July 25, 2014
Once again, here’s a case of an album I received for review that has ended up serenading me to sleep every night. Minimalist superstar Duane Pitre has been known for participating in more challenging works, such as his exotic solo album Feel Free. Teaming up with the Texan musical MacGuyver Cory…
July 12, 2014
This week Fork & Spoon Records unveiled a new benefit compilation, Tidings From Our Light Purple Gam, revealing that label founder and Those Lavender Whales bandleader Aaron Graves is receiving treatment for a brain tumor. Graves is a tremendously kind person, and that tumor (and any like it) is…
May 31, 2014
I wanted to open this week’s review with something a bit more general, the transcript of San Francisco based technologist and artist Maciej Cegłowski’s closing speech at this year’s Beyond Tellerrand web-design conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. Cegłowski looks at the history…
May 3, 2014
This week was marred right off the bat by the tragic death of DJ Rashad and there’s little comfort to his fans from the knowledge that his legacy will surely grow, proportionate to the misfortune of his unknown condition culminating so suddenly. Juke and footwork have never been so much a part…
February 11, 2014
Luigi’s Russolo’s seminal futurist manifesto The Art of Noises touches on the concept of using machines to replicate the sounds of everyday life, those noises we take for granted but are all around, from the electric hum of the city to the sounds of a stream in the middle of a forest. Likewise, Students…
November 5, 2013
Students of Decay, 10/15/2013
There are moments on John Davis’ new LP where so many sonic elements contest with one another that a listener, overwhelmed, could be dissuaded from venturing any further into the record. But just as enough sound piles on top of itself, Davis pulls the rug out, sometimes…
September 20, 2013
Secret Pyramid is the solo project of Vancouver’s Amir Abbey, also one part of drone outfit Solars, and gourd bless Weird Canada for insuring that something searchable exists online about a band called “Solars;” they called the last Solars tape, from Prairie Fire Tapes, a “fantastic…
September 10, 2013
As a five year resident of Madison, WI, I feel bummed that I didn’t partake more of the local music scene during that time. For a city that has claimed, at various points, artists like Samantha Glass, Golden Donna, and Peaking Lights as residents, it is great to be able to discover more mind-bending…
June 11, 2013
Students of Decay, 5/14/2013
It’s not too often that a descriptor such as “haunted house” elicits anything but campy B-movie nostalgia; however, such a term is appropriate for the new self-titled LP from Turkey’s Ekin Fil. Throughout this set the listener is invited to consider distant memories…
