You know who doesn’t get a lot of respect these days? The prog rockers. Yeah, that’s right: the noodlers, the wankers, the incessant time-signature-changer-uppers, the guys with boards full of effects for their guitars and lyrics about larks’ tongues and moonchildren and crimson kings. And I totally get it. But have [...]
One of my favorite discoveries of 2009 is Green Monkey Records, a small local label that first started putting out rock music in Seattle when Nirvana was just a gleam in Kurt Cobain’s eye (or something like that), and managed to get out of the business just before they could have actually made any money. [...]
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Maybe it was the mental scarring I received from watching The Wall in the movie theater at the age of 6 or 7 (”It has animation!” my older brother said. “It’s like a cartoon!”), but Syd Barrett was always my favorite member of Pink Floyd. In my teenaged years, I spent many an [...]
This week’s installment of Review Revue is another bit of nostalgic indulgence for this Boston boy; I hope you don’t mind.
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Sure, most of us first heard the song “Sliver” when it was released on Incesticide in 1992, but it was actually quite a successful single in its own right in 1990. (It even has its own Wikipedia page! And a video! Not bad for a song recorded in one hour while another [...]
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Hey, happy new year! What better time than the transition to a new year — indeed, a new decade — to bust out some really dark, pissed-off punk rock? Black Flag’s second LP — released in 1984 on SST — was a bit of a departure for the notoriously fast and loud band, [...]
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Merry Christmas Eve, everybody! The other day Kevin sent out a playlist e-mail with a reference to “St. Nick” Cave, and it inspired me to hunt down one of old St. Nick’s records for a pseudo-seasonal offering (though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend throwing this record on at your family holiday gatherings; it might give [...]
In the days of KCMU past, so-called “World Music” was by no means exempt from conflicting opinions, and Ashwin Batish’s Sitar Power is a great example. The son of a renowned performer and composer of North Indian music, Batish and his dad formed the Batish Institute of Indian Music and Fine Arts in the Monterey [...]
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It seems the band name “Boys Life” will mean different things to you depending on where and when you grew up. For hardcore/emo kids who came of age in the 90s, of course, it refers to the band that “sprang out of the post-hardcore scene” in Kansas City and went on to birth such [...]
As you probably are aware, there is a new kid in town here at KEXP — and by “kid” I mean “radio show” and by “in town” I mean “airing on Saturday night.” It is called Seek & Destroy (which seems kind of an aggressive name to me, but hey, it takes all kinds), [...]
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