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Category: band features

Jakob Skott’s ‘Taurus Rising’ coming in December

I haven’t made it a secret that I am a huge fan of Danish drummer Jakob Skott. His work with Causa Sui is essential in making those psych rockers what they are. He adds a jazz fusion flair to the psychedelic atmospherics they create. Imagine Tony Williams playing with Hawkwind, or NEU! and you’ll get […]

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Wilco’s Dark Passenger :: A Ghost Is Born Ten Years Later

I don’t think there’s a more divisive Wilco record than A Ghost Is Born(maybe Wilco(The Album)). It was a record filled with claustrophobic silence, whispered musical intentions, and the sound of numbed pain. It was the record where people asked “What’s going on with Jeff Tweedy’s voice?” Well I asked it, anyways. It felt both […]

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Jim O’Rourke Made Me Love Sonic Youth

When I was in high school Sonic Youth were this mythical band. They were one of those 120 Minutes bands that I couldn’t relate to at all. In fact, there weren’t too many 120 Minutes bands I could relate to. Sonic Youth, Pixies, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, and other bands of that […]

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“Music is a subtle mystery” :: The Pseudosurfers and Their Songs for Lovers

Photos by Matteo James Moroni Early on in 2012 I was still getting my feet wet with this whole blog thing. Still trying to find my voice as a writer and looking for new bands to write about. At this point in February of 2012 I was writing about bands I already knew and loved. […]

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Goodbye Van Occupanther: Tim Smith and life after Midlake

In the fall of 2007 I read an article in Spin Magazine about this band named Midlake. Denton, Texas boys with a penchant for dark, folksy songs that had the feel of both Fairport Convention, Fleetwood Mac, and a Ray Brandbury story. It was a review of a live show and the journalist put them […]

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All You Need To Know: A Conversation with Medicine’s Brad Laner

I know at some point in our lives we think that we’ve heard it all. That we are musically omnicient and there is nothing that hasn’t passed our ears and our firm, pointed judgement. Hey, I’m guilty of it. You have those moments when “so and so” or “that guy at work” or “grandma” asks […]

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It’s All About A Feeling: A Conversation with White Hills’ Dave W

I can remember it rather clearly.  I was perusing my favorite blogs back in March -when we were all still aglow from My Bloody Valentine’s triumphant return after two decades of knob turning and hand wringing- when I came across an article on 1537 about a band called White Hills.  Mr. 1537 couldn’t have been […]

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