CultureOfNone

This is another of those legacy CD titles that somehow went “out of print” – although it’s difficult to argue for a historical preservation of the band later known as Wang Chung.   Released on One Way Records in 1995 (see concise label background), this early ’80s debut is represented in the file sharing community [...]

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As I’d mentioned here before, in the mid ’90s there were scores of 8 Track tapes to be got for a quarter apiece, and this gem was one of my earliest purchases. I’m not sure if at that point I was already familiar with Michael Urbaniak’s jazz fusion violin work, but the sonic experience here [...]

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I found this interesting fragment in the Culture Of None archives:  It’s an elementary school assignment – clearly a “choose a career and research it” theme paper – bearing the date April 4, 1984.   I was a 5th grader.

I’m guessing I wrote this one mostly from intuitive observation and with minimal research, so it [...]

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Satchel was an enigmatic post-grunge entry into the roster of Epic’s more adventurous (i.e. less profitable) signings.
They were quietly promoted as a side project of a side project (Brad) that coupled Shawn Smith’s soulful croon and keyboards with a rock ensemble given star-power by Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard.
I’ll admit that my initial curiosity about Brad [...]

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It seemed as if Stressball had been long forgotten in the sludge metal canon, but some late night Googling has revealed otherwise.

The band has one of those names that can easily be buried in non-relevant search results.  However, I was able to find a bit of coverage at the VonFrostBlog, and (of course) there are [...]

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This EP was released in Detroit around 1997.  I don’t even have the original disc anymore – just this CD-R burn from many years ago.  The cover art was basically a photo of a turntable platter with a bunch of scattered spraypaint caps and other B-Boy paraphenelia – very old school.   It was a decidedly [...]

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I couldn’t help being a Veldt fan from the very start – early press described  the Chavis brothers driving a jeep under rural North Carolina skies, their in-dash mixtape jubilantly positioning Cocteau Twins next to Public Enemy.  It was the delirious  “pre-grunge” era, and hip hop beats & shoegaze seemed a brilliant fusion of audio [...]

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I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of positive response to my recent post praising the Bloomsday full-length CD ‘The Day The Colors Died‘.  The band apparently not only has a lasting legacy of enthusiastic fans – but they’ve managed the feat with only two releases.
Their second and final recording is this self-titled five song [...]

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