About the Website Updates

Kalvos & Damian is largely a historical site reflecting nonpop from 1995-2005. Our RSS feed (see the XML button in the navigation column to the left) will inform you when new content is added, including both the monthly Noizepunk & Das Krooner shows, and interview transcripts that are now being posted. We will resume Kalvos & Damian online radio shows on an irregular basis in 2008, and the site will be refreshed more frequently then.

In the meantime, please bear with us. Many of the composer pages still read 2002 or 2003. Links to record companies are broken because many go back to the days when record companies didn't even have their own websites. Remember that Kalvos & Damian was there early -- beginning in September of 1995, when our "podcasts" predated the word "podcast" by about ten years. We're still what's kindly referred to as a "Web 1.0" site.

Aside from the Noizepunk & Das Krooner shows, transcripts are another area of good news. Some visitors may recall that we promised transcripts some time ago. A series of lost transcribers (some who took the money and ran) derailed this project. We now have an arrangement with a composer and also a music center to do these transcriptions, and they will start appearing.

To another issue: We are not rewriting history. Some of you have written to ask that playlists be changed. These document historical reality; they are not current biographies (which we will try to update on request) or critical links.

You may wonder why this discussion has come up now, in late 2007. That is because in recent days I have been plagued by a series of emails demanding all references to an artist and record label be removed due to supposed "Nazi attacks". We removed contact information for the artist (although the email address for the requesting person is bouncing, so it has become suspicious), but the references to actual events are documents. These we do not censor.

We're not certain what the future will bring. Kalvos & Damian was always a volunteer effort, but now no longer has any funding, except for help from pair Networks, our remarkable hosting company. That means what was before a time question is now expanded -- support for K&D's site is out-of-pocket, save for the generosity on two remaining composer supporters. That's why we ask additional patience. At a cost of nearly $1300 a year, K&D is no small expense for us, even to maintain a historical site. But we know our place was a curious historical niche, and traffic is still heavy to our site, so we don't want simply to fade into oblivion. Not yet.

Thanks for reading, and head back to the home page.

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