90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column about life around music.
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Grateful Dead, Fillmore East, New York, April 29, 1971
I’ve only just begun to learn how sound and ears work, so much of what I’m about to write might well be wrong, and I’m likely to raise more questions than answers, but…
When we last met, we were focused on the releases of the Recollection GRM label, an Editions Mego imprint devoted to unearthing gems from the vaults of the Groupe de Recherche Musicales (GRM), an exploratory music collective based in Paris. The GRM tasked themselves with crafting acousmatic music, or…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is to music columns what a ham hock is to your cornflakes.
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Klaatu, 3:47 EST
Allie and I went to Canada last weekend for a wedding and almost as soon as we crossed the border we tuned into a French station – that’s where the musical conceit of this week’s column…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is what will happen if you keep smoking that stuff. Send music to Woodall Hall 124, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31907.
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Robert Beaser, Mountain Songs
When I first moved to this city in the Deep South, almost everyone I met told me about the guitar scholar….
Unheard explores the moist recesses of “unconventional music” and attempts to have fun doing so. Whether it’s pimply basement hounds jockeying weathered blocks of noise or beefy luddites clunking out waxy half-songs on broken Casio keyboards and even-more-broken electric guitars, you’re going…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is how the world will come to realize that YouTube’s stabilizing function and Flip Video are together a form of psychedelia. Send ingredients to Woodall Hall 124, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31907.
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The New Lines, Fall in Line
I wish I’d had this…
Studio Apartment is Jon Bernson‘s effort to document the interaction between musicians and their recording spaces. Jon is the prolific multimedia artist behind Exray’s, Window Twins, THEMAYS, Ray’s Vast Basement and numerous soundtracks for theater and film.
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No one…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is like when the semester ends and your professor invites you and some other students to his house for wine and cheese and microbrews and he shows off his new turntable but it’s not like the movies because he doesn’t hit on you and you don’t hit on him and sometimes he…
Transcendent music is found in every genre, like the holy in the everyday. It all comes down to paying attention to your life, and to be aware of what you are seeing and hearing. Why do songs still matter long after they have been used to sell cars or deodorant? We hold on so tightly to the songs and…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a midlife crisis disguised as a music column. Joe will film and write about any musical artifacts he finds in his mailbox at Woodall Hall 124, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31907.
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William Tyler, Impossible Truth
Allie and I recently came into some…
Teenage Rage scopes out the leading edge of garage rock and its many associates, as a more melodic counterpart to Michael Tau’s other column, Unheard.
IN THIS ISSUE I cast the spotlight on Urinal Cake Records, a growing enterprise that pushes at the margins of rock music. Then I touch on several…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column by a man trying to recreate the world of his childhood with vinyl. His address is Woodall Hall 124, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31907. He shows up here every Friday.
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Kurt Vile, Wakin on a Pretty Daze
Last December, Spin posted a short article…
Every month Tim from Rose Quartz examines three overlooked releases from the digital ether and their place in our networked culture.
A certain dystopian current is running strong through underground electronic music right now. While Mind Dynamics — the Brooklyn duo of Brian Whateverer and Daniel…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column about things that you can hold that hold music, written by an aging man who fetishizes them. His address is Woodall Hall 124, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31907. He shows up here every Friday.
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Akai CS-M3
There is a central line of tension…
Unheard explores the moist recesses of “unconventional music” and attempts to have fun doing so. Whether it’s pimply basement hounds jockeying weathered blocks of noise or beefy luddites clunking out waxy half-songs on broken Casio keyboards and even-more-broken electric guitars, you’re going…
Welcome to the first article in a series I’m calling Performance Art Garfunkel, a column which will focus on what it means to be a solo project in the 2010s, or whatever you call this decade, now that the computer screen doors have swung wide open and the singer-songwriter and his acoustic guitar…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column that proves, week after week, that stolen goods are worthless, unless you work hard to steal them, because when you earn what you own it’s worth more. It’s written by a creepy man in his mid-forties whose address is Woodall Hall 124, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus,…
Transcendent music is found in every genre, like the holy in the everyday. It all comes down to paying attention to your life, and to be aware of what you are seeing and hearing. Why do songs still matter long after they have been used to sell cars or deodorant? We hold on so tightly to the songs and…
90 Miles Out of Atlanta is a column from and about the place where musical artifacts and life combine to form something else, by an old self-absorbed writing professor. If you’d like to play along, send stereo-friendly things to Woodall Hall 133, 4225 University Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31907.
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Unheard explores the moist recesses of “unconventional music” and attempts to have fun doing so. Whether it’s pimply basement hounds jockeying weathered blocks of noise or beefy luddites clunking out waxy half-songs on broken Casio keyboards and even-more-broken electric guitars,…
