The Suitesixteen – Mine Would Be The Sun (Self-Released)+
Orville Peck – Show Pony (Columbia)+
Tough Age – Which Way Am I? (Mint)
Ora Cogan – Bells In The Ruins (Prism Tongue)+
Numbing – Make Yourself Hard To Kill (Self-Released)+
Non La – Not In Love (Kingfisher Bluez)
Freak Heat Waves – Zap The Planet (Telephone Explosion)+
redress – peacebird (Self-Released)+
U.S. Girls – Heavy Light (4AD)
New Fries – Is The Idea Of Us (Telephone Explosion)
Dog Day – Present (fundog) various – Ever New (Self-Released)
Gum Country – Somewhere (Kingfisher Bluez)
Destroyer – Have We Met (Merge)
Zoon – Bleached Wavves (Paper Bag)
Rebecca Foon – Waxing Moon (Constellation)
Snotty Nose Rez Kids – Born Deadly (Self-Released)
December 19, 2020 at 12:03 AM
NEWTON, NJ- A Newton man was picked up on fraud charges before he could carry out his planned escape to Pakistan. According to U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito, 30-year-old Azhar Sarwar Rana, faced Judge James B. Clark III on Wednesday, charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of money laundering.
Rana was arrested on December 12 after booking a same day flight out of the country Carpenito said. Court documents and statements made in court show Rana submitted a fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program or PPP loan application that got him more than $5 million.
The loan application had false payroll and tax information including not having paid wages in 2019 and the minimal wages he paid in 2020 were to people whose names did not match the social security numbers they submitted.
Fred Pessaro’s favorite albums of 2020
Fred Pessaro a lifer was a long time BrooklynVegan and Invisible Oranges editor and show organizer before moving on to Noisey, CLRVYNT, Revolver, and other places. His taste in heavy music has helped shape not just our own coverage for over 10 years, but the music landscape as a whole. In addition to still occasionally contributing to BrooklynVegan and writing other places, Fred helped organize shows at places across the US including Saint Vitus, Brooklyn Bazaar, Union Pool, TV Eye and many many more. As the year is coming to a close, we’ve been publishing year-end lists from various music industry figures. Here’s Fred’s, who we re always happy to have back:
Tell us about one of the first pieces you translated.
I studied poetry in college and was learning Spanish during the summers working in Mexico. As a way to work on both at the same time, I planned a poetry translation independent study with my poetry professor. She told me to pick out a Spanish language poet from the library and we’d choose a poem to start with. At the library, I pulled out Pablo Neruda’s
Las Piedras del Cielo. When I flipped through it, the book fell open to a photo of my mother stuck in the pages. I didn’t remember checking it out, but I must have and used her photo as a bookmark. Her photo marked poem XXVI which begins: “Leave me a place beneath the earth, a labyrinth/ I can retreat to afterwards.” My mother had just passed away a few months before. I don’t believe in signs from the dead, but of course that was the book I chose the work with and I began with that poem. It is still my favorite poem from that book.