My Airwaves

For the first decade of my existence I pretty much lived in a dead zone. My dad was too cheap to get cable, so we relied on a 40′ antenna tower for our television needs. I didn’t really miss cable till I got a little older and things like USA Up All Night, movies with […]

Zeros & Ones : Mr. Robot’s Electronic Symphony

For the longest time TV shows just bored me. I felt that TV had become this vacuous void where art and commerce said “F*ck it, let’s take a dump on the viewing public and see how long it takes them to say anything.” Of course the only “art” involved was the art of selling. Not […]

Cate Le Bon’s “Sisters”

Have you heard Cate Le Bon? You haven’t? Well go grab Television’s Marquee Moon, The Strokes’ Is This It, and a couple Nico albums. Now put them all in a blender, sprinkle with a smattering of 60s garage rock and The Owls Daughters and Suns, have Deerhoof give their blessing, then hit “liquify”. What you […]

Revisited: Television’s Marquee Moon

From the ragged opening guitar chords of ‘See No Evil’, to the strained, ending notes of album closer ‘Torn Curtain’, Television’s Marquee Moon was and is an all out classic. No other album from CBGBs golden age of post punk, new wave, and no wave captured the essence of the 50s free-thinking beat poets, the 60s hard […]