There’s just two chances left to catch The Books on their Playall DVD release tour, (tonight in NYC and Wednesday in Boulder) but never fear if you missed this or their previous tour featuring their inventive cut and paste videos synched up to the aptly named Massachusetts duo’s equally inventive acoustic/electric audio experimentations, the DVD captures much of the fun including the amusingly creepy Handfart Man. But more on him later…

You know you’re at a show where it’s going to be important to pay attention when the opening act is introduced as an archivist with a presentation of found photos capturing accidental art. Of course this evening was taking place at the revered Old Town School of Folk Music, and Rich Remsberg’s slideshow (some of which can be seen here) of old …