California Afternoons
I came across Absent City while indulging in a recommendation from a friend. At times, and especially on the deliberate and wistful “California Afternoons,” the band sounds like imagining if Neil Halstead had gotten stuck between Mojave 3 and Slowdive. The video is a collage of vintage found footage from
Condor Sparks
This quote from Teresa of Ávila resonates strongly with me. Why is it that some days, even calamities just roll off your back and others, reading the slightest negativity in body language from a person with whom you are interacting can throw you off your game? What is different about
High Fidelity
Our fickle entertainment loyalities have us bouncing around the streaming landscape.
Babyland General
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, we celebrated Pascha a few weeks ago. I wondered how many of the parish faithful would be drawn to our middle-of-the-night celebration. It turns out, pretty much all of them. Even my friend, whose wife had twins earlier in the day, came to the Pascha
Notes From A Quiet Life
A new Washed Out video uses AI to promote the first single from a forthcoming album.
Into The Realm
I have mixed feelings about a band that does doom metal with this much conviction.
Love Child (Never Meant To Be)
Bandcamp has a feature on Sonic Youth and Beat Happening contemporaries, Love Child. John Morrison, writing about the short-lived group, notes that their sound, while not pop-punk as we think of it, nevertheless was both pop and punk. Particularly on their early 7” singles, they have a shambling, amateurish sound
Your Analyst Was A Placekicker For The Falcons
Examining the attempts to replace religious observances with secular equivalents.
Music Media Mayhem
What is the best way to buy and consume music in 2024?
A La Sala
A band that has spawned many imitators keeps adding to the quality of their catalog.
