Ears of a Monkey

Ears of a Monkey
If you haven’t made it your local music retailer to pick up the new Quartjar CD, Years of a Monkey, or you’re just trying to cut back on hard copies and love the sound of digital downloads, you can get the album from iTunes. Longtime scenester Randall Brown’s latest project, featuring a slew of local hot-shot musicians, is also available from such online music sources as CD Baby, DigStation, PayPlay and Tradebit. Quoth Brown: “It's just amazing the distribution that is available for an unsigned, independent local band that recorded an album in the basement.” Amen. This will hopefully help the Ramblin’ Man get one step closer to achieving his dreams of being big in Japan.

Add An Annex
An additional 5,000 square feet of classroom, meeting and rehearsal space was recently  added to the Emporium at 100 S. Gay St., with the addition of their Annex, which opened recently. Built one floor below the first level of Gay Street, underneath the main gallery level of the Emporium Center, the Annex hopes to provide space for some of the arts organizations and groups that have been displaced by the sale of the Candy Factory.

In other Emporium news, the Arts & Cultural Alliance will be exhibiting for sale pieces from its Collection beginning Thursday, September 6. More than 70 works by local and national artists will be on display, with a slient auction taking place on First Friday, September 7.