Savages vs. Siouxsie
- Yes I went and bought Silence Yourself the day it came out, shortly after reading the Sasha Frere-Jones review about it, where he appears to be having an orgasm for the duration of his 700 word article. I have no regrets.
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“Top 50 by Nirvana”
Kurt Cobain listed these as his Top 50 albums in his journal, probably sometime in 1993. The playlist below includes a song from each album, two songs from a few of the albums.
Great OD’s on This Day In History
20 years ago yesterday, Kurt Cobain OD’d on heroin for…like, the 10th or 11th time. Or maybe it was more like the 20th. Or maybe he’d previously OD’d even more frequently than that, it’s kind of hard to tell. When I was leafing through a book about the young man at the library, it fell […]
Death for Five Voices//Carlo Gesualdo//Werner Herzog
1. Werner Herzog is a sick, sick, total-singularity kind of genius. 2. So was Prince Carlo Gesualdo, although Gesualdo was more flagrantly psychotic. 3. Death in Five Voices is Herzog’s movie about Carlo Gesualdo. 4. You should watch this movie. 5. You should go to Amazon and buy this movie if you’ve got the cash and […]
A Century of Champagne & Reefer
SON HOUSE: I learnt the hard way what the B-L-U-E-S MEAN. Blues we call it. Some people you got, you got the foot blues, you got the rabbit blues, it’s all KINDA blues, you let the PEOPLE tell it. Aint no such thing but one kind. One kind. That consisted between male and female. And that’s what the kinda’ love come to. Ain’t talking’ bout the love of God now. Don’t mess him up with it… Just a different kind of love. Then that bring about this thing called BLUES. That’s when you been deceived by your fellow man, I mean by your love one, that you THOUGHT that you love… You come up DECEIVED by the very one you put all your trust in. I didn’t think you would do me like this. That’s the kind of love that I’m talking’ about. Boy that’ll really hurt too sometime. O some guys go out and cut they own throat, jump in the rivers and anything else.
Since it’s Muddy Waters’ 100th birthday this month of April, and the 30th anniversary of his death, we’re taking time out to honor and remember him here at the journal.
WHAT WAVE?
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BEST TEST PATTERN(S)
All the best of the best semi-autonomously discovered music + the best test patterns available on the internet are RIGHT HERE at your friendly neighborhood noise label. Click the images to skip to the playlist. “They don’t control the controls,” sings Wayne Coyne in the poppin’ new hit […]