75 Dollar Bill "olives in the ears"

"Rick Brown (V-Effect , Run On and more) was born in San Francisco, CA and is a clerical worker at a law school in NYC. Che Chen (True Primes) was born in New Haven, CT and works for a cancer diagnostics company in Stonybrook, NY. They met via myspace and started playing together as 75 Dollar Bill approximately eight years later. Brown plays percussion and homemade horns and Chen plays electric guitar."

ヨ・ラ・テンゴ、トータスにも縁あるNY DOWN TOWN / エクスペリメンタル・ミュージックのベテラン、リック・ブラウン（Fish & Roses, Les Batteries, Peach Cobbler, Run On, Timber, V-Effect）が、myspaceを通じて出会ったNYのマルチ・インストゥルメンタリスト、２年前には来日してAsunaと共演もしているチェ・チェン（one half of True Primes）とのプロジェクト。アラビックなキャプテン・ビーフハートと聴こえてくるようなオモシロさも。




released 17 June 2014
Rick Brown: percussion and cardboard tubes on "C.T.F.M.T."
Che Chen: electric guitar and cardboard tubes on "C.T.F.M.T."
guest musicians:
Sue Garner: vocal and maraca on "Yes We Can Can"
Andrew Lafkas: contrabass on "WZN#3"
Karen Waltuch: viola on "WZN#3"
"WZN#3" recorded live at Troost cafe, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. 2/8/14
"Yes We Can Can" recorded live at Troost cafe, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY. 11/9/13

Dump "Superpowerless" reissue

painting by Sue Garner

Morr Music set to reissue 1993’s "SUPERPOWERLESS" (as 2LP/CD) album by Dump, a lo-fi home recording project by James McNew (Yo La Tengo)! Available on March 19th. Stream the album on PopMatters, HERE. Also, 1994's "I Can Hear Music" (as 3LP/2CD) and a collector's 5LP-Box ("Superpowerless" 2LP and "I Can Hear Music" 3LP) is available.


Dump -Superpowerless


"The year was 1994. Americans thrilled to the latest episodes of "Friends" and "Frasier," assholes smoked cigars in public with impunity, the New York Knicks lost to the Houston Rockets in the NBA finals, and Lo-Fi music was sweeping the nation!
Largely due to the astronomical success of Dump's debut album, Superpowerless, the music world shifted dramatically away from the grandeur of Grunge and the pomp and circumstance of Alternative Rock. Following Dump's lead, bands had turned away from the bloated, inaccessible recording studio system and embraced 4-track cassette recording as the industry standard. In his memorable article for Rockpool, Steven Hawking described this new musical phenomenon as "Lo-Fi." --an excerpt from the Liner Notes by James MacNew himself