What’s Ballerina Black building in there? In their own words, an email detailing their delicately macabre, perilously dazzling upcoming plans: It feels a bit like mischief torn in place.. as if there was something sacred that breached the atmosphere then violently exploded. A projection of slow-motion shrapnal elegantly falling back to earth. This release entitled
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I’ve returned from South By Southwest victorious and somewhat delirious. Hopefully you followed me on Twitter or kept up with the widget on the sidebar to your right. If you did the former, you got to see SXSW through my eyes as it happened through photographs and small bites. If you performed at SXSW, congratulations
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Is this thing on? Cool. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ESLI SUGICH! (Esli Sugich is an integral part of Ballerina Black. He’s in his mid-early twenties today. We’re having a party for him, maybe you’ll be there!) HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARTIE LOVE. (Artie Love has his hand in a million things. He’s a hustler. Much respect.) Happy new year
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Editor’s Note: Mere moments after I published this, pictures of rainbows appeared all over my Twitter feed. Proof that when I’m on a mission to get shit done, I do. There you go. Since I went to Big Bear, I haven’t gone a single day without rain. It’s infringing on my productivity and Santa Claus
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It’s the State of the Hallucination Holidaze Edition! I’m writing this whilst most people frolic and cavort around town. It’s the final Saturday-Night-Before Christmas 2010. My Twitter feed is composed of more digital mayhem than usual (with a Scrooge or two on the loose) and I have got to tell you how Christmas goes down
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We’re commemorating Christmas early this year with KROQ and the band I can’t seem to shut up about, Ballerina Black. Since we all missed out on Almost Acoustic Christmas this year, we’re really happy that we’re still getting into the holiday spirit with one of Southern California’s most iconic radio stations; better yet, we’re doing
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Happy belated birthday to Kerry Brown! I wish him and everybody from Smashing Pumpkins a lot of love and fun at this year’s KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. Kerry has been in the music industry for a long time, and thanks to his kindness and candor, I’m in the midst of writing a feature that encompasses
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I’m back. I missed you. That was a weird vacation. I’m writing this from my home, where I am currently being threatened by the sound of escalating water pressure through some very old, very uncooperative pipes. Since I house a lot of electronics and musical instruments, I’m not pleased with what this could portend in
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Today is my birthday and I am the trick my mother played on the world! All hail me! It turns out that the band I cannot stop listening to sent me a birthday gift in the form of their latest video! Guess who? Why, it’s BALLERINA BLACK. Microphones In The Mattress happens to be one
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