I’m taking to the Internet to talk about this movie because no one wants to enter into debate about it with me in the real world. And by “the real world” I mean the fake version of the MTV reality show in which we all exist. Apparently whenever I don’t like a movie or band [...]

Back in March I listed the ten best “outsider” records I was then-currently enjoying. One of them was called Great Fences Of Australia. Two violinists, Jon Rose and Hollis Taylor, wandered the Australian outback and bowed various fences — of which there thousands — which run endlessly in all directions. The string musicians playing fences [...]

I’m trying, I’m really trying to be a more well-rounded person. This includes things like going to the theater with my girlfriend on a Wednesday night instead of getting drunk at local Mexican restaurants and stumbling home with a belly full of tequila and free (read: foul) tacos. One of her favorite plays is winding [...]

I don’t think it is necessary for me to laud my hero, Leonard Cohen, any more than I already have on this website. As a singer-songwriter, a poet, and a novelist he is in a class all his own. His first three studio albums are as flawless as they are unparalleled. I dare you to [...]

A recent thread on the Electrical Audio forum keyed me into an available download of the recent BBC documentary entitled Krautrock – The Rebirth Of Germany. As an avid fan of German progressive/experimental music from the late ’60s and early ’70s, it offered fascinating insight into the lives of many of the musicians commonly linked [...]

The self-titled Evergreen release (originally on Hi-Ball records, later reissued by Temporary Residence) is a monster boogie punk/rock record. “Klark Kent” is an all-time great tune. I don’t even mind that the band was recorded by DFA’s James Murphy, who as a musician couldn’t write a half-decent song to save his life. They sounded raw, [...]

A co-worker dropped off a copy of this documentary for me to watch at my leisure, and since I work in an independent record store I think I can offer a slightly more unique response to it than your average audience member. To put it succinctly, this is a film about record stores being shuttered [...]