I use our @TangoEchoZine feed for the news items and oddities that we come across in our travels. Since our focus is on original content, we don’t republish posts about these finds. Instead, they go on our Twitter Newswire.

This was the week of April 12, 2010, in the Tango Echo News:

A Transparent Car Factory, A Death Metal Louis Armstrong, the death of Peter Steele, and a #RockBlock. Read on for the details.

Dear Loyal Tango Echo Readers,

Tango Echo is proud to announce the launch of a new weekly column called “Lost & Found.” Contributor John Flagler has been researching long forgotten accounts of greatness to offer our readers educational and interesting content that digs up people, books, theories, and an array of other subjects that have become lost in history books. While education remains a primary reason for this column, we also hope the topics provide inspiration in the lives of our readers, with a promise to you that we’ll try to always keep the emphasis on important topics with themes relevant to today’s society. With so much going on in today’s world we feel that it’s our civil duty to offer a column such as this, that emphasizes the goodness in the world and beauty human kind has to offer.

Thank you all so much for your readership.

John Flagler & Tango Echo

The equipment necessary for rebuilding the TE crew’s bumper cars and building whatever else we’ll be making for the big fun on Saturday came over to the new location today. Much of it is heavy and with every horizontal surface slick with rain, there were some exciting moments. We also learned what happens when a fork lift drives into an 8 foot fluorescent bulb. Unfortunately, it was a day of hard work, and we do not have any pictures to share from Day 5. There will be more updates when we resume our move next week. For now, it’s time for bumper cars.

Tango Echo is getting a new home. We, and the metal shop of our pals, TE Motorworks, are moving to our very own building. In North Philadelphia.

Four long days into our move and the new shop is finally beginning to come together. We finished wiring today and made our last / most recent / best attempt at removing the awful / stupid / hazardous clay dust left behind by the previous tenants. Sometime around nightfall, truckloads of equipment began to arrive. Meanwhile, Kate added some color to the walls of our office and began to plan the layout.

Tomorrow will be our last big day to get everything in place before we go back to business as usual, with a film crew scheduled to arrive on Thursday.

Click through to see the pictures.

The Virgin Mobile Free Fest will be thrown into high gear and primed to kick music lovers in the teeth with a swarm of those bands you like: Weezer, Jet, Public Enemy, Franz Ferdinand and Girl Talk, just to name a few.

Tango Echo will be right in the mix of it all with our bumper car derby, pirate cannon target practice and our latest contraption, “TV Monster”.

The last remaining Free Fest Tickets are on sale today through Ticketmaster. Get ’em while their hot, and pirate cannon will be sure to cool you off at the fest!

With all of this topnotch monkey business, it sure seems like someone’s got to lose. Must be wreaking havoc on the environment, right? Big festival, tons of people, stomping the life out of whatever’s growing green nearby…

You couldn’t be more wrong.