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Freak Scene: The Mint Chicks and Finding Beauty in Bad Recordings
According to iTunes, since last Tuesday, I have listened to The Mint Chicks‘ “Stolen Hill” 89 times. It’s probably more though. I listened to it while commuting a bunch, and rewound it to focus on … read more »
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Freak Scene: New Sounds From Way Out
One weird thing about Freak Scene is that because of the constantly shifting nature of what we define as weird music, things that normally would fit perfectly here suddenly seem like they should be part … read more »
Freak Scene: Tyondai Braxton’s HIVE
Whenever I interact with experimental music that’s “crossed over” from dingy warehouse spaces to museums or planetariums or zoos or really just places that feel more traditionally welcoming than, say, a building corroded with rust … read more »
Freak Scene: Four Tet’s Rounds
In 2003, a lot of people still had Discmans (Discmen?). The iPod already existed, but wasn’t yet ubiquitous. I had one of those portable CD players that could handle data CDs, which could hold multiple … read more »
Freak Scene: Grouper and Music as Texture
Up until recently, most of Grouper’s music was largely unavailable on vinyl. Liz Harris would press limited runs, and they’d disappear almost immediately. The MP3s are easy to come by, but there’s a religious quality … read more »
Freak Scene: Oni Ayhun
If “Full of Fire,” the first single from The Knife’s Shaking The Habitual, says anything about the brother-sister duo’s brutal, difficult and often beautiful career as musicians obsessed with austere sterility and ghostly vocals, it’s … read more »
Freak Scene: Black Dice’s Album Beaches and Canyons Is Still Really Important
Depending on who you are, maybe you know Black Dice as that super weird band that opens up for Animal Collective sometimes. Maybe you remember them from their noisier, more organic roots, or maybe you’ve … read more »
Freak Scene: A Year
A couple years ago, crammed in the back of a car, my roommate asked me what my top albums of the year were. I went on a too long rant that could basically be boiled … read more »
Freak Scene: Growing’s Color Wheel
When I first started hanging out with my friend Jamie, there was music all over his apartment. He was a buyer at Mondo Kim’s, which, at the time, was a massive, multi-story record and video … read more »
Freak Scene: Sam Moss and the Imaginational Anthem Compilation
For a while now, Tompkins Square Records’ Josh Rosenthal has been putting together compilations of acoustic guitar playing. For the label’s latest volume, Imaginational Anthem 5 (out November 13th), Rosenthal recruited Sam Moss to put … read more »
