HeyJaredLANDLINE by Jay Babcock
An almanac/newsletter of ideas, nudges and recommendations that hopefully form a small bailiwick outside the cruddiness at large, from the founding editor of Arthur Magazine.
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[Landline] Significant others (opens the original)
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Hello friends,Nice to see you again! Here’s a few things…1. DESTINATION: OUTTo help mark this week of John Coltrane’s centenary, here are two long pieces from the Arthur archives that are still dear to my heart. The first is from Arthur’s third issue, published in 2003, when we ran an extended excerpt from Ashley Kahn’s terrific work of scholarship, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Supreme-Story-Coltranes-Signature/dp/0142003522?dchild=1&keywords=ashley+kahn&qid=1633993199&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl
[Landline] They were Devo. She was Ursula K. Le Guin. (opens the original)
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Hello friends,It’s time for another edition of Landline’s informal cultural retrieval service series, spotlighting feature articles from the non-archives of the ‘70s mainstream music press.This time out we’ve got Paul Morley’s 1979 encounter with Devo in Los Angeles (“For the next couple of hours, Jerry [Casale] is to do most of the talking. The smirk of superiority will never leave his face”), with photography by Pennie Smith, for Britain’s weekly New Musical Express (NME)…<a class="image-link
[Landline] What’s your scene, man (opens the original)
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Sponsors play a pivotal role in keeping Landline a going concern. You interested? Please email me directly (or simply reply to this email) for advertising/sponsorship rates, which are offered on a sliding scale. Thanks.Hello friends,No grand thesis or throughline this time, just some random things that I’ve come across in the last couple of weeks that I feel compelled to share.<str
[Landline] Thinking men (opens the original)
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[Landline special] Love’s ambassador (opens the original)
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