Shaker Style
A movie about the Shakers inspired my curiousity to learn more about the sect.
Dream Shake
An under-the-radar band that nevertheless turned in a lovely dreampop performance for tonight's Saturday Night Video.
R.I.P Dave Kendall
Dave Kendall, creator and host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, has passed away. The British-born Kendall conceived 120 Minutes after joining MTV as a producer, pitching the network a dedicated program for the punk, post-punk, goth, synth-pop, ska, and other underground sounds largely ignored by corporate rock
Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar
Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar by Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra One problem with posting your listening habits on a periodically updated Now page is that those habits can literally change overnight. A couple of days ago, I updated my Now page, only to get deeply into a Swedish
Poptimus Prime
Freddie deBoer writes about how poptimism has achieved so much success because of the cultural context in which it was born. A culture that considers it wrong to have standards that can identify one thing as better than another is fertile ground for the elevation of terrible art. That’s
Orthodox Burnout
A new blog/newsletter to me as of today is Ghost Drive America, which belongs to Edwin Robinson.1 Robinson writes about burnout six years after becoming Orthodox as part of a ROCOR church. I haven’t been Orthodox quite as long as Robinson, but nevertheless, I identified with almost
I Set My Face to the Hillside
A veteran post-rock band turns in a fresh performance of a decades-old classic.
Fade To Blue
Zigging with your weblog when others are zagging.
A Room You Can't See
What did we lose when music on physical media declined?
Forgotten Favorite
1989-1992 by Velocity Girl Some good news came this week in the form of more Velocity Girl remastering. This time it's a compilation of non-album tracks from various places being released by Slumberland Records. The collection is called 1989-1992 and the contents are precisely what