Writing about things that do and don't exist
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Aysie - Dreamy Lover Aysie's yearning vocals, both sung and rapped, float above stutter-stop percussion and pillowy synths; a fitting listen for this Valentine's Day week. More from Aysie Follow on Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5POjpgEEu74 ### Stay Another Season - Justify Your … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.16.24
Dream Home knocks the sound of rock music invitingly off-kilter. There's a dulled sensation I get in my head the morning after a night of restless sleep. It registers visually as well as mentally; surroundings look a bit wonky, like they're being viewed through trick glass. Dream Home's latest release, Hold On So Tough, passes … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Dream Home – Lake Artemesia
The sludgy first single from the duo's upcoming album, Direct Inject (Relapse). Sixty-six years ago, in 1958, another duo released a song--affixed with a six-syllable title--that reckoned with the terrifying Pandora's Box that was and is the atomic bomb, what horrors it did and could still unleash. Where The Louvin Brothers' "Great Atomic Power" was … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Zombi – Post-Atomic Horror
Today's exercise features a riff on the history, present, and possible future of Bar Harbor, Maine. HARBOR RIDGE STOP DEMONSTRATOR The harbor is depressed. It lies all day under blankets. Blankets of fog that run aground and push through the streets until they tangle themselves up in the mountains. Blankets of people, some dragging lobster … Continue reading Random Word Generator 02.13.24
Demo Disc is the culmination of a series of singles and videos that Sherry CD-ROM has released over the past year. Is it possible to really know yourself? The idea of "you" that you hold in your head does not exist anywhere else. No matter how truly you try to draw your own outline for … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Sherry CD-ROM – Demo Disc
The emphatic quintet returns with its first new song in eighteen months. The rousing "It's Your Call" is a heat-seeking musical missile trained on the glow of the brain's endorphin centers. It begs to be belted in front of bathroom mirrors--accompanied, preferably, by windmilled air guitar--its melodies echoing off tile surfaces while neighbors scribble angry … Continue reading Daily Yinz – The Ghost Club – It’s Your Call
A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot today ### I Swallow Ghosts - John Cena Later Skyscraping riffs? Check. Belted vocals with British affectation on vowel sounds? Check. Punny song title shielding raw, bruised emotion? Check. The emo trifecta, completed. More from I Swallow Ghosts Follow on Instagram and Facebook … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 02.09.24
Watererer's latest release is an exercise in pure improvisation. Spontaneity plays a role in all of Watererer's albums, but it's the central tenet of their latest, EM Stealth Sound New Geometry Hippocampal Ice and Space (Watererer again wins the award for Band Whose Album Titles Most Resemble A Dictionary With Darts Thrown At It), a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Watererer – William Henry Butter Fox Tally Talbot
A meditative performance that took place at the Carnegie Museum of Art in December. A raga is a melodic framework within Indian classical music meant to "color the mind" and instill certain emotional states within the listener. On December 14th, artists André Solomon (flute), Trē Seguritan Abalos (flutes), Stephen Chin (tabla), and Aaron Basskin (synths … Continue reading Daily Yinz – André Solomon, Trē Seguritan Abalos, Stephen Chin, Aaron Basskin – Do we really know all the sounds of winter?
Today's exercise features a state representative on the verge of a mental breakdown CONSTITUENCY BRAINSTORM SICK DETERMINE “Your constituency depends on you, sir.” “What do you think this is over here?” “There have been articles, sir. Posts.” “It sort of looks like a little scorpion.” “A scorpion, sir?” Rhonda Meeples, Rep. Brendt Rooski’s flinty Chief … Continue reading Random Word Generator 02.06.24
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