I still regret not buying the first copy of this one I ever saw, because it had the most deranged-looking artwork you’ve ever seen in your life. The obviously DIY homemade sleeve…
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Lilys – The 3 Way
How did this record never get pressed on vinyl!? I mean…you guys know how much Lilys records go for these days, right? Eccsame The Photon Band and In The Presence of Nothing…
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On Location Scouting In The Desert
Sometimes a day off from work isn’t quite a day off. Sometimes it can be an adventure! Like five years ago when Tom (who was my new roommate at the time) needed…
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Rocketship – A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
“It’s easy to write off indie-pop as an insular scene plagued by cutsiness, but then an album like Rocketship’s reminds us what the genre can do. A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 308
It has been a very weird, very long, and very frustrating week. It was marked with a couple refreshing, lovely moments, but other than that it’s been long hours at work and…
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Ides Of Gemini / Deafheaven / Boris @ The Echoplex; Los Angeles, CA
Night two was, in my opinion, the better of the two performances for both Deafheaven and Boris. The setlist for Deafheaven was similar (I think only the last song of the set…
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Marriages / Deafheaven / Boris @ The Echoplex; Los Angeles, CA
Hoo boy. The first night of my two-night pass to see the Boris “All-Time Classics” and “Flood” performances left little room for complaint. For starters, Deafheaven blew me the fuck away. I…
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Major Yuri Gagarin – Conquest Of Space
Two of my most favorite things in the whole world — Russian history and outer space — finally available for the first time in one place on a monaural 45rpm 7″ EP.…
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On Forgotten Drummers
Thanks for the feedback on my little list I drunkenly posted last night. It would seem, according to some of you (cough cough Ian cough cough) that I left a bunch of…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 307
Whew! What a weekend. Wait, was it what a weekend? I don’t even remember what I did Friday night! I know I worked late…but after that…Oh, right, I stayed in. That wasn’t…