If you’re anything like me, you probably have a CD or two — or have recorded a CD or two — employing the use of the toy piano. There’s something about those tinny, slightly-out-of-tune little wonders that can add just the right light-hearted touch of melody to a song. So, yeah; toy pianos, [...]
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And here the orouboros that is Review Revue/college radio/independent music made by weirdos at last swallows its tail. About a year and a half ago, I posted this thorough dissection of the Young God EP by the band Swans. Released in 1984, this record was so influential that a couple years later one [...]
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OK, I’ll admit it — there’s not a huge amount of commentary on the cover of this fine, fine slab of vinyl. But Bitch Magnet’s Ben Hur – along with Slint’s Spiderland — is a classic, a founding document of post-rock, if you will, and I had to take this moment to shed a [...]
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Yes, yes, we all love to delve into those obscure bands that twelve people knew about when they were around and now nobody remembers, but sometimes it’s fun to check in with an old favorite - a legend, even. It is in that spirit that this week I bring you 1984’s Goodbye Cruel World, [...]
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Like any good radio station, we here at Review Revue love to take requests. So when reader Damon Creed (who comments on these blog posts occasionally, but whose comments as a KCMU DJ are featured on a large proportion of the records I pull out for the blog) suggested I look into the output [...]
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Happy Thursday! It is time for some regional punk rock, courtesy our neighbors to the north, NoMeansNo. Formed in 1979 (!) in British Columbia by brothers John and Rob Wright, they continue to rock their dedicated fans in the US, Canada and Europe to this very day. NoMeansNo means business! This [...]
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OK, people, we’re going to take a stroll down memory lane here…
When I was a much younger person, I went to a summer camp in Maine. Very often we would have camp counselors from the UK. I’m not sure why; maybe some kind of exchange or something? Anyway, these counselors were always [...]
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It seems like every week here on Review Revue I’m saying how old a band or record is, and how crazy that is, so apologies if I’m starting to sound like a broken record (ha!), but… this year marks 25 years since The Walkabouts became a band. Isn’t that crazy? They started here [...]
This week’s installment of Review Revue brings us Anacortes’s own Pounding Serfs and their self-titled LP, which was the fourth record released on the mighty K Records. I had never heard of this group (which features Jon Lunsford, brother of Beat Happening guitar player/Knw-Yr-Own founder Bret Lunsford) before pulling this record out, but the [...]
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The Posies — Jon Auer, Ken Stringfellow, et al. — have been an important part of the Seattle (and national) indie-pop scene for over 20 years now. While never as huge as some of the other bands that came out of the Northwest onto major labels in the early 90s, they have certainly left [...]
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