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2014

Saturday, March 22nd

passings

Scott Asheton, drummer (Stooges), August 16, 1949-March 15, 2014

Live (rehearsal), Tribute to the Stooges (SA, drums; Ron Asheton, guitar; J Mascis, guitar; Mike Watt, vocals, bass), “1970,” Belgium (Hasselt), 2002

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Live, Iggy and the Stooges, “Now I Wanna Be Your Dog,” France (Clisson), 2011

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Live, Stooges, “1970,” Michigan (Goose Lake Festival), 1970

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lagniappe

reading table

What do the sky and gardens know
of such disappointments?

—August Kleinzahler, “September” (fragment)

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2014

Friday, March 21st

sounds of Los Angeles

Living Off the Wall: East Los, 2014

Trailer

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#1 (Backyard Intro)

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#2 (Anthony)

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#3 (Lauren)

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#4 (Nekro)

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#5 (The Show)

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2014

Friday, March 14th

sounds from all over

Russia

Anton Maskeliade, “Crown,” Moscow, 2014

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Japan

Perfume, “Sweet Refrain,” 2013

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Egypt

Cellar Door, “Blind,” 2013

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2014

Tuesday, March 4th

serendipity*

Never underestimate the power of unadulterated silliness.

BOB, “Thomas Edison” (1980)

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lagniappe

random thoughts

Life story: young once; then a long middle period; now old.

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*This I bumped into yesterday, listening to the radio—Liz Berg’s show on WFMU—while working on a murder case.

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2014

Friday, February 28th

only rock ’n’ roll

Cloud Nothings, “Psychic Trauma”

Live, Houston, 2013

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Recording, 2014

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lagniappe

reading table

August Kleinzahler (1949-), reading “Portrait of My Mother in January”:

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The older I get the more grateful I am not to be told how everything comes out.

—William Maxwell (1908-2000), novelist, New Yorker fiction editor, etc.

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2014

Friday, February 21st

only rock ’n’ roll

The Ex, “Double Order,” France (Orleans), 2013

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found words

From the Chicago Reader music section (2/20/14):

. . . hails from the same quasi-grimestep/post-IDM interzone that’s home to artists as disparate as . . .

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This Liverpool trio plays what it calls ‘caveman doom’ . . .

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. . . retrofuturist murder ballad . . .

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. . . works the same territory that grindcore and sludge bands cleared in the 90s.