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Who is Müller? No, seriously – who is this acoustic guitar strumming character whose Beck-meets-Syd Barrett CD-R effort surfaces in a Salvation Army thrift store, without a trace of online history or viable evidence confirming its history and origins? The jewel case has a primitive color laser printer generated insert crediting S.Qreini, Bianca, SCX, Gikel, […]
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This mysterious disc turned up at the Salvation Army thrift store years ago in Livonia, MI. You’d be correct if you think I was initially suspecting it was Australian jazz-metal band Alarum upon spying the jewel case spine…but this independently released CD is a different beast altogether. It’s sort of a “local-old-timers-with-long-hair-and-hippie-vibe-playing-originals-in-town-bar” recording, but there’s […]
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It’s been a rough year. James killed himself, leaving a void that cannot be replaced by anyone else. We had planned a huge vision of musical work together, from the late ’90s tone of rockin’ Sum of Wizdum stuff in the old days…to recent ideas (conjured by me, mostly for his sake) known as the […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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