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Japanese edition of Letur-Lefr comes with a poster painting!
While we're eagerly waiting for more music, pictures, hints about the album and song titles and all the other usual fun stuff; the visual side of Letur-Lefr just got better! There's something you will be able to hang it in your own little creative space... a fold-out poster.
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Feeding Back – comp winner, more JF excerpts
The awesome book “Feeding Back – Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from proto-punk to post-rock†is being released today and our competition winner is announced - congratulations to Peter, entry #42. And yesterday, Music Radar posted a bigger with John on their website - by reading it, one can have a really good perspective of what his motives are right now.
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PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone track listing, with bonus tracks
Two days after the announcement of John's 11th full-length album, PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone, track listing has been revealed for the Japanese folks, through their distributers. The track previously announced as a free prequel to the album, Walls and Doors is listed as the bonus track, so is an an acapella version of one of the album's own songs.
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Ian MacKaye on John, from Ultimate Guitar interview
In an interview done early this month, prior to the announcement of John's new releases, his friend and the Minor Threat/Fugazi/The Evens frontman Ian MacKaye shared a couple of thoughts on the maestro's philosophy and called him a genius. He also said that he believes John is "pursuing something that has not yet been made" and "therefore cannot be described". Mysterious?
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Letur-Lefr EP in July, PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone LP in September!
Just like it was reported John is releasing Letur-Lefr EP in July and you can pre-order it, but that is not where it stops, as a full-length album named PBX Funicular Intaglio Zone is set to drop late in September; and we'll also get a free download of a song named Walls and Doors. The maestro plays all instruments and he engineered the albums by himself. As far as I-M.net is concerned, the world can end after this, if it wants to!
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Guitar World’s Greatest Guitarists poll: John vs Omar
As if the cup system wasn't irritating enough in various sport competitions, the editors and staff of Guitar World have come up with The Greatest Guitarist of All Time poll, based entirely on readers' input. The first round has been going on throughout May and in one of the last head-to-head polls, they put John against his friend and collaborator, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. Weird? Unfair? Both?
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Letur-Lefr, John’s new solo release, out 9th July!
It's been a long time coming, but this wait was totally worth the while! John is going to release a new five-song EP titled Letur-Lefr this summer. He's also created artwork for it. The EP will be released in multiple formats, including cassette tapes. More information on this to follow soon, so...stay tuned and be happy!
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Feeding Back – new book on alt. guitarists. Fresh JF interview!
David Todd's "Feeding Back - Conversations with Alternative Guitarists from proto-punk to post-rock" is out next month and there's a lengthy and fresh interview with John in it. An excerpt of it and author's exclusive notes written just for the visitors of this website can be read here. If you're from USA or Canada, you can also win a copy of the book!
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John on a BIGDOXX + NDT track
John is featured on another hot new piece coming out fresh from the Neurotic Yell Records kitchen. This time it's a 1-track digital EP by BIGDOXX + NDT, titled DOXXOLOGY with a song called Indigenous Rhythm. Check it out!
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Reactions to RHCP in Hall of Fame
The Red Hots are preparing a digital EP with covers they did of other Hall of Fame artists' songs. John is on most of them, as these recordings already existed as parts of various releases. In other news, his dad was approached and asked about Hall of Fame and he said he's proud of his son.
