RESIDENCY TO FEATURE PERFORMANCES BY LEO ALLEN, FRED ARMISEN, PETER CAREY, GRAHAM PARKER, AMY SOHN, DAN ZANES AND many other Special Guests NPR IS EXCLUSIVE BROADCAST SYNDICATION PARTNER “A vaudeville night that combines music and literature, resulting in one of the finest nights of entertainment this city has to offer.”—The New Yorker  “Inspired silliness…the audience roared in …

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    Some of you may feel you’ve been taking this course for years, and it’s nice that someone finally bothered to lay it out. Others may suspect I’ve put this together as an elaborate “Confessions of St Ace”-like hoax But no! This is Professor Gilbert Gigliotti’s course at CCSU and I’d like to thank …

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  The End   It’ll end with a bang It’ll end with a gun It’ll end with a chorus Then another one It’ll end in ten minutes And too many beers It might struggle on To the end of this year It’ll end with the credits And a copyright sign It’ll end with a ticket …

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The Times Literary Supplement kindly gave me permission to reprint my review of Matt Thorne’s Prince biography. An edited version of this piece appeared in the 12/7 edition of the TLS.   Prince by Matt Thorne — Review by Wesley Stace   In the Royal Family of Popular Music, there has been more than one …

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Wes reviews the Neil Young book  Waging Heavy Peace for the Wall Street Journal.

Tell us to win! Yep Roc Records has a challenge for you. After the premiere of “Making Love to Bob Dylan,” where Wes and Janeane Garofalo disagree on the merits of making love to Dylan songs, we wanted to see whose side you were on; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzrhWif_Y6Y&feature=plcp There are three ways to enter: head to http://nobobdylan.com/submit or http://yesbobdylan.com/submit and “Tumbl” …

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I would like to greatly thank these radio stations who are currently airing the Cabinet of Wonders!

with best wishes from all inside the Cabinet

I will be releasing a Double-A side, or possibly Double B-side, single in a short while. And here I’d like to exclusively reveal the lyrics to one of those two songs: “Making Love To Bob Dylan” as played at a couple of recent Cabinets of Wonders. My best wishes to all, Wes. Making Love To …

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  WVPE – Elkhart, IN Sundays at 11pm starting May 27   WXPN – Philadelphia, PA Tuesdays at 8pm starting May 29   NORTH COUNTRY PUBLIC RADIO – Canton, NY Fridays at 7pm starting June 1   WFUV – Bronx, NY Wednesdays at 1pm starting June 13 Fridays at 9pm starting June 15   WLTR …

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