November 26, 2014
The art of music is so inherent in man that it is superfluous to have a particular name for it.
—Francis Bebey, African Music: A People’s Art (1969)
trans. Josephine Bennet
What do you do after a record knocks your socks off? Silence seems like the best compliment one can afford. You are speechless,…
November 13, 2014
Much has been said about the sense of perfection in Bedhead’s music. With an appreciation of restraint and arrangements that were de-cluttered to the point utter austerity, the Dallas-based band’s approach fell in line with the encroaching “slow core” tag. But Bedhead’s songs…
November 12, 2014
While bands across the United States spent the 90s trying to make big money off variations of belligerent and ironic rock, a handful of artists quietly followed paths away from the wreckage. Lumped together under nebulous genre names like “slowcore,” these artists recast the term “rock”…
