Alan Licht is a musician, author, and curator based in New York.
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BILL ORCUTT, A MECHANICAL JOEY (Fake Estates)
Orcutt built this whole album from a sample of Joey Ramone counting off “One, two, three, four, five, six,” relentlessly looping and permutating it for thirty-five phantasmagoric minutes. A conceptual masterstroke, it pinpoints and illuminates the Ramones’ inner minimalism.
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75 DOLLAR BILL (People’s Pavilion, Columbus Park, New York, August 29)
The sound clash that wasn’t: An expanded version of this percussion-and-guitar duo inadvertently faced off against a nearby troupe of Chinese