By now you’ve heard of Lipplestock, or Lipplefest, or the Firth/Fourventh/Sorxth of July parties held on a nearly annual basis at TJ’s parent’s place in Altoona, PA. Ulf Magnet got itself together, barely, to play a few tunes this year. Here are the demos of the three originals in case you’re really jonesing […]
We spent a good bit of time after the honeymoon throwing together an “art installation”, or something not unlike that, for a show organized by my friend Ben last Sunday at Goodbye Blue Monday in Bushwick. Becca and I had grandiose plans for the installation to say the least — involving a robotic waveform […]
The new Sonic Youth record, “Rather Ripped”, was released today. I’m not normally one to run out and buy records the day they’re released, but I heard a few tracks in advance and got uncharacteristically excited about this one.
So… it’s no disappointment! It was recorded for the most part at NYC’s […]
Former WPRB music director Dan Ruccia posted this to the cassettemythos mailing list and I couldn’t resist… nothing makes you happy like your life’s first encounter with bizarre-itude.
Inevitably, inexorably, my musical orbit has brought me back into view of planet Zeppelin, in no small part thanks to Jim’s jocking of Sandy Denny, former member of Fairport Convention and the ethereal voice on IV’s classic “The Battle of Evermore”. In the words of Robert Plant himself, “My favorite singer out of all […]