Archive for the 'etc' Category
This was posted over at Brooklyn Vegan too, but who reads that old thing?
1. Total Fest
2. Yashicamat 124G
3. Sharkbite Studios, Oakland CA
4. Northern California camping
5. Finishing tour with “Hole in the Sky”, with Stavros from Atlas Moth on vox
6. Jon Howell
7. Every recording session I got to do this year
8. fastmail.fm
9. Peavey customer service
10. Ninkasi Brewing Company
With Bandcamp links where applicable. (Seven out of eleven current bands, by the way.) I like Bandcamp a lot.
Young Widows – In And Out Of Youth And Lightness
No contest, my favorite of the year. This record is incredible. Songs, performances, tones, recording, everything.
True Widow – As High As The Highest… and INO
Their first record dug a hole; these two crawled into it. I don’t know what that means but it sounds right. One of the few bands I hear and wish I was in that band.
Batillus – Furnace
Watching these guys play most of this record every night for two weeks = great. Watching people get knocked on their ass by the start of that first song = really great.
ME & LP – Chez Raymond
Super nice. I could listen to Lisa Papineau sing the dictionary.
Northless – Clandestine Abuse
Fuck my face, this record is enormous and heavy and hooky and awesome.
Whores – Ruiner
Perfect modern take on 90s drop-D riffage. Great recording too.
Paul McCartney – Ram
How did I never hear this record before? How was this made in 1971?
Cellos – Bomb Shelter
Am I just a sucker for Canadian noise rock? I stumbled on this on bandcamp a few weeks ago and I just keep listening to it.
Cartographer – Hats, Capes, Dark Arts
I shouldn’t list this since I recorded it and they’re buddies, but I genuinely love this record. Shellac-inspired aluminum guitar smart-assery.
KEN Mode – Venerable
I have loved KEN Mode for years. When this record is on, it is fucking ON. There is no other band doing what these guys do.
Mongoloid Village – Folly
Excellent weird rocking. Parts after parts after parts, but it works. These guys are allowed to name drop King Crimson; your shitty band isn’t.
Burmese – Lun Yurn
Batshit / awesome.
1. Rubber horse heads
2. Tape Op
3. Batillus
4. Universal Audio
5. Vintage Ibanez, in its many-stringed forms
6. BaileyWorks sling bag
7. Room mics
8. Couch guitar straps
9. Bandago
10. Ricola honey/herb lozenges
I finally replaced my antique Movable Type install with a current WordPress. (and for now, a customized version of the fspring theme.)
That last design, the MT one, was pretty tweaked out and hand-written and sucked to write, but it lasted six years. Actually, I still like it. But I was never going to migrate it; it was stuck with that specific version of MT.
While I was gutting things, I jettisoned about 90% of my blog archive, which dated back to 1999(!). Nothing anybody will miss.
RSS will probably hiccup, but hopefully redirects are working such that my thousands of readers will continue to never miss a post.
Right. Hello.