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Maharadja Sweets premiere on Allston Pudding

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Anna Marketti and Boston’s blog for underground music, Allston Pudding, premiered an excerpt from cassette label head Maharadja Sweets’ contribution to Waywords and Meansigns. Discussing this contribution to Waywords and Meansigns, Maharadja Sweets revealed, “working on this project was the […]

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Flavorwire’s Alternate Routes Column on Waywords and Meansigns

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Waywords and Meansigns was profiled in Flavorwire’s Alternate Routes column by Jesse Jarnow. Jarnow clearly gets what we’re about as a mega-music project, released without record labels and in the realm of creative commons rather than copyright: “the possibilities of […]

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Disinfo on James Joyce and Star Wars

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Bobby Campbell published an article on the site Disinformation exploring the connections between Finnegans Wakeand Star Wars, complete with Campbell’s killer illustration of James Joyce the Jedi. This is a very cool topic, and we were honored to be mentioned […]

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Neil Campbell Reviewed in The Wire

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We are thrilled to see that Neil Campbell’s chapter-long contribution to Waywords and Meansigns was reviewed by Dan Barrow in the February issue of The Wire magazine: “Covering just over 20 pages of the book and a little more than […]

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Star Wars and Finnegans Wake

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by Sara Jewell Polish writer and translator Krzysztof Bartnicki is no stranger to the multitudes contained within Finnegans Wake, having spent ten years translating the entire book into Polish. While the musicality of Finnegans Wake has always played a large […]

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Waywords and Meansigns in Fiction

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Australian author Denis Fitzpatrick has immortalized Waywords and Meansigns and project director Derek Pyle in absolutely delightful short story, published by The Short Story Club. It’s a love story and we are central to the falling in:  ‘Adonis, you’ve heard […]

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Grammy Award-Winning Producer David Kahne on Setting Finnegans Wake to Music

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“You may not know David Kahne’s name but you will almost certainly have heard his music. A Grammy-winning American record producer and composer, Kahne has worked with the likes of Paul McCartney, the Strokes and Stevie Nicks (to name but […]

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Public Radio and Mass Review

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Waywords and Meansigns was featured this week on public radio! Lauren Tuiskula of New England Public Radio (WFCR) covered the story, with a focus on the musicians of Massachusetts and Hampshire College. In the interview project director Derek Pyle discussed […]

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Sara Jewell Illustrates Joyce

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What happened when James Joyce first heard Waywords and Meansigns? He flipped his freaking lid!

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