I am no longer bound to six, and as a consequence, I can just keep shoving music, old and new, into the visor and playing it whenever it pleases me. This tends to reflect mood rather than intent, because why would it not? The Datsuns – s/t Got this for $5 used at my local… Read More What’s in the CD Visor This Week — Overload the System Edition
So back in April my car got totalled. It was an old car, so it didn’t take much for the Insurance company to say “sorry, we’re just gonna cut you a check for the market value.” But that meant a new car, and a new stereo, and the market has moved passed what I am… Read More This Week in the CD Visor — Guitar experiments Edition
It’s the first edition, but whatever. Because I am old, because I came up in a time when CD’s were the newest, hippest form of musical consumption, I have hundreds of them. True, the format has become the cultural equivalent of the 8-track, having neither the aesthetic cachet of vinyl nor the supreme convenience of… Read More This Week in the CD Changer: Interesting Failures Edition
This has been up since the middle of the month, but I delayed this post because we had artwork in it for the first time, and I had to be sure that Amazon could handle it. Or, if you’re the sort of person who wants an .epub AND a .pdf, you go to our Gumroad… Read More Unnamed Journal 37 – Wanna Be Anarchy!
It must be Biopic season, because I’ve just sat down of my own free will and watched two fictionalizations of actual events: one from my infancy, which I look on with fascination, and one from my early adulthood, which I disdain with the snobbery of a thousand dead aristocrats. The second thing, Pam & Tommy… Read More Pam and Tommy and Steve and Johnnie
This interviewer kept trying to get him to embrace the orthodox, bien-pensant progressive viewpoint on the music industry, and he kept refusing to. And it’s not like he didn’t have fair warning: Is your sense of the music industry these days fairly apocalyptic, or is it mellowing, or…? You seemed fairly skeptical/ cynical about it a… Read More Dave Thomas of Pere Ubu is Awesome
…and you don’t. Unless you do. Click the image below for a rundown of why you should, courtesy of Shallyboy’s Music.
“…yet we crave the virtuosity of the Satriani elite.” Smitty makes an excellent metaphor to describe the difficulty of the Tea Party and the Conservative blogsophere vis-a-vis the GOP establishment and primary field. Never forget that the Ramones, and the Sex Pistols, and the Clash, and the Dead Boys, and everyone else wanted to sell records.… Read More “We Are the Ramones in All Their Egalitarian Glory…”
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