Rationale here: đź’Ż https://magnetmagazine.com/2017/05/29/magnet-classics-the-making-of-interpols-turn-on-the-bright-lights/
Jun 12, 2024
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For all y'all Interpol fans out there, I wrote a long piece about the making of the album for Magnet, the first in which every original band member actually participated (I even heard back from Carlos D although he's not quoted, per his request). I learned a thing or two. And still love this band.
https://magnetmagazine.com/2017/05/29/magnet-classics-the-making-of-interpols-turn-on-the-bright-lights/
Feb 17, 2024
I feel like that band's frontman, Britt Daniel, has turned "mood-setting closing track" into something of a cottage industry.
The best of these should make you want to replay the album, no?
"Everybody's at disadvantage/speaking with their second language"
May 6, 2024
I think I rec'd this elsewhere, but it's the perfect song for getting ready and getting shit done. A silly call to arms for getting menial tasks done and getting out the door. Hard not to be motivated when you chant along to "This is the self-preservation society!" over and over again.
(Dim All The Lights is such a good one though!)
Apr 2, 2024
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Hey tyler hopefully this doesn’t violate some PI.FYI golden rule
But after nearly two years of writing, editing and arguing, my book about the EP is coming out in May and can be preordered here:
https://hozacrecords.com/product/aifl/
The book is about the origins, history and cultural impact of the EP since these little objects first started coming out in the 50s.
Over 50 of my music biz friends then helped me shape the list and review the top 200 ever released, according to us (ha).
For those of you who are into this kind of geekery/snobbery, I can’t wait to hear what you think. A labor of love, as all books are! ❤️
Mar 27, 2024
“Songs Of a Lost World” coming to a goth listening station near you Nov 1 🖤
The fr FW Me Friday the 13th the world was looking for
Sep 14, 2024
I will fail to explain just how much this band meant to me in the 90s.
So I will borrow from AV Club who did a fine job of distilling it:
“Unwound is the best band of the ’90s. Not just because of how prolific, consistent, and uncompromising it was, but because of how perfectly Unwound nested in a unique space between some of the most vital forms of music that decade: punk, post-rock, indie rock, post-hardcore, slow-core, and experimental noise. That jumble of subgenres doesn’t say much; in fact, it falls far short of what Unwound truly synthesized and stood for. Unwound stood for Unwound. But in a decade where most bands were either stridently earnest or stridently ironic, Unwound wasn’t stridently anything. It was only itself. In one sense Unwound was the quietest band of the ’90s, skulking around like a nerdy terror cell. In another sense it was the loudest, sculpting raw noise into contorted visions of inner turmoil and frustration.”
R.I.P. Vern Rumsey.
This is their finest song, from their finest album.
I really can’t say enough about the sheer bloody minded genius of this group. 🖤
Mar 23, 2024