Four is Also a Magic Number
Being an exceedingly average guy, I spent the years following high school dabbling in community college, working in kitchens at local restaurants, and spending ...
Category: Music History
Los Punks: We Are All We Have- A Definitive Look at the Continuing Latino Punk Scene in Los Angeles
Punk subculture was born in the 1970’s from oppressed youth who wanted no part in conforming to the colonial mass culture surrounding them. The movement was “ag...
Happy Birthday Amancio D’Silva!
Today is Amancio D’Silva’s birthday. A master Indian jazz guitarist who was known for his own recordings and collaborations with Joe Harriet and Sta...
Freeform Portland celebrates the music of Jason Molina
This week marks the five-year anniversary of the death of Jason Molina, a songwriter and musician who recorded under his own name, and under the guise of bands ...
Distilled Perfection: Nostalgia and the garage rock revival
Nostalgia is a funny thing. It turns a blind eye to parts of the past we would rather forget, and allows the happy bits to filter through, creating a false, coz...
Music of Books: Lou Reed
God forbid I should ever be nice to people: it would ruin everything. – Lou Reed Anthony DeCurtis’ Lou Reed: A Life, is likely to go down as the definitiv...
I Learned to play the guitar
My father played guitar as far back as I can remember. It was always a comforting sound to hear him strumming quietly in a corner of our house. He was never sho...
Val Wilmer is Seriously As Serious As Her Life
Valerie Wilmer was born in Harrogate, England Dec, 7th 1941. She is an English woman, photographer, jazz/African, Jamaican West Indies music historian/archivist...
RIP – Mark E. Smith
Wednesday, January 24th…I am seated in my living room, having just learned that Mark. E. Smith, leader of the group, The Fall has passed away. Devastating...
Not a Bad Way to Go: A Story About a Killer Sixties Garage Band Called “The Bruthers”
You could spend the rest of your days (and paychecks) mining your favorite record stores and collector websites for sixties garage punk gold and never even scra...