Chickfactor 25 – An Interview with Gail O’Hara
Founded in 1992 by Gail O’Hara and Pam Berry, Chickfactor is a stalwart of the indie pop scene, publishing one of the longest running and consistently...
Month: November 2017
Music of Anthology: Harry Smith and American Folk Music
Among many other things, Harry Everett Smith made seminal surrealist films, overstayed his welcome at countless cheap hotels, produced the first Fugs album, att...
Show Review: Isaac Rother & the Phantoms – White Owl/Blackwater
Isaac Rother & the Phantoms are one of the best and most entertaining bands you’re missing out on. Luckily for you they tour frequently. I became a fan abou...
Studio Convo #4 DJ Abi Interviews Darin from Wave Action
Abi: tell me about your new album. What are the juicy details? Darin: Well there’s a lot going on with it, we have all kinds of different players. We ...
I Listened So You Don’t Have To: Odd Monster Reviews the Billboard Top Ten
There is nothing inherently wrong with pop music, even modern pop. So why are the Top Ten songs so consistently terrible? I occasionally make the he...
The Story of Instrumental Rock, pt. II
In Part One, I briefly touched on the fact that for a time, Instrumental Rock was the pop music of the era. That era was a few brief years in the early 1960’s, ...
Music of Books: M Train by Patti Smith
Although I’m a huge fan of musicians with a gift for the poetic, I was fairly unfamiliar with Patti Smith. I had heard that she was an incredible memoirist and ...
Music and Memory: The Return of The Clientele
Where does music end and memory begin? Some of my earliest recollections exist solely because of the music that accompanied my experience. I have vivid memories...
What’s the Deal With House Shows?
I walk down the stairs, but get stuck halfway in traffic. The walls are wet with perspiration. I shimmy sideways through a tiny avenue between bodies, only to b...
An Appreciation of Guitars Tuned to Air Conditioners
Amidst the usual flurry of new releases, reissues, record store bin surprises, and mixcloud and bandcamp streams, one record has returned to my turntable again ...