Avant-tarde

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- I'm feeling very 'blah.' Can you help me?

- Oh, sure I can - check out this blog here.

- What? There's something new on this blog? Impossible.

- No, really, it's true. It's a new hour-long mix by Reynard Seifert.

- Isn't that the guy who posted mixes on this blog every week for forty weeks until he 'sold out' to American Apparel's Viva Radio and stopped bothering with this blog?

- Totally, that's the guy.

- I hate that guy.

- Me too, but this is a pretty good mix, he made it for Fecal Face but they didn't post it so he's posting it here, maybe you should check it out.

- Are there going to be more soon by other people?

- Yes, soon.

- Really? Soon?

- I swear to Jebus.

- What's been going on with that whole Viva Radio thing?

- You mean California Select?

- That's the one.

- It's been going pretty well. Reynard's sharing the reigns to AA photographer and vintage-maven Mae Kaufman every once in a while, and there are going to be some guest shows coming up.

- What kind of guest shows?

- Well, there's going to be a radical mix by Patrick Healy in a couple weeks.

- Wasn't he one of the Zom Zoms?

- Yeah, and he has a new band called Pataphysics.

- Alright, what else?

- There's going to be a mix by Tao Lin that will include Tao giving shoplifting instructions for like ten minutes.

- Woah, isn't that the famous author whose novella Shoplifting From American Apparel is coming out in September?

- Yeah, it's going to be pretty wild, possibly even 'controversial.'

- Sounds really dumb.

- Fully. Tao already blogged about the playlist.

- Anything else?

- Reynard and his girlfriend are going to start publishing e-zines on haha clever dot com, which is just a tumblr right now, but will eventually be an amazing website, much better than this one. Their first e-zine will be zzzombiezzz, a short story about Reynard's epic battle with a zombie named Amherst who once slept on his chaise lounge.

- I meant, 'Anything else music-wise?'

- Oh, yeah. Reynard's also going to start hosting a new program on Youth Radio that may or may not be called 'Calling All Kids,' which will seek to introduce America's youth to artists that are influencing today's most interesting music makers and also include interviews with some of those people and their music.

- So it will pretty much be the coolest music program for kids (as well as adults) ever made?

- Yup, it's going to be pretty epic.

- This is like, a lot of information and I'm still feeling very 'blah.'

- Have you downloaded Avant-tarde yet?

- Oh, I forgot. Thanks a lot, whoever you are.

- No problem. You can call me 'fuck face.'