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The Corrupted - El Mundo Frio CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy A last minute feature on Ben Chasny/ Six Organs of Admittance . The final quote has r...

On The Congos and Friends, African Roots, and the Rhythm & Sound Remixes On the Jamaica to Toronto compilation When I was out in Portlan...

On the Beta radio yesterday, driving to the house of god : Nelly Furtado "I'm Loose" This is some crazy on-air joint from a 6C...

Since these thingys are worth a thousand words, it means it should make up for weeks of lame updates, I reckon (as well as showing off the n...

Ugh, I know, I know, this really has just been turning into a 'clips' site for the past few weeks, hasn't it? Syd Barrett obitua...

Since music critics pondering food is all the rage, I decided to take a taste myself: on Doughnuts in Seattle on Doughnuts in Portland on...

Willie Nelson - The Complete Atlantic Sessions Sound Team - "Movie Monster" Public Image Limited - Metal Box reissue (and further ...

The legendary hardcore band, Millions of Dead Cops! No, really! At a vegan potluck! There have been two occasions where I almost moved to Po...

My host Marshall in Eugene, Oregon informs me that it's actually Springfield I am in, and that neighboring Springfield, Oregon is actual...

In a way, I'm glad that the jewelry store isn't open when I rush over there as if to complete all my chores before my flight. My wat...

"The Circle Game": A feature on Numero Group's Ladies from the Canyon compilation in LA Weekly Espers - II The Black Angels -...

In a recent New Yorker article, Samuel Hynes recalls a line Ezra Pound says to him when they happen upon each other in a park: "It...

In Les Blank's documentary on the torturous struggle between man and nature as captured in Herzog's filming of Fitzcaraldo , Herzog ...

My friend and I were truly desperate, trying to find something of value on the satellites come Saturday late night. Infomercials, heavy meta...

Imaginational Anthem in a post-Fahey world Matmos, Uusitalo, and Matthew Herbert (oof, the edit decimated both the first and last graph) Si...

Afternoons in Madrid linger with me some five years on. My belly full of odd meat gelatins (or some pork curio from the Musee de Jambon with...

Since neither the landlords nor Time-Warner give a fuck who my new editors are: AFX Danielson and Current 93 Kiila (all the way at the bot...

Yorick's skull to be (or not to be). "Hey look, a signed picture of Del Close!" gets said as facetious aside in the basement o...

In Gates of Heaven , the pill is blamed for the rising cult of pet-dom, a pacifier for unfruitful mammas. Randomly coming upon the televised...

It's not the fact that I'm working on yet another chapbook that bases itself in the year of 2005 but in how birds played a part in m...