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I love Smog for so many reasons. Bill Callahan’s deep, dour voice. His terse, morbidly funny lyrics (”It’s our anniversary, and you’ve hidden my keys / this is one anniversary you’re spending with me”). The fact that he’s worked with two of my other favorite musicians, Jim O’Rourke and John McEntire. […]
Beth Ditto of the Gossip is one of the awesomest, sassiest frontladies in rock. This show was to raise funds to help pay for her emergency gall bladder surgery - a very worthy cause. The show was at the Doug Fir, one of Portland’s newer venues, with faux-timber walls and a large hipster […]
Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is… John Cage was a pioneer in experimental music and defined and gave credibility to the form.
As with other edge forms that push the limits of a particular form of expression, there is little agreement as to the boundaries of experimental […]
So for my first post, I’m going to jump on a bandwagon. I really hate top 10 lists, and I can’t rate stuff for shit. But this year’s been a good one for tuneage. This is in no order.
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy Continuing with the vintage keyboards/angst vibe of their previous […]
