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Andy Valeri, Big Beef Productions

Surreal News For The Masses, Circa 1970

They certainly don’t make news intros like this anymore, that’s for sure… Yet for some reason something about it seems to have a...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Tod Weidner - "Favorites"

My friend Tod Weidner has a tremendous new piece of work which came out recently. Drumming on it (and on a lot of his recent west coast...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

‘We were once paid $50 to quit.' - DEVO

A good read, and a good reminder about where things like Devo come from, along with what drives the use of culture and art to create and...

Andy Valeri; Big Beef Productions

Godspeed, Tony Bennett - Great Singer, Great American, Great Human Being

"Tony Bennett, who was demoted for having dinner with a Black friend in the military, who hunted Nazis and helped liberate concentration...

Andy Valeri, Big Beef Productions

Cultural Poptones

Was loving this stuff back in school. Still do, really. The cultural absurdity of it. Or the absurdity of culture, whichever way you want...

Andy Valeri, Big Beef Productions

The Walls Come Tumblin’ Down

Rev. Billy and Savitri D. and their ongoing work with the Church of Stop Shopping, including their Earth Riot Radio series, are real...