 New Release Round-up: Forge Your Own SlitsBy
Rick Sawyer
This week, we feature a batch of reissues and new albums that hone in on the groove, hearty listening for early winter that will keep you warm at night.  The Pleasure of Pain TeensBy
Rick Sawyer
Pain Teens sounded like Texas. The band took the tape manipulations, decontextualized vocal samples, and motorik beat of industrial music and wed it to something uniquely Texan: fuzz guitar psychedelia.  OOIOO: Armonico HewaBy
Rick Sawyer
The recent release of OOIOO’s sixth studio album Armonico Hewa represents fresh evidence, if anybody needs it, that Yoshimi P-We’s all-woman noise outfit is more than a Boredoms side project.  Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalBy
Rick Sawyer
Robin D.G. Kelley’s massive new biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is first and foremost a demystification of the composer’s life. Kelley, who holds a chair at the University of Southern California, spent 14 years researching the book, and it’s the most comprehensive biography yet of its subject.  The Action is Here! A Look at Rhino’s Latest Nuggets TriumphBy
Rick Sawyer
If the box set is about to die, at least it’s going out with a bang. Where the Action Is! is one of the best designed box sets in the history of the product.  The Sounds of Soft MachineBy
Rick Sawyer
Soft Machine was the product of the same remarkable cultural shift that gave us electric Miles Davis and Jimi Hendrix, the moment when the formalistic silos that held different genres of music suddenly collapsed and rock, jazz, blues, Indian music, and modern classical could mix with whatever happened to be on the turntable.  Cool Not To Be Cool: The Feelies ReissuedBy
Rick Sawyer
Somewhere along the way the Feelies became obscure. Relegated to the pantheon of rock “influences,” bands who are known more for inspiring other, more famous bands than for their own work. It wasn’t always that way.  Brass Trax Essentials: Black Uhuru SinsemillaBy
Rick Sawyer
Roots reggae ground breakers Black Uhuru existed, in name at least, before Michael Rose joined, but it was Rose’s honeyed voice and lyrical deftness that would come to define the band. |
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