young team revisited

Two fairly early soundscapes from Glasgow’s Mogwai which run together almost seamlessly and build on the spidery experimental elegance of Tom Verlaine at his most concise, or Chicago collective, Tortoise. It’s a Sunday thing. Rebus on a bus pass; a restricted service. The first cut – recorded by Andy Miller – was released in January

deep space

LM-9802-7.Mir |mɪə|a Soviet space station, launched in 1986 and designed to be permanently manned.  Owing largely to its financial demands on an impoverished Russian government, the Mir program was terminated in March 2001, when the space station made its fiery reentry into the earth’s atmosphere, splashing down in the South Pacific.  During its 14 years in

zabriskie counterpoint

“you can’t cool off in the mill pond… you can only die.”Unusually grim fare from American folk innovator, John Fahey; recorded in the wake of his rehabilitation from alcohol addiction and depression compounded by a debilitating infection. After collaborating with Cul de Sac and overseeing the release of a double CD retrospective on Rhino in

old tongues

“the ladies’ lament from the ballad of sir patrick spens“.elizabeth eleanor siddal, 1856. “In the reign of Alexander III of Scotland, his daughter Margaret was escorted by a large party of nobles to Norway for her marriage to King Eric; on the return journey many of them were drowned. Twenty years later, after Alexander’s death,

sepultura: blood-rooted

team sepultura. Formed in the affluent industrial capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, in 1984, this is the last Sepultura album to feature original singer, Max Cavalera, who left in December, 1996 (to be replaced by American boy, Derrick Green) after the rest of the band unanimously jettisoned Gloria Cavalera – his wife – from

red red meat

sulfur. Tim Hurley; Bass, Synth, Lap Steel, Qwerty, Berimbau, Vocals, GuitarBrian Deck; Synth, Drums, Percussion, VocalsBen Massarella; Batterie (Assorted)Tim Rutili; Guitar, Violin, Piano, Mandolin, Vocals From Sub Pop: “Roughly incorporated in 1990, RRM were born and bred in a Chicago petri dish. A petri dish made in Chicago, of Chicago, and even germinated in the

hunter inadvertently bags poet

self portrait by hunter s. thompson, on the road to tijuana. year unknown, but hairline still intact. Actually, if I dug around a bit I’m sure I could ferret out a date, but I cannot be f@cked. This blog is privately endorsed by Mr. Thompson. The Ouija Board does not lie. I do not, either.