Jan
18
Review: Lucifer – Black Mass (1971)
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People die, but music doesn’t though I would be a happy man if I could murder Good Charlotte’s entire catalog. Though I am forever damned by “Boys and Girls”, I will be able to listen to the work of Mort Garson even though he passed away earlier this month. Mort Garson was an innovator when [...]
Jan
16
Review: The Zig Zag People – The Zig Zag People Take Bubble Gum Music Underground (1969)
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In the end everything you love and cherish will be bastardized for the sake of profit. Just take a look at all the cartoons you adored as a child; the Chipmunks have been hip-hopified, the Transformers have been used as a tool to sell General Motors vehicles, and soon the studios will put out Thundercats, [...]
Jan
10
Many things baffle me; women, higher order partial derivatives, the continued existence of the elderly, but most importantly the fact that Fela Kuti is not well-known in America. For those whose haven’t heard of Fela Kuti, he was a true renegade in Nigerian music and politics. In music, Fela Kuti was a trailblazer throughout his [...]
Jan
2
There are three loves in my life. Music. Science fiction. And beautiful nerdy women. And Ornette Coleman’s aptly named Science Fiction. Contains the first two of my three loves. Ornette Coleman, if you aren’t well versed on the man, is one of primary innovators in the sub-genre of free jazz and one hell of a [...]
Jan
2
Colossal Youth by the Young Marble Giants was the eighth full length album released on the Rough Trade label and that is surprising considering their other releases were primarily experimental post-punk acts like, Pere Ubu, The Fall, Essential Logic, etc. For the Young Marble Giants play charming minimal pop songs, in which their lead vocalist, [...]