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Swinging Modern Sounds #14: Nine Thousand Words On The Size Queens

The following is a record review in dialogue form conducted between this columnist and Michael Snediker (with whom I corresponded about Antony and the Johnsons a couple months back), the…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #13: On Loops

These lines depend on your having a working knowledge of the New York City suburbs.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #12: Metal Machine

I'm having a Metal Machine Music moment.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #11: The Book of Love

I was an outcast in high school.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #10: The Interactive Playlist

The original idea for this blog was to find my way to things that were unreleased, self-released, and unsigned, and in this installment I’m going to take my mission seriously…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #9: The Means of Production

Makers and consumers of music, there is no other conclusion but that the future of the medium lies in your hands.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #8: Black Napkins

Frank Zappa was a gateway drug for me.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #7: On Repetition

The intractable problem of the moment in the arts—in music, in books, in movies, in almost every area of contemporary culture—is the problem of inattention.

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Swinging Modern Sounds #6: The Transcendental Signifier

Note: to the readers of this intermittent bulletin, I recognize in what follows that I am violating the compact I made a couple of months ago, to cover only unsigned,…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #5: Heliotropism

I love the city of Tucson, Arizona, because I like places that have run out of luck, and I think running out of luck makes for good music. Running out…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #4: On Being Unprofessional

I was going to start this post by talking about Bruce Springsteen. I was going to start by saying that there was a certain moment in the output of Bruce…

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Swinging Modern Sounds #3: Time Has Done This To Me

I think it was in 1986 or thereabouts that my friend Jim Lewis gave me a bootlegged cassette of a live radio appearance by Peter Holsapple and Syd Straw (with,…

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