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Matt Weston
@tarfumes.bsky.social
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musician - composer
studied with Arthur Brooks, Bill Dixon, and Milford Graves
member of the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V
percussion + electronics
https://mattweston.bandcamp.com
Albany, NY
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Very excited to be playing the Avant Garde A Clue II festival this Tuesday in Rochester, NY! Insane lineup this year.
Matt Weston sitting at a tympani, with several cymbals. Photo by Kylie Spinelli Flyer for the Avant Garde A Clue II festival; unfortunately, there are many, many acts, and the text of the flyer will not fit in the alt text box.
October 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Bill Dixon would have turned 100 today. This clip (with Art Davis) is from the 1981 film Imagine The Sound.
October 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Today would have been Bill Dixon’s 100th birthday. Not a single day goes by where I don’t apply or recall something I learned from him. “The reward has GOT to be that THIS is what you DO.”
1974 performance announcement: thursday, may 9th - 8:15 pm. "LETTERS TO MYSELF FROM OTHERS & TO OTHERS" a musical composition by BILL DIXON to be performed by Bill Dixon & The Black Music Ensemble of Bennington admission is free, all are welcome in the Fine Arts Auditorium, Windham College, Putney, Vermont Black and white photo of Bill Dixon Black and white photo of members of the Black Music Division, Bennington College, 1973. Among those in the photo are Milford Graves, Bill Dixon, Syd Smart, and Arthur Brooks Bill Dixon: "There is more to some areas of music than the dynamic of velocity and density even though (for whatever reason) the attractiveness of that umbilical cord of persuasion that is far often and too easily thought of (by the neophyte and the theoretically more knowledgeable but pseudo cognoscenti) as when 'it's happening.' Ah, that energy. That sweet energy."
October 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Today would have been John Coltrane’s 99th birthday. This photo of him with Bill Dixon at the 1966 Newport Festival was, for years, the only photo I’d seen of Coltrane smiling; Bill told me, “As you can see, I’m probably ranting about something.”
Black and white photo of John Coltrane and Bill Dixon. Coltrane is on the left, in profile, mid-laugh. Dixon is on the right.
September 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Posted on Johnny Echols’ fb page — Townshend is a Love fan!
Love guitarist Johnny Echols is on the left, dressed in a leather coat and black knit cap. He is speaking to Pete Townshend in a backstage green room area. Townshend is wearing a blue jacket, dark blue shirt and white trousers.
September 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I’d heard a few of her songs on the radio — WXRT in Chicago played her records regularly in the ‘80s and early ‘90s — but inexplicably didn’t listen to this until the other day. Such an astoundingly perfect album, with surprising (to me) appearances by Clarke Peters and Kenney Jones.
Ad for Joan Armatrading’s 1976 album, the text of which reads: “I’d never heard of Joan Armatrading, but she knew me.” Last week I was at a party and in the middle of a conversation with some people I heard her voice. I'd never heard a voice like that. 'Joan Armatrading,' somebody said. I'd never heard of her. I moved over near the speakers, sat down, and listened to the album all the way through. I discovered Joan Armatrading. An incredible artist who happens to be a woman. She's been in the places I've been, felt the feelings I've felt. And she expresses them all with her music. JOAN ARMATRADING It's that simple and that beautiful. "Joan Armatrading" On A&M Records and Tapes Produced by Glyn Johns
September 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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1955 Chicago Defender ad for a film/films with the following text: AT ALL THREE THEATRES - MET * OAKLAND * FROLIC 47th & SO. PKWY. 39th & DREXEL 55th & ELLIS STARTS FRIDAY OCT. 21st [For One Week] WONDERCOLOR Rhythm-Packed and Star-Studded! ROCK'N ROLL REVUE LIONEL HAMPTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA NAT "KING" COLE JOE TURNER * DINAH WASHINGTON DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS BAND LARRY DARNELL RUTH BROWN Plus THE CLOVERS COLES & ATKINS A DELTA RHYTHM BOYS LITTLE BUCK + MANTAN MORELAND MARTHA DAVIS # LEONARD REED NIPSEY RUSSELL + M.C. WILLIE BRYANT
September 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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August 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Heard about these guys. Hope they’re good.
August 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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From 1972, L-R: Speedy Keen, Terence Stamp, and Keith Moon backstage at a benefit concert for the French Communist Party, headlined by the Who.

(Terence’s brother Chris was one of the Who’s managers.)
Black and white photo of, from left to right, Soeedy Keen, Terence Stamp, and Keith Moon, standing in front of what appears to be a caravan/trailer in the outdoor backstage area at Le Fête d’Humanitie.
August 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Ozzy told the PMRC and their neo-fascist goons to get fucked. Not one single solitary person on this planet has ever listened to a speech by Tipper Gore or any other fundamentalist Christian dipshit and thought, “This is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.”

R.I.P.
July 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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The pig looks like he’s warning the other pigs.
Cartoon drawing of a pig holding a sign that says “Bacon number one ingredient.” This is on a package of powdered meal topper for dogs.
July 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"The angriest man anyone ever knew was Louis Armstrong singing. I had to tell Archie [Shepp] that one time. I said 'How in the fuck are you gonna be angry?' Listen to him sing 'Hello Dolly,' now there's some anger there. Because he knew how he got to where he was and how long he was gonna be here, 'cause they didn't really dig his trumpet playing. I said to Archie once 'You think you're angry, cause you're always starting up at the mouth. How do you feel a man like Louis felt knowing he's gonna die?' And how he got to where he was not because of his playing, but because of his tomming." -- Bill Dixon
June 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Book cover of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I, only the photo is of riot cops in front of King Donuts in Los Angeles
June 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Someone thought there was a market for Spencer Davis mini dolls in 1968.
Ad for ShowBiz Babies dolls: CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1968 Wait till you get your hands on Davy... THE MONKEES® THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS BOBBIE GENTRY SPENCER DAVIS HERMAN OF THE HERMITS MITCH RYDER The Newest Mini-Doll Sensation from Hasbro® SHOW-BIZ BABIES™ 12 OF YOUR FAVORITE STARS THE MONKEES • MAMAS AND THE PAPAS SPENCER DAVIS EACH WITH RECORD & AUTOGRAPHED PICTURE
June 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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This is gonna rule.
June 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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A weekday Peanuts cartoon from 1971. Linus and Charlie Brown are standing at/leaning on a brick wall. In the first panel, neither character says anything. In the second panel, Linus said, “Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month.” In the third panel, Charlie Brown looks at Linus. In the last panel, Charlie Brown looks upset and says, “That’s the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard.”
May 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Black and white photo of Sun Ra looking at a framed photo of Duke Ellington, who appears to be smiling at Sun Ra.
May 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Great episode, and I’m wondering why I’ve always known “Sweet Pea” but never heard “Dizzy” before. Also surprised Roe never recorded a spoken-word album of his right-wing views, like fellow career-loser Johnny Calhoun.
Homer Simpson is holding a copy of the (fictional) album “These Things I Believe” by Johnny Calhoun. On the album cover, Calhoun is seated in the lap of the Abraham Lincoln Memorial.
May 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Evergreen…
May 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Wait, what?
Screenshot of an Instagram post from Pete Townshend. The text reads, “After many years of great work on drums from Zak the time has come for a change. A poignant time. Zak has lots of new projects in hand and I wish him the best. Scott Devours who has worked with Roger's solo band will join The Who for our Final shows. Please welcome him.”
May 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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If you play “Revolution 9” backwards, a voice says, “Turn me on, Batman.”
Cover of Batman comic book where Batman and Robin, who is holding an album titled “Dead Till Proven Alive,” watch four very Beatle-esque men walk by. Batman says, “Here they come! One of them is dead…but which one?” Robin says, “The clue is on their album cover!”
May 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Tonight at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
Poster for a performance of the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V. The photo is of Brooks playing a flugelhorn against a sunset. The text of the poster reads: ARTHUR BROOKS ENSEMBLE V Thursday May 15 2025 @ 7pm Black Mountain College MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER 120 College St Asheville, NC TICKETS $15 $10 for Members and Students Arthur Brooks | Michael Chorney | Bill Heminway Jeremy Harlos | Anthony Santor | Matt Weston INFO BLACKMOUNTAINCOLLEGE.ORG
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A full-circle moment for me. The Arthur Brooks Ensemble V will be performing at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center on Thursday, May 15. My grandparents were key to the founding of Black Mountain College in the 1930s. www.blackmountaincollege.org/events/arthu...
PERFORMANCE: Arthur Brooks Ensemble V. Arthur Brooks Ensemble V. Thursday, May 15th, 2025 at 7PM. Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 120 College Street. TICKETS - $15 General Admission / $10 BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID.
May 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Not a bad double bill.
Ticket for a show at the Boston Tea Party. Text is black on a lime green background. The text reads: “The Boston Tea Party Presents THE WHO and Roland Kirk. May 13. Outlet.”
May 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM