We “Buy American” whenever we can. The only way to go. Facts are stubborn things.

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WE LOVE A GOOD LIST: And here’s one of our favorites of all time, and damned if we aren’t beaming with pride to be included on it in the form of a little deal we call, “Field Notes”: The ever-impressive A Continuous Lean’s impressive, “The American List.”

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SOMETHING WE’RE FLIPPING THROUGH RIGHT NOW: Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music. Nicely designed, but maybe a little too clean for the content within. I mean, it’s a meticulously curated book, and the presentation is clean and beautiful and well thought out, but, it’s like, I want to see this stuff at the bottom of a closet or something, and, what would that look like in a book? Maybe I’m just dick? Yeah, that. Cool book. Recommended by the DDC.

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THAT TOWN WILL BREAK YER HEART: 100 Abandoned Houses is a photo project that documents exactly what is says, all over Detroit. The city I was born in.

All those houses. All those lives. So many ghosts. (Dale Allen Dixon, pride of Lansing, Mich., sent this one in to me over iChat. Real digital.)

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GREAT, GREAT PROCESS: A page from Craig Thompson’s upcoming Habibi graphic novel. Made right here in Portland. Nice, nice guy. Met him a couple years back through my buddy Kurtie. Speaking of, Kurt, you gotta come by the shop. Missing you real bad.

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ON THE PLAYER AS THIS GOES TO PRINT:

01. Devils and Dust by The Boss.
02. Boom by The Sonics.
03. The Arizona Record by the Silver Jews.