Hey everybody! It’s been a little while. I apologize sincerely for my two-week absence from the KEXP blogernet. It’s been a crazy, busy summer and I let some things slide. I’m not proud of it, but hopefully we can move past it together with some rock and roll.
OK, you know what’s [...]
When I was 12, and The Cowboy Junkies‘ second album The Trinity Session was released, the fact that it was recorded live direct to tape, using one stereo microphone, would not have meant a damn thing to me. In fact, maybe I heard that at the time and it just rolled off my brain, [...]
Most musicians out there have a hard enough time getting their music out to the world, that once it’s there you’d think they would want to make the experience as straightforward as possible. You know, band name, album name, track listing; the whole deal. Many artists, though, seem to thrive on making the [...]
Hey everybody —
Happy almost-Fourth-of-July! It seems that with Independence Day being observed on a Friday, the whole week becomes a wash, so if you’re reading this from your place of work, I commend you on your dedication (well, sort of: what are you doing reading a blog when you should be working?).
Anyway, [...]
You know what’s weird? I grew up in Boston, and the years I was starting to get more into music from independent labels with electric guitars and such were the very years Blake Babies were most active around Boston. And yet… I never really listened to them. I heard their name all [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
