According to my Instagram feed yesterday, Saturday August, 29, 2020, was the 13th annual “Record Store Day”. Originally scheduled for a date in April 2020, the “holiday” was first postponed until June 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, before being…
Month: August 2020
“I don’t watch the news. I don’t read the papers. I’m not really in touch with society. I was born. I’m here, but I don’t believe any of it.” – Jim Shepard
A few posts back when I reminisced about my first encounter with Pussy Galore and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion I ended up with the longest post I’ve ever written. I probably spent more time editing and going back to…
“What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king.” – Ignatius J. Reilly… V/A – “East of Croydon” LP (Nothing Shaking Records, UK, 1981)
The thing about music (and most art for that matter) is that if you try to define something by coming up with a label for it, there’s a good chance you’ll end up spending more time thinking and talking about…
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” – Winston Churchill…Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “A Reverse Willie Horton” LP (Pubic Pop Can, US, 1991)
The first time I ever heard The Birthday Party was when a slightly older but very wiser friend played me “The Bad Seed” 12″ EP after I told him about my recent life changing experience seeing The Jesus Lizard live.…
Pegged In the Head With A Lawn Dart.. Ed’s Redeeming Qualities “Ed’s Day” 7″ (Aurora Records, US, 1989)
As a goofy high school freshman in 1989 who had already memorized the catalogs of the Dead Kennedy’s, Black Flag, The Misfits, etc etc etc, “punk rock” was still a wondrous world of discovery where anything that fell outside of…
Yet Another ‘Dollar Bin Dandies’: Space Dust “Cool Car” 7″ (18 Wheeler, US, 1994)
New Zealand “sloppy psych rock band” (their words) Space Dust’s debut 7″ was released in 1994 via Tom Scharpling’s New Jersey-based 18 Wheeler label. In case you weren’t buying vinyl-only releases by New Zealand indie bands in the early to…
“It is the long history of humankind that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” – Darwin… Lol Coxhill & Totsuzen Danball s/t LP (Floor Records, Japan, 1983)
Speaking from my own experience, free jazz and “prog” are two categories of music which, if you’re looking to learn more about and you ask someone who claims to be into them where you should start, chances are, depending on…