Last night I witnessed my fourth incarnation of RENT. One of the benefits of having a girlfriend who is involved in the theatrical arts is that I’ve become cultured in areas beyond totally obscure forgotten records and really, really bad movies. My mom would drag me to Broadway shows probably once a year when I [...]

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, [...]