In With the New.

There are two new places for you to go now instead of here. Both are highly specialized and monitored by gentlemen with copious levels of talent of different sorts. Both blogs are also new, so stick around and just wait for them to blow up and then thank me for telling you about them and somehow I should probably get paid for this.

The first is Destination: Out!, which focuses on the wonderful and not covered in Blogtown realm of free jazz. More specifically, rare and out-of-print free jazz. The two guys you'll see sitting behind the counter are Professor Drew LeDrew and Chilly Jay Chill, still ass'd with Chemistry Class, a (formerly weekly but monthly of late) stop for me when I need to learn about things I don't know, like Jackie McLean and Derek Bailey, and lots of other unappreciated geniuses who didn't die recently. Oh, and Encyclopedia Brown got a mention once. But back to the new one. Go there and you'll learn something about John Zorn you didn't know before. I did.

The second one is a bit closer to me, both geographically and in terms of friendship. It's called The Anchor Center, and it already holds the designation of being the first indie rock video blog worth a shit. Mostly because it's curated by my former pupil Pete Ohs, who plans on producing featurettes on bands who come through the bar Alchemize in Cincinnati. His first feature is on Aberdeen City, and upcoming ones are slated to include Margot & the Nuclear So & So's, Sound Team, and Film School. Pete is one of the most talented video students I've taught, and it shows (for other bloggers, he's also the press contact for the Desdemona festival). He uses a news magazine style, alternating between artist interviews (conducted, shot and lit by himself) and live performance footage. And if you're wondering, "what does this Pete Ohs person look like, exactly?", no fear, he's all over that bitch. Just wait. If he keeps it up, I give this thing like two months before it's huge.