Episode 7 of the Dark Comedy Hour is up on the podcast page. We were lucky to have Coire Williams come by and play the Kora, discuss the Jali, and tell us a story about a particularly clever goat.

Episode 6 of the Dark Comedy Hour is up Here and on iTunes featuring music from Clara Kennedy and Kiyoko and Gregory from By and By

Hello all,

As the AC hums I can only think to hope that all your solstices went well.

Here at the Dark Comedy Hour we have three new blogs back up and running: Alive alive alive by Rox Sirand, Bye Bye Blue Smoke by Blue Throat, and The Interstellar Correspondence of Judy and Private Mercury.

Furthermore, there are a couple of new musical acts on the music page: By and By and Clara Kennedy

Finally, a new Podcast is in the pipeline and should be out by weekend’s end!

Hope your weekend is cool and hydrated

For our fifth Podcast, we present Salvatore Vito Geloso. Sal does some swinging tunes on the ukulele, accompanied by harmonica, kazoo and his own unique voice. His music reflects his travels around the country, with influences from the San Francisco folk scene to New Orleans jazz. We ran into Sal at Jalopy Theater and School of Music in Red Hook, Brooklyn during their Wednesday night Roots and Ruckus lineup.

Hello Ladies and Gentleman,

On this dapple day, when you need to close your eyes walking into the wind, when the rain falls at odd angles making the buildings seem particularly steadfast, when umbrella is but a battered refrain to a tedious song, the Dark Comedy Hour spreads a tarp taught between boughs and beams and invites you underneath to eat of our stew, drink of our brew, and hum to our tunes. Please enjoy the varied and vibrant musical additions to the Music Page including notables such as Forest City, The Sanctuaries, and The Rich Get Richer.

The Basement Archive has been busily cataloging and has posted additional reading materials for your literary pleasure.

We are most delighted to have Ms. Kummerspeck writing at Pupils and Iris and encourage you to have a read!

Stay tuned for more Music (teaser: its other-worldly folk) , stories from The Basement Archive, and, most excitingly, a Podcast or two in honor of this particularly unpredictable Spring season.

Finally, please do be in touch: write us at comments@darkcomedyhour.com or visit our Guest Book and be the first to leave a message! Who knows, there may be a prize in order for such a milestone event!

Neither warm sun, nor dry socks, nor umbrella, nor shelter are needed to stoke the heart’s fiery glow. Enjoy this Spring

We’re ridiculously fortunate to have some new music from the Dark Comedy Hour studio: Dana Athens stopped by the other day and played a few songs for us. Dana has an incredible vocal range, bluesy and captivating, I urge you to listen now!

On a much darker note, we also have new material in the Basement Archive from our own Wall Street Insider describing some of the roots of the financial crisis and the absurd world of structured credit products.

The Dark Comedy Hour management is proud to announce the launching of our new online literary journal, The Basement Archive. For us, the goal of this new venture is to have a place where you can find stories on any topic and in any style whatsoever, organized by judicious tagging and spanning the range of human experience. It could take a while. As always, our philosophy for selecting stories is to pick ones that reflect out-of-the-way corners of life, preferably darker ones, and in a way that is as truthful and free of artifice as possible. Hopefully they’ll also put a smile on your face, if such a reaction is appropriate. Check it out and get your drooping eyes a-reading!

We’re hard at work finishing the editing and publishing process for our first issue of the Dark Comedy Review, our print companion journal dedicated to exploring the dark undercurrents of current events. Issue one, entitled “The Fantasy Economy”, explores the current economic malaise and the pressures of the world of work. The issue features an anonymous review of the causes of the financial crisis by the Dark Comedy Hour’s own Wall Street Insider, as well as stories exploring military life, sexual mores in Brooklyn Hipsterville, unemployment, and the psychological terrain in Jos, Nigeria.
If you haven’t heard back from us yet about your submission(s), we’re still reviewing your material and may keep your work under consideration for future issues. Thanks for your patience! We’re a stumbling operation, but a determined one! Issue one should come to press around the beginning of April.
As you may also see, we’re overhauling our website: it’s a frantic scene over here, poems and stories strewn all over the floor and pasted to the walls, bloodshot code-filled eyes, spilled beverages and tangled computer cables. It’s a bona fide fire hazard. Please stay tuned!

We’ve got a new podcast up, featuring Gann Brewer. Gann came by the studio the other day and shared some original songs; he also did a reworked traditional about one Stagger Lee, about whom he told the tale. From Gann’s website:

Rox Sirand and the assorted management of the Dark Comedy Hour will be hosting our second annual winter festival this Saturday at the Triskelion Arts Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (118 North 11th Street, (williamsburg), Brooklyn, NY 11211-1914, 3rd floor), from 11pm-3am. The show will feature performances from Gann Brewer, Brother Han, and our musical director Andras Pokorny, as well as a comedy spot by Mister Brown, featuring Adam Macy and Lucas Hazlett, a rocking rock set from Eugene Sounds and the Big City Fear, and assorted other attractions including live painting by Neil Enggist, a dramatic performance by Live Art, and late-night dance accompaniment by DJ Zesto. We encourage anyone and everyone to come out as we attempt to kindle enough of a fire to get our dithering selves through another artistic year!