Beneath these comments is my ballot for ILM's 2021 End of Year Tracks & Albums Poll

We could vote 25 of each, though only for tracks and albums nominated by the voters; there were over 900 tracks, but I only nommed three - the first three on my ballot - since it seemed to miss the spirit and the adventure to nominate a whole bunch of tracks and then ( Read more... )

Posting to let you know that my friend and former bandmate Andrew Klimeyk suffered a series of strokes and lost his job and needs several therapies. John Morton of X___X has set up a GoFundMe page for Andrew. Andrew is a great human being and a brilliant musician (X___X, Ugly Beauty, Johnny & the Dicks, Red Dark Sweet, Death On A Stick, Scarcity of ( Read more... )

Purchase CD from OSR, and Zach certainly deserves your business; but also you can download and stream at bandcamp, and can stream on YouTube* and Spotify.** Orig. cassette 1984, CD reissue 2016. [UPDATE JUNE 2017: OSR have closed down, so the YouTube and Spotify streams will go dark one of these days. However, Zach says that the bandcamp will stay ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I've performed in a number of rock bands, though my first group was a folk trio. We were high-schoolers playing a student dance, doing rousing sea chanteys and battle anthems in a headlong, banjo-picking style. We excited the crowd. (I was in elementary school, age 11 or 12, when I first came up with the idea; can't say I had ( Read more... )

Ah, this is the Mark Sinker passage I was looking for but not finding last weekend when I wrote my little critique of Spin's "Top 100 Alternative Albums Of The 1960s." It was here at koganbot, four years ago, down in a comment thread, coming later in the overall discussion than I'd realized:

here's what i'm objecting to, cast as a fable: [band xyz ( Read more... )

An entity called "Cassetto Editions" has uploaded several Red Dark Sweet tracks onto YouTube:

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"Mrs. Hanson," words & music by Charlotte Pressler ( Read more... )