Text by by Metal Postcards Rec‘s Sean Hockings
Any record store freak worth their while will already know about Tokyo’s endless mini record stores that only stock the Beatles oeuvre or another that might only stock Can reprints etc. We thought you might also like to be made aware of the few other shops that we’ve come across that might help you feed your desire to find Asian rock , electronic and underground tunes
Text by Michael Chapin
One of my clients bought a very expensive instrument from a store. The store, acting as agent for a private owner, wanted her to provide an out-of-state address where they could say the instrument was shipped to when she actually took it home herself. This way the store wouldn’t collect New York sales tax.
Why? The original owner didn’t want any potential sale to include sales tax but instead wanted all the money a buyer could come up with for themselves – or they wouldn’t sell it.
My client came to me at tax time with this problem. We decided she should pay something called “use tax” in lieu of the sales tax the store wouldn’t collect. Read more: in Allegro (Archive: Volume 113 No. 2 February, 2013): http://www.local802afm.org/2013/02/buying-an-expensive-instrument-dont-try-to-avoid-sales-tax/.
Text by by Metal Postcards Rec‘s Sean Hockings
Hong Kong has long been a backwater for live music. Only a few years back we’d still have to wait months for the latest nostalgia artist to roll into town. In January we’d get Rod the Mod, June The Police and then Coldplay at the end of the year.
But 2013 seems to be the year when it’s all changing and very quickly too.
Date: Monday, March 18, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St,Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
8:30 – Adam Larson with: Adam Larson- saxophone, Nils Weinhold- guitar, Robert Langslet- piano, Harish Raghavan- bass and Jason Burger- drums
Originally from Normal, IL, Saxophonist-Composer and Rico Reeds Performing Artist Adam Larson, began playing saxophone at the age of 11. At age 19 he was described by critic Howard Reich of The Chicago-Tribune as “ a player for whom the word ‘prodigious’ was coined.” Larson has garnered numerous awards that showcase his abilities as a performer and a composer. Among those was being selected as a member of the 2009 National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Jazz Fellows Sextet, receiving the Silver Award for Jazz Saxophone. Continue reading
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
March is Women’s History Month which is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with International Women’s Day on March 8, and during October in Canada, corresponding with the celebration of Persons Day on October 18.
Me, SoSaLa and DooBeeDooBeeDoo join in paying tribute to the generations of women in this country and around the world whose commitment to women rights and social issues have proved invaluable to their respective societies.
My band SoSaLa dedicated this song to all theses great female activists in my home country Iran, in this country and around the world: NU PERSIAN FLAMENCO Continue reading
