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APRIL 10, 2024
THE JAZZ-BINS ON MEZZO TV FRANCE

If you're in France, check out The Jazz-Bins - Live at Banlieues Bleues from
April 2023 on Mezzo TV starting today with rebroadcast throughout April!

The Jazz-Bins: Marc Ribot, Greg Lewis, Joe Dyson excerpt from Banlieues Bleues

If you're in the the Mid-West, you can catch them live starting tonight in
Milwaukee!
April 10 | Milwaukee, WI | Vivarium
April 11 | Minneapolis, MN | Dakota
April 12 | Berwyn, IL | FitzGerald’s
April 13 | Cleveland, OH | Bop Stop





OCT 2, 2023
WTF W/ MARC MARON

This week's WTF w/ Marc Maron podcast is a special double episode: Les Claypool
/ Marc Ribot !!

Les reveals his favorite guitar solo ever…listen to find out!

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1475-les-claypool-marc-ribot





JULY 14, 2023
CERAMIC DOG CONNECTON IS OUT TODAY!

CONNECTION available on CD/LP/Digital

“ Ceramic Dog, a power trio of jazz geniuses who inflect literate rock with
formidable chops. The synthesis is frenetic, potent, and at odds with the
zeitgeist, even if Ribot’s lyrics decry today’s political oppression: Musically,
he rejects both the voguish and the virtuosic in favor of his own whims…His
progressive sentiments are welcome, and unfortunately more relevant than ever.”
-Pitchfork

"On Ceramic Dog (which also features Shahzad Ismaily and Ches Smith),
Connection, the prolific guitarist and bandleader continues to showcase his
versatility through noisy jazz freakouts, Jesus Lizard-like noise rock rippers,
and occasionally some dirty funk...With Ribot, an album is never just one style,
never simply one thing, and Connection finds him following that instinct to
fantastic effect.”
-Treblezine

"Connection is the fifth Ceramic Dog studio album and finds Ribot, Ismaily and
Smith sounding particularly fired up, both lyrically and musically. -Brooklyn
Vegan

"Different styles sit side by side on Connection, which showcases a challenging,
exciting, and extremely rewarding listen from angular start to its fully
inspired finish." - Glide Magazine

"Hallucinated yet illuminated, there’s guts and progressive activism in a
revolutionary new recording that’s definitely worth digging into." - JazzTrail



JUNE 21, 2023


CERAMIC DOG RELEASE THEIR 2ND SINGLE, ‘SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY OF LOVE’, THEIR
ANTHEMIC MANIFESTO FROM UPCOMING ALBUM, CONNECTION!

photo by Ebru Yildiz

LISTEN TO “SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY OF LOVE” 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident...” Sound familiar? Ah, they were off
to such a good start! But then they fucked it up: “...that all men are created
equal”. Yup folks, they really wrote that. What about women? Non-multi-queer-and
other gendered humans? Even worse— when they said “men”, they meant "white men".
Oy. What a mess. [And yet, if there’s nothing “we” hold to be self-evident,
there’s no “we”, right?  Big problem.] But its all ok now. Ceramic Dog fixed it!
"We hold these truths to be self-evident…that all PEOPLE are created equal…[for
example] Muslim Jewish Black White Yellow Brown Gay Straight are all created
equal.” (would have added a bunch of other varieties of PEOPLE too, but ran out
of 8th notes).”  - M. Ribot


JUNE 15, 2023
MARC ON GILES PETERSON’S BROWNSWOOD BASEMENT



Beloved UK DJ Giles Peterson sits with Marc in his studio to listen to music,
diving deep into Marc’s 40+ year career as both a sideman & leader, as well as a
short performance for BBC6 Brownswood Basement









MAY 22, 2023


CERAMIC DOG’S 5TH STUDIO ALBUM, CONNECTION, TO BE RELEASED JULY 14TH AND ON TOUR
STARTING JUNE 8TH!




THE FIRST SINGLE AND TITLE TRACK ‘CONNECTION’ IS OUT TODAY AND ALBUM PRE-ORDERS
AVAILABLE NOW ON CD/LP/DIGITAL!

Declared by Ribot to be “the best record we’ve ever done,” Connection sees
Ceramic Dog furthering their long flirtation with various strains of rock ‘n’
roll while remaining fully entrenched in their signature approach to improvised
music, augmented by contributions by such special guests as
singer-songwriter Syd Straw, keyboardist Anthony Coleman, saxophonist James
Brandon Lewis, organist Greg Lewis, clarinetist Oscar Noriega, and cellist Peter
Sachon. The album is heralded by today’s premiere of the ferocious title track,
“Connection,” a loose, lo-fi instrumental deeply informed by the scuzz-fueled
history of Lower East Side noise rock from the Velvet Underground to White
Hassle.
 
LISTEN TO THE SINGLE “CONNECTION”




JANUARY 13, 2023


CERAMIC DOG PERFORMS “LIES MY BODY TOLD ME” FOR GUCCI’S MEN’S RUNWAY SHOW FW2023



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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

NEW VIDEO FOR CERAMIC DOG’S “THE ACTIVIST” PREMIERES ON BROOKLYNVEGAN



From BrooklynVegan: Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog released Hope earlier this year, a
terrific album that was made during the darkest times in recent memory (2020)
but yet found light and humor, all through Ribot's unique, charmingly
cantankerous worldview. 

One of the standouts on the album is "The Activist," a skronky, seven-minute
rant that goes off on more than a few tangents and pokes fun at some aspects
of activism while being very much the work of an activist. Marc notes
that the views expressed in this song may not be the views of himself
and the band. "We're narrators, but we've never pretended to be reliable," he
says, offering up these lines from the song as evidence: “I don’t accept my
shoes. I don’t accept my age, my hair, my weight, my breath, my face. I don’t
accept my language, my religion, or my death. I vote no! I break consensus! I
refuse! I resist!” He adds, "We love fighting for our rights. And we love
rockin the house. And we hate bullshit. And we love rockin the house. And we
love Antonio Gramsci because he said 'The truth is always revolutionary.' And we
love rockin the house."  Continue reading post and Marc's full statement here..

THE ACTIVIST also appears in UNSTRUNG: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist 
(Available with limited edition signed copies + "Selected Lyrics" chapbook)
And now on AUDIBLE narrated by Marc!


AUGUST 3, 2021

UNSTRUNG: RANTS & STORIES OF A NOISE GUITARIST
OUT TODAY ON AKASHIC BOOKS!






Marc's literary debut made it into this weekend's Wall Street Journal Books!
Critic Larry Blumenfeld writes…
"The essays and stories here cohere around connected themes: Artful distortion
reveals essential truths; meaningful struggle yields wisdom and rare beauty;
unreliable narrators are the only worthy kind."

And the Kirkus Reviews writes...
"Ribot is an all-American original, and this collection provides plenty of
insight into his fascinating mind."









Join Marc ‘In Conversation’ on these upcoming Virtual Book Events
August 7, 12pm (PST) / 3pm (EST) -City Lights Booksellers (San Francisco, CA)
In conversation with Elliott Sharp
Register: Zoom link

August 8, 4pm (EST), WORD Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)
In conversation with Greg Tate
Register: Crowdcast link

August 15, 1pm (CST) / 2pm (EST) The Book Cellar (Chicago, IL)
In conversation with Kurt Hollander
Register: Zoom link




APRIL 28, 2021

CERAMIC DOG’S LATEST FULL-LENGTH, HOPE, COMING JUNE 25TH!

Announcing Ceramic Dog’s new album, HOPE, will be released June 25th!

Today we’re also releasing the new single B-Flat Ontology, which flexes
minimalist storytelling skills to sketch life’s ennui—a kind of pointlessness
that goes far beyond existentialism.

“It’s the most depressing song ever written. Much more depressing than Mahler’s
Kindertotenlieder. Way, way more depressing.” - Marc Ribot


Watch live video performance HERE.


APRIL 21, 2021

MARC’S DEBUT BOOK, UNSTRUNG: RANTS AND STORIES OF A NOISE GUITARIST AVAILABLE
FOR PREORDER

We are excited to announce that Marc's debut collection, UNSTRUNG: RANTS AND
STORIES OF A NOISE GUITARIST 
will be published by Brooklyn-based independent publishing house Akashic Books
on August 3, 2021!

Launching TODAY is a limited-edition preorder package available exclusively from
Akashic, which includes a copy of UNSTRUNG (including a bookplate signed by
Ribot), as well as the lyric chapbook SELECTED LYRICS. 
More info: bit.ly/3axLudT


MARCH 4, 2021

REISSUE OF “MARC RIBOT PLAYS SOLO GUITAR WORKS OF FRANTZ CASSEUS” FOR BANDCAMP
FRIDAY

Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus

In effort to preserve the musical legacy of Marc’s guitar teacher and mentor,
the Father of Haitian classical guitar, Frantz Casseus, Marc recorded a
collection of Casseus' solo guitar compositions for his 1993 album "Marc Ribot
Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus". This remastered and expanded
edition, with three additional bonus tracks recorded in 2020, marks the first
time Marc's interpretations of this work is available on vinyl as a double LP.
Pre-order is available now through Bandcamp, with street date of May 14th.







OCTOBER 29, 2020


SOLO SET FOR “SHELTER IN PLACE” SESSIONS

Full SOLO set up until Nov 5th on Southwest Roots Festival’s YouTube Channel




The Carter Family's "When The World's On Fire" for "Shelter in Place" sessions.
https://bit.ly/2GgJqey

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OCTOBER 23, 2020


CERAMIC DOG LIVESTREAM CONCERT OCTOBER 23, 8PM EST!

Teaser for Ceramic Dog’s Oct 23 Livestream for Big Ears on the roof of St Ann’s
Warehouse, Brooklyn. 42 hour replay with advance ticket purchase.
Tix at bigearsfestival.org/ceramicdog/


OCTOBER 2, 2020


NEW CERAMIC DOG EP RELEASE + LIVESTREAM CONCERT ON SALE TODAY!



NEW CERAMIC DOG EP OUT TODAY!

For Marc's next Bandcamp First Fridays release (OUT TODAY - Oct 2nd), Ceramic
Dog shares six new tunes out of fourteen recorded during quarantine as a special
digital EP, What I Did On My Long 'Vacation', (with 200 limited edition CDs)
exclusively on Marc's Bandcamp page. The remaining nine songs will be out in
Spring 2021 as a full album release.
Read Marc's statement on the making of the EP/LP HERE. 

CERAMIC DOG'S FIRST LIVE PERFORMANCE TO BE STREAMED OCTOBER 23RD!

In collaboration with the Big Ears Festival and from the rooftop of St Ann's
Warehouse at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, Ceramic Dog plays tunes from the
new EP and upcoming 2021 full LP!

FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 8PM EST
(AVAILABLE TO BE VIEWED THROUGH MIDNIGHT SUN OCT 25)
Tickets on sale Friday (Oct. 2) at 10am

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AUGUST 7, 2020


DIGITAL REISSUE OF “REQUIEM FOR WHAT’S-HIS-NAME” FOR #BANDCAMPFRIDAY

Bandcamp has announced #BandcampFIrstFridays will extend until the end of the
year, when they waive 100% of their revenue shares in support of Artists during
these unprecedented times. So, Marc will be dusting off some files from the
archives along with some new music for a series of Bandcamp releases! Follow
Marc on Bandcamp or sign up on his email list for release updates.

Now on Bandcamp

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First up (OUT - August 7), Marc reissues for digital his long out-of-print,
Requiem For-What's-His-Name. 
Originally released in 1992 and his second release as a bandleader, Marc is
joined by cohorts Anthony Coleman on keys, saxophonist Roy Nathanson, bassist
Brad Jones, drummer Sim Cain, and multi-reed player, the late great Ralph Carney
as Rootless Cosmopolitans. Take a journey back and revisit original anthems and
classic renditions such as "Yo! I Killed Your God" and Ellington's "Caravan"
respectively.


APRIL 28, 2020


A CALL BY MUSICAL ARTISTS FOR BASIC FAIRNESS IN THE DIGITAL MARKETPLACE

John Zorn, Beth Orton, Bill Frisell, Mekons, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Laurie
Anderson, Panda Bear, Rosanne Cash, Thao Nguyen, Crystal Waters, Boots Riley,
Bela Fleck, and more musicians have signed a petition from Music Workers
Alliance that aims to help artists who are all struggling during the coronavirus
pandemic and calls for "basic fairness in the digital marketplace"

Read & Sign the Petition

Read coverage on BrooklynVegan

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DECEMBER 28, 2018


BEST OF 2018 LISTS FOR “YRU STILL HERE?” AND "SONGS OF RESISTANCE"


2018 SAW THE RELEASE OF TWO ALBUMS BY MARC AND THEY BOTH LANDED ON A FEW 'BEST
OF' LISTS!    

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Ceramic Dog "YRU Still Here?"
Northern Spy (US), Yellowbird (Europe), P-Vine (Japan)
Something Else! Best Album of the Year
Aquarium Drunkard
New Haven Independent
ABC (Spain)
Il Giornale della Musica (Italy)
The Sydney Morning Herald

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Songs of Resistance: 1942-2018
Anti- Records
No Depression
NPR All Songs Considered
MagnetAll Music
The Indypendent
Slate
The Tallahassee
The Sydney Morning Herald
The MusicWay Magazine (Italy)

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DECEMBER 4, 2018


"SONGS OF RESISTANCE" INCLUDED ON NPR'S ALL SONGS CONSIDERED THE YEAR IN MUSIC
2018!



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NOVEMBER 15, 2018


NEW ALBUM, SONGS OF RESISTANCE 1942-2018

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“Every movement which has ever won anything has had songs,” says accomplished
New York City guitarist Marc Ribot. For his new political album Songs of
Resistance 1942-2018 – with a September 14 release date on ANTI- Records - Ribot
set out to assemble a set of songs that spoke to this political moment with
appropriate ambition, passion, and fury.

The eleven songs on the record include a few original compositions as well as
traditional songs that are drawn from World War II anti-Fascist Italian
partisans, the U.S. civil rights movement and Mexican protest ballads. It also
features a wide range of guest vocalists, including
Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Meshell Ndegeocello, Justin Vivian Bond, Fay Victor, Sam
Amidon, and Ohene Cornelius, Tift Merritt, Domenica Fossati, Syd Straw.

At a time of such overwhelming social turmoil, finding a focus for this kind of
project is challenging. Nevertheless, Ribot’s purpose remained clear. “There’s a
lot of contradiction in doing any kind of political music,” he says, “how to act
against something without becoming it, without resembling what you detest.
Sometimes it is hard to figure out what to do, and I imagine we’ll make
mistakes, and hopefully, learn from them. But I knew this from the moment Donald
Trump was elected: I’m not going to play downtown scene Furtwangler to any
orange-comb-over dictator wannabe. No way.”

Portions of the album’s proceeds will be donated to The Indivisible Project, an
organization that helps individuals resist the Trump agenda via grassroots
movements in their local communities. More info on The Indivisible Project can
be found at www.indivisible.org.




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NOVEMBER 1, 2018


DONALD TRUMP: RATA DE DOS PATAS (RAT WITH TWO LEGS)



DON’T DESPAIR: MOBILIZE! VOTE ON NOVEMBER 6th!
VOLUNTEER/ PHONE BANK / CANVASS: Swing Left https://swingleft.org / Rise and
Resist https://www.riseandresist.org / Voto Latino http://votolatino.org
“We support all Democratic candidates running in the November 6 2018 midterm
elections. We need to stop Donald Trump and his enablers. The days between now
and the November 6th midterm elections will be the most important of our
political lives. We need to flip 24 seats to retake the House. You can make a
difference by phone banking and canvassing." 

Paquita la del Barrio didn’t mince words when she was calling out the bad guy in
“Rata De Dos Patas” (Rat with Two Legs): 
Rata inmunda, Filthy rat
animal rastrero, creeping animal
escoria de la vida, scum of life
adefecio mal hecho, deformed monstrosity
infra-humano, sub human
espectro del infierno, specter of hell
maldita sabandija, accursed worm
cuanto daño me has hecho, how much damage you have done to me

Listen to the full version of Rata de dos Patas
here: https://spoti.fi/2OiG9ZV or http://bit.ly/2DfF6sLVideo by Nye Taylor.
Artwork/Graffiti by Al Diaz.

 
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