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Mark Kirby received his B.A. from Oberlin College back in the days when heroin was harder to find than pot and sex didn't kill you. He is a drummer, screenwriter, and fixture in the bars and clubs of N.Y.'s Lower East Side and the current mecca of the New Bohemia, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When not mining his past for the bizarre, weird and unseemly experiences that are the impetus of his short fiction, Kirby is hard at work writing paranoid, political rants and cultural criticism for various printed and online magazines such as Agree/Disagree, AltarNative, and Dream Forge online magazines. He is currently serving beers at various bars in Brooklyn and Manhattan, N.Y.

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Future Psychediscorama With Koko Dozo's Illegal Space Aliens
...for all the outer spaceness of Koko Dozo's image and electronic sounds, the music on Illegal Space Aliens is rooted in the organic soil of the disco, funk and soul of a bygone era. Read
By: Mark Kirby | 28/05/2008 | Music
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A CD Review of Mashed Buddha's 'zen Conspiracy'
Mashed Buddha conceives of his songs and his entire records in compositional terms. In other words, on Zen Conspiracy he keeps things moving like in any good story. Read
By: Mark Kirby | 06/05/2008 | Music
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A Review of Sweet Tea; a CD by Hills Rolling
With all this in his musical blender, he has come up with a record that is like a meal with different foods, different flavors, and quite tasty. Read
By: Mark Kirby | 14/04/2008 | Music
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Charles Laster II & Silvia Pratesi: Believe What You Say and See
Their songs reference salvation, heaven, and living the Christian life but, like secular soul music, have an uplifting universality. Read
By: Mark Kirby | 02/04/2008 | Music
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Nightdancers' Montana Crossings: Flute Music of Transformation
The music on their CD Montana Crossings is both ethereal and earthy, reflecting the unitary, all-is-one world view common to Native American cosmology Read
By: Mark Kirby | 26/03/2008 | Music
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Julie Moffitt: Belle of the Tunes
Strong piano playing and passionate singing come through on "She Has Become" and the elegiac "Dancing Man" in a way that recalls the Bronx, NY native Laura Nyro. Read
By: Mark Kirby | 24/03/2008 | Music
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Hobbyhorse: Sunshine Superteam Re-imagines Folk Psychedelia
Hobbyhorse's new CD, Break in the Clouds, captures the essence of psychedelia, that other-worldly concern with mythology, the occult, the fantastic, and visions from altered states (chemically induced or not). Read
By: Mark Kirby | 28/02/2008 | Music
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Trepanning the Light Fantastic: Cevin Soling Gives you a Hole in the Head
Inspired by an offhand comment and following a trail of rumors, Mr. Soling discovered a group of people, trepanauts if you will, who practice this form of surgery that had been prevalent in ancient civilizations found in Africa, South America and the Far East. Read
By: Mark Kirby | 21/02/2008 | Movies
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Review: Chewy is Chewy Good
Band co-founders Lorrie Ruiz and Joe Doria have created a tight musical unit and a satisfying record. Ms. Ruiz' voice is authentically soulful and Doria's Hammond Organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano captures the sound and feeling of the McCann, Joe Zawinul (yeah, he played in Weather Report but check out his song "Country Preacher" with Cannonball Adderly for the essence of soulful piano) and other keyboardists from back in the day. Read
By: Mark Kirby | 28/11/2007 | Music