We like to support the artistic/entrepreneurial efforts of Thor’s Rubber Hammer artists past and present. Heather McIntosh (The Instruments, Circulatory System, Lil Wayne) has set up a Kickstarter account not only to help German krautrock pioneers Faust travel to Athens, Georgia, but also to fund recordings of the tour. After seeing Faust’s incredible performance last [...]

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It was finally time to separate my personal twitter account (@totalvibration) from the goings-on of Thor’s Rubber Hammer. Please follow @TRHProd for up-to-speed info, more concert announcements and other such outer-limits goodness.

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I’ll be manning the ESP Disk’ table at the High Zero Festival this weekend in Baltimore. In addition to peddling ESP free-jazz to the improv masses, there will be a crate full of Thor’s Rubber Hammer goodies for sale, including the new Mothguts and Beru releases coming out very, very soon. Come say hi!

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I Heart Lung just posted a 30-minute set recorded live at The Prospector in Long Beach, Calif., on the duo’s site. It’s 100% improvised and includes a version of John Coltrane’s “Seraphic Light” and a particularly crunchy take on “Axes Only,” originally recorded for I Heart Lung’s entry in the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series.
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