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October 29, 2020
SOLO Set for “Shelter in Place” Sessions
Full SOLO set up until Nov 5th on Southwest Roots Festival’s YouTube Channel
The Carter Family's "When The World's On Fire" for "Shelter in Place" sessions. https://bit.ly/2GgJqey
October 23, 2020
Ceramic Dog LiveStream Concert October 23, 8pm EST!
Teaser for Ceramic Dog’s Oct 23 Livestream for Big Ears on the roof of St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn. 42 hour replay with advance ticket purchase.
Tix at bigearsfestival.org/ceramicdog/
October 2, 2020
New Ceramic Dog EP Release + LiveStream Concert on Sale Today!
NEW CERAMIC DOG EP OUT TODAY!
For Marc's next Bandcamp First Fridays release (OUT TODAY - Oct 2nd), Ceramic Dog shares six new tunes out of fourteen recorded during quarantine as a special digital EP, What I Did On My Long 'Vacation', (with 200 limited edition CDs) exclusively on Marc's Bandcamp page. The remaining nine songs will be out in Spring 2021 as a full album release.
Read Marc's statement on the making of the EP/LP HERE.
CERAMIC DOG'S FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE TO BE STREAMED OCTOBER 23RD!
In collaboration with the Big Ears Festival and from the rooftop of St Ann's Warehouse at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, Ceramic Dog plays tunes from the new EP and upcoming 2021 full LP!
FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 8PM EST
(AVAILABLE TO BE VIEWED THROUGH MIDNIGHT SUN OCT 25)
Tickets on sale Friday (Oct. 2) at 10am
August 7, 2020
Digital Reissue of “Requiem For What’s-His-Name” for #BandcampFriday
Bandcamp has announced #BandcampFIrstFridays will extend until the end of the year, when they waive 100% of their revenue shares in support of Artists during these unprecedented times. So, Marc will be dusting off some files from the archives along with some new music for a series of Bandcamp releases! Follow Marc on Bandcamp or sign up on his email list for release updates.
Now on Bandcamp
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First up (OUT - August 7), Marc reissues for digital his long out-of-print, Requiem For-What's-His-Name.
Originally released in 1992 and his second release as a bandleader, Marc is joined by cohorts Anthony Coleman on keys, saxophonist Roy Nathanson, bassist Brad Jones, drummer Sim Cain, and multi-reed player, the late great Ralph Carney as Rootless Cosmopolitans. Take a journey back and revisit original anthems and classic renditions such as "Yo! I Killed Your God" and Ellington's "Caravan" respectively.
April 28, 2020
A CALL BY MUSICAL ARTISTS FOR BASIC FAIRNESS IN THE DIGITAL MARKETPLACE
John Zorn, Beth Orton, Bill Frisell, Mekons, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Laurie Anderson, Panda Bear, Rosanne Cash, Thao Nguyen, Crystal Waters, Boots Riley, Bela Fleck, and more musicians have signed a petition from Music Workers Alliance that aims to help artists who are all struggling during the coronavirus pandemic and calls for "basic fairness in the digital marketplace"
Read & Sign the Petition
Read coverage on BrooklynVegan
December 28, 2018
Best of 2018 Lists for “YRU Still Here?” and "Songs of Resistance"
2018 saw the release of two albums by Marc and they both landed on a few 'Best of' lists!
Ceramic Dog "YRU Still Here?"
Northern Spy (US), Yellowbird (Europe), P-Vine (Japan)
Something Else! Best Album of the Year
Aquarium Drunkard
New Haven Independent
ABC (Spain)
Il Giornale della Musica (Italy)
The Sydney Morning Herald
Songs of Resistance: 1942-2018
Anti- Records
No Depression
NPR All Songs Considered
MagnetAll Music
The Indypendent
Slate
The Tallahassee
The Sydney Morning Herald
The MusicWay Magazine (Italy)
December 4, 2018
"Songs of Resistance" included on NPR's All Songs Considered The Year in Music 2018!
November 15, 2018
New Album, Songs Of Resistance 1942-2018
Out now ANTI- Records
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“Every movement which has ever won anything has had songs,” says accomplished New York City guitarist Marc Ribot. For his new political album Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 – with a September 14 release date on ANTI- Records - Ribot set out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with appropriate ambition, passion, and fury.
The eleven songs on the record include a few original compositions as well as traditional songs that are drawn from World War II anti-Fascist Italian partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement and Mexican protest ballads. It also features a wide range of guest vocalists, including
Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam Amidon, and Ohene Cornelius, Tift Merritt, Domenica Fossati, Syd Straw.
At a time of such overwhelming social turmoil, finding a focus for this kind of project is challenging. Nevertheless, Ribot’s purpose remained clear. “There’s a lot of contradiction in doing any kind of political music,” he says, “how to act against something without becoming it, without resembling what you detest. Sometimes it is hard to figure out what to do, and I imagine we’ll make mistakes, and hopefully, learn from them. But I knew this from the moment Donald Trump was elected: I’m not going to play downtown scene Furtwangler to any orange-comb-over dictator wannabe. No way.”
Portions of the album’s proceeds will be donated to The Indivisible Project, an organization that helps individuals resist the Trump agenda via grassroots movements in their local communities. More info on The Indivisible Project can be found at www.indivisible.org.
November 1, 2018
Donald Trump: RATA DE DOS PATAS (Rat with Two Legs)
DON’T DESPAIR: MOBILIZE! VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6th!
VOLUNTEER/ PHONE BANK / CANVASS: Swing Left https://swingleft.org / Rise and Resist https://www.riseandresist.org / Voto Latino http://votolatino.org
“We support all Democratic candidates running in the November 6 2018 midterm elections. We need to stop Donald Trump and his enablers. The days between now and the November 6th midterm elections will be the most important of our political lives. We need to flip 24 seats to retake the House. You can make a difference by phone banking and canvassing."
Paquita la del Barrio didn’t mince words when she was calling out the bad guy in “Rata De Dos Patas” (Rat with Two Legs):
Rata inmunda, Filthy rat
animal rastrero, creeping animal
escoria de la vida, scum of life
adefecio mal hecho, deformed monstrosity
infra-humano, sub human
espectro del infierno, specter of hell
maldita sabandija, accursed worm
cuanto daño me has hecho, how much damage you have done to me
Listen to the full version of Rata de dos Patas here: https://spoti.fi/2OiG9ZV or http://bit.ly/2DfF6sLVideo by Nye Taylor.
Artwork/Graffiti by Al Diaz.
