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Just watched the documentary “Touch the Sound” which is about deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Just amazing. Glennie is a bewitching personality, to say the least - dynamic and mystical about her approach to sound. Everything to her is a potential source for inspiration - whether it be cracking ice or the sounds [...]

The past few months I’ve gotten together with my pal Decapod Claw and we’ve been playing doom metal - slow droney metal with tons of feedback.
Last monday. after practice, we listened to the Boris/Sunn o))) collaboration “ALTAR” and I confirmed something that I already knew: Boris is God. Every album this doom metal trio [...]

During a recent discussion on the Beatles on em411, race4prize posted a great video about the song “Tomorrow Never Knows” off the Beatles’ “Revolver.” Revolver is one of my all time favorites but I’d always kind of glossed over this song. Howard Goodall set me straight with this video. “Tomorrow” is ground [...]

This is a track I am playing around with right now. I guess it’s shoegazery with lots of other things thrown in. I spent a week at the coast at a friend’s beach house with some music gear and my cello and guitar. He has an old banjo that I tuned up and strummed a [...]

Scott Cortez has been extending the boundaries of shoegaze for years with his ambient project loveliescrushing. His work fuzzes out the guitars even more than My Bloody Valentine with extreme processing and just a bare hint of a drumbeat, augmented by multitracked vocals, all run into a 4-track recorder. He considers the guitar [...]

I saw “The Fountain” yesterday. My snarky three word review: “Intergalactic chick flick”.
Seriously, though, I loved it, despite some problems with the overacting and the slow pacing. The movie is just plain gorgeous, especially the future scenes. I find it striking that the nebula scenes are not computer generated, as Aronofsky made [...]