just the performance portion of the show here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ami24X3ko
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PETER MULVEY
"Letters From a Flying Machine" CD

<> "I've been immersed in the recording of the new CD, 'Letters From a Flying
Machine,' and it's coming together - after months of tracking at home and in
hotel rooms, we brought in the heavies for a studio session at Dave Chalfant's
Sackamusic in Conway, Mass, and now it's the odds, the ends, the bells, the
whistles, the artwork, the liner notes. You know what they say: good, fast, and
cheap -- you can pick two."

SOURCE: YH Management, "Peter Mulvey Newsletter," March 26, 2009.

WE ARE BETTING AGAINST . . this being a James Taylor tribute album. - Ed.
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SPECIAL EFFECTS, NINETEENTH-CENTURY STYLE

<> Last issue I mentioned the importance of special effects in many
nineteenth-century playhouses and other types of entertainment venues. The
workings of the Ghost effect, which was all the rage in New York City in the mid
1860s, was a carefully guarded trade secret.

NEMS readers who weathered the storm known as the 1960s, as well as those who
are conversant in all things Psychedelic Era, might be interested to know that
the original of this 1860s Ghost was named "Professor Pepper."

On Friday, I happened upon the following claim in a mid-1840s advertisement for
a museum of curiosities similar to the famed American Museum of P.T. Barnum:

The New York Museum was then presenting "Mr. Winchell the unequaled comic
lecturer whose rapid change of voice, dress and manner are so astonishingly
quick, and whose powers of imitation and transformation are so great as to
deceive each and every looker-on in the Lecture Room."

Here's betting watching that guy, in his transformation scenes, was a lot of
fun.

:: prof pepper, professor pepper ::
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YAHOO NEWS HEADLINE
Thursday Morning

: : : Study: Workers who surf Web at work
: : : are 9% more productive

THIS OPERATION, I BELIEVE, . . leads the way in the movement, "on-the-job
productivity through Websurfing." I became aware, very early on, that a great
many of our readers look through our newsletter at work, through the miracle of
carefully-targeted, highly-skilled goofing off. If you are reading this issue
at work, you are not alone.
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YAHOO NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Afternoon

: : : Wall Street looks past unemployment report
: : : to extend rally

LOOKING PAST DISMAL NEWS . . in the latest unemployment report is not easy, but
we still ought to do it. Employment, in the measuring of a recession, is a
lagging indicator, as opposed to a leading indicator. The employment picture
will improve late whether or not we like it.

Earlier in the week, the firm, Manpower, found reason for optimism in the rate
of layoffs slowing, while most employers reported near-term plans to maintain
current staffing levels.
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YAHOO NEWS HEADLINE
Friday Afternoon

N.J. men charged for staging UFO hoax in January

I WONDER WHETHER . . it is against the law to impersonate a space alien. - Ed.
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AIMEE MANN
Touring the Northeast in July

Aimee Hits the Road this Summer

Aimee will be touring the North East this July,
including 3 nights at NYC's beautiful new venue City Winery.

July 8 '09 Burlington, VT Quadricentennial Fest
July 9 '09 Londonberry, NH Tupelo Music Hall
July 10 '09 Peekskill, NY Paramount Center for the Arts
July 11 '09 North Adams, MA MASS MoCA
July 13 '09 New York, NY City Winery on sale 4/3
July 14 '09 New York, NY City Winery on sale 4/3
July 15 '09 New York, NY City Winery on sale 4/3
July 18 '09 Lowell, MA Lowell Summer Music Series
July 19 '09 Brownfield, ME Stone Mountain on sale 4/3
July 24 '09 Bay Shore, NY Boulton Center on sale 4/3
July 25 '09 Annapolis, MD Rams Head on sale 4/3
July 26 '09 Camden, NJ XPoNential Music Festival at Wiggins Park

More dates to be added soon, check aimeemann.com for more info.

All dates subject to change. Check local listings.

WIGGINS PARK: Great to see a public facility named for The Shaggs.

SOURCE: AimeeMann Dot Com, "Aimee Mann Newsletter - Tour Dates," April 1, 2009.

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MAPEI
Rhode Island Native Has Released
"The Cocoa Butter Diaries" EP

MAPEI'S DEBUT DIGITAL EP, THE COCOA BUTTER DIARIES, OUT NOW ON DOWNTOWN RECORDS

NEW EP ON ITUNES

World: meet Mapei. A fitting introduction to a continent / city / genre-hopping
artist whose hybrid style of music is ripe for fans across the globe.

In 2007, Mapei recorded the thumping, sparse, laser-age-funk track, Leader of
the Pack which prompted Downtown Records to sign her. Her debut EP, The Cocoa
Butter Diaries, with Leader of the Pack and three other tracks, was produced
entirely by DJ Mehdi (of Ed Banger fame) and Mapei. While electronic at their
base, these tracks carry complex vocal harmonies, punk sensibilities and a bold
hip-hop swagger.

Born and raised her young life in Rhode Island, Mapei found she had an aptitude
for music way before her family packed up and left New England for Stockholm,
Sweden. She spent years of moving back and forth between Stockholm and
Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, all the while performing with hip-hop groups
in Sweden, and singing on house tunes here in the States. She started writing
tunes that married the club music she was hearing around the globe with rap, at
around the same time as another club-rap pioneer, Spank Rock, was doing the same
thing stateside.

The Cocoa Butter Diaries are available now on ITunes.

MAPEI ON MYSPACE
www.myspace.com/mapei

DOWNTOWN RECORDS
www.downtownrecordings.com

SOURCE: J. R. Robinson of Biz3, "Mapei's Debut Digital EP, The Cocoa Butter
Diaries, Out Now on Downtown Records," March 24, 2009.
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<> As a rule, we do not post SHOW LISTINGS. The reason is quite simple. Though
our name is the NEW ENGLAND Music Scrapbook, probably an easy majority of our
readers are based outside the six New England states. The great majority of
show listings would be of no interest at all to the great majority of our
readers.

We make exceptions when show listings are part of an item of more general
interest. CD-release events are great examples. For us, the main point of an
item of this sort is that an act has a new record. The show being announced is
of secondary interest to us - if that - as far as the contents of our newsletter
goes.

In the very few, truly exceptional instances where we post show listings...
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... Shows can be canceled, sold out, or even moved to another date or location.
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