This 7″ 45 plus an old concert flyer for a Road Runners show in Fresno, CA passed through my hands at work recently. Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Evan, who cares…

One of the great unsung talents at the center of the Krautrock movement, Grosskopf never really received the acclaim of a Schuzle or Gottsching. But he was vital to the recording of…

Limited to 1000 copies, this is easily the rarest Do Make Say Think release. It also happens to contain one of the best grooves the group has ever laid down, “I Love…

A few months ago a private record collector invited me to his house down in the OC to hang out, listen to records, and buy a couple LPs from him. I spent…

If there’s one thing you need to know about R&B/Soul music, it’s that certain artists have innate abilities to illicit a particular response from listeners. I wouldn’t necessarily call finding said artists…

Great quote from Michael Gira in the new L.A. Record. The interviewer asks, “You’ve often said you want music to atomize the listener — why?” And he responds with, “More like if…

I was having a conversation with Hornet Montana last week via e-mail (he just turned 50 years old!) and we traded Wikipedia links regarding numbers stations and shortwave radio broadcast ephemera. If…

Since the first bit of German Shepherds ephemera I shared received such a positive response, I figured I would leave you to ingest this over the weekend. I’m leaving for the next…

Any time my camp friends and I would get together in the city we were destined to have a memorable night. It’s a shame no recording exists (that I can find) of…

Look at that fucking nerd. Not Rivers Cuomo…I mean me. (DC, 2000) In the summer of 2000, as a fresh-faced seventeen-year-old, I took a job in New York City at a medical…