PopCanon -- a Pynchon-inspired band

[The Great Quail]

Some of you may have heard of the rock band PopCanon, an unsigned 
group from Gainesville, Florida. The Libyrinth -- the pomo lit site I 
edit -- promotes them cheerfully, because they have weirdly literate 
songs about people like Pynchon, Joyce, Borges, Eco, Coover, Derrida, 
and others. They sound a bit like an unholy union between They Might 
Be Giants, XTC, Camper Van Beethoven, and a bus crash between a ska 
and klezmer band, and one of their songs is "Wanda Tinasky," an odd 
ditty about our favorite reclusive novelist. (With respect to all the 
J.D. Salinger and Kilgore Trout fans on the List.)

Anyway, they are going on a small tour of the Eastern states, where 
they are basically opening for other bands. Their schedule is:

Saturday 4 March at the Galaxy Hut, Arlington VA
Sunday 5 March at Pontiac Grill, Philadelphia PA
Tuesday 7 March at the Spiral Lounge, NYC
Wednesday 8 March at the Velvet Lounge, Washington DC
Thursday 9 March at The Rawbar, Wilmington (Wrightsville Bch) NC
Friday 10 March at Caledonia, Athens GA
Saturday 11 March at the Club, Duluth GA

And you can read more about them at:

http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_music_popcanon.html

Anyway, I just thought I'd mention . . . I personally will be at the 
NYC show. If anyone does decide to check them out, let me know what 
you think!

--Quail
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The Great Quail, Keeper of the Libyrinth:
http://www.libyrinth.com

"Countlessness of livestories have netherfallen by this plage, flick 
as flowflakes, litters from aloft, like a waast wizzard all of 
whirlworlds. Now are all tombed to the mound, isges to isges, erde 
from erde . . . (Stoop) if you are abcedminded, to this claybook, 
what curious of signs (please stoop) in this allaphbed! Can you rede 
(since We and Thou had it out already) its world? . . . Speak to us 
of Emailia!"
          --James Joyce, Finnegans Wake