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Einstürzende Neubauten - The Jewels (Potomak)
14 October 2008Blixa Bargeld and the rest of Neubauten compile a large handful of previously web-only tracks into a electronic/percussive stew.
An Interview with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) - Part Two
30 August 2008The conclusion to my interview with Steven Stapleton, the creative force behind Nurse With Wound.
An Interview with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) - Part One
30 August 2008Steven Stapleton gives a rare glimpse into the mysterious realm of Nurse With Wound.
Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Dairies/Jnana)
3 August 2008Steven Stapleton will cure you, and the method involves mutated jazz beats and a petrol-sodden rag.
Losing My Mind With Francis E. Dec, Esq. and the Reverend Jim Jones
13 June 2008Doc on the Roq’s recordings of Francis E. Dec’s paranoid schizophrenic rantings prove to be fascinating listening, while the Jonestown Death Tape frightens me back into reality.
Ancestor – Phase I: Silence (The Seventh Media)
3 May 2008Part of a trilogy, this is darkwave ambient music, quiet but with serrated edges on its drones. There’s nothing new agey about this ambient, which makes for uneasy listening with its buzzing and clanking amid the drones and a glacial pace of movement that oozes foreboding.
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
5 January 2008There’s a wild streak within – clear-headed musicianship, but also many surprises, all coordinated gracefully by a maestro who into his sixties is making music that’s as visionary as ever.
INTERVIEW: Deerhoof (Part 2)
14 March 2007I think bands that get popular very quickly can combust very quickly, and that was never something that I wanted to emulate.
Elliott Sharp – Cornelia St. Café (New York) – Thursday, February 1, 2007
16 February 2007What Sharp did was take Monkish attributes and emphasize them even further.
INTERVIEW: Deerhoof (Part 1)
16 February 2007Chris’ musical language had a big impact on the band, but I feel like he’s still here because I think we all have incorporated parts of him into our own ways of thinking about and playing music.
Jack Rabid’s Top 10
Week of August 17
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Billy Bragg – Mr. Love & Justice (Anti)
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Bad Religion – New Maps of Hell (deluxe edition) (Epitaph)
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Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe (New West)
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Ron Sexsmith – Exit Strategy of the Soul (Yep Roc)
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Billie Holiday – Beautiful Ballads & Love Songs (Columbia/Legacy/SonyBMG)
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Everest – Ghost Notes (Vapor)
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Rob Dickinson – Fresh Wine for the Horses (double CD) (Fontana/UNI)
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Secret Shine – All of the Stars (Clairecords/Tonevendor)
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The Effigies – Reside (Criminal IQ)
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For Against – Shade Side, Sunny Side (Words on Music)