What I present here is not a review of anything. Nor have I attempted to circle my wagons around anything that could be considered a think piece. I’ve enjoyed my share of historical surveys, but I offer none here. Finally, I leave for another scribe the task of penning a hysterectomy of Lookie-Normcough Post-Avant-Pop. The
Are you ready? The Wasted Years podcast is, simply, bands and musicians telling stories about touring. This is real life viewed through the lens of the touring musician. Touring seems to be an endless mine of amazing tales, and I believe that many artists and musicians are excellent story tellers by nature. Thus, my creation
Dustin Wong’s latest release (Thrill Jockey Records) is a rapt conversation between excited participants that may not even know they live on the same planet. Not that these well-paced loops, colorfully exuberant guitar tones, effect pedaled planetoids of musical dust and light, and the rest of the sounds used on his perfectly titled ‘”Mediation
Its Cleveland 1978, Life Stinks– by Pere Ubu— ricochets from a squalid….. No, it’s 1985. Asylum Party is playing in your head. You’re passed out standing up, leaning on a tottering book-case in Courbevoie, France. The denuded and pointedly emotional sounds festoon around each other sending one into a blurry dream orbit. Or it might
Folks who love bands like The Shout Out Louds, Polock or Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin should pay attention to this limited 12-Inch called „Scrimmage Shark EP“ by the US Indiefolk duo Whispering Olympians, that was released on Jan. 1st. It´s Domenic Maltempi and William Olsen from the Hudson Valley region of New York who produced