It’s been nine months since I last updated you all on the progress of my Day Zero List. If you don’t know what that is, or you haven’t been reading this page…
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Will Oldham – Black Sessions (January 26th, 1999)
It’s been a few years since I’ve listened regularly to the music of Will Oldham. I haven’t purchased an album of his since ’05, but until last year or the one prior…
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Film Review: Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
My boss dropped a DVD on my desk yesterday as he was leaving asking if I wanted to borrow it. The cover was a macabre-looking painting of a monk holding a banjo.…
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Robbie Basho – Venus In Cancer
I will continue preaching from the gospel Robbie Basho until you are all converted. Upon first hearing Seal Of The Blue Lotus I have been hooked on his steel string acoustic ragas.…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 151
Is everybody sober yet? Did you enjoy your holiday with family, loved ones and friends? Mine was pretty disappointing, seeing as how for the first time in my life I didn’t know…
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Bobb Trimble – The Harvest Of Dreams
Taken from the Acid Archives, as reviewed by Aaron Milenski: “There is no album I own that has as much emotional complexity and depth as HARVEST OF DREAMS. Bobb Trimble’s previous album,…
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On Devil’s Punchbowl And Polls/Contests
Today I went for a drive deep into the heart of Antelope Valley to explore an area I will be writing about for my bi-monthly contributions to WFMU’s Beware Of The Blog.…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 150
Today was one of those “I hate my life” days, but since I came home from work things are slowly turning around. Maybe a little Sunday Mix Tape will help sooth my…
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Frontier – Heater
You know what this page hasn’t featured in a long time? A genre-melding rock band from Chicago. Frontier (guitarist Steven Wessley, bassist Kevin Ireland, drummer Michael Tsouios) formed in the early nineties,…
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The Top Ten Worst Classical Composers Of All Time
I thought about writing a top ten list of the ten worst albums of 2009 (January-to-June) this week, but decided against it when I realized that there were way too many albums…