AllMusic says: “Shrunk down to a four-person one-drummer lineup, MX-80 continued to bring the noise — and very well at that — with Out of the Tunnel. The casual please-nobody-but-themselves approach from…
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The Top Ten Steve Albini-Recorded/Engineered Albums Redux
Not even Stereogum is immune from rehashing blog posts of mine from five or six years ago. Just kidding. I’m sure there are hundreds of other websites and forums where people have…
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Dennis
I’ve been having some car issues for the past two weeks. It’s cost me a lot of money. A lot of money. I’ve had to dip pretty deep into my savings to…
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Der Blutharsch – The Track Of The Hunted
From Wikipedia: Der Blutharsch (“blood-iced snow” or, in old German, “coagulated blood” — but really a reference to a Swiss mercenary company circa 1600 AD) is the primary musical project of Austrian…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 244
Oh boy. I just wrapped shooting a two-hour interview for a documentary about men and relationships. A friend is working on the project and asked to shoot some friends and I answering…
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10 Band Reunions I’d Go To Coachella To See
Remember last week? I talked so much about Coachella! It was mostly bad, of course, but it seems like a lot of people responded positively to my series of posts reviewing the…
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Interview: Drew Stubbs
In my never-ending quest to interview everyone I know, I decided today to talk to my roommate Drew. Note: This is not Drew Stubbs the baseball player. My roommate Drew is a…
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The Distinguished Gourmand: The Wilshire
You don’t have to be a long-time Swan Fungus reader to know about my infatuation with the television program Top Chef. Hell, I even feigned interest in one of the show’s judges…
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Sunday Mix Tape Number 243
Sorry, Swan Fungus super-fan Bennett, you were saying something about the Packers? I couldn’t hear you over the sound of my Giants shredding your cheese-heads. Or was it the hush of the…
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Clout – Save Me
“Clout: Tougher than ABBA” You heard it here first. Clout were originally a five-piece, South African million-selling all-girl rock group formed in 1977, best known for their song, “Substitute” (see: Sunday Mix…