The glass bottom boat of the cultural press
This week, Christopher Long receives a FREE pre-loved vinyl copy of Joe’s Garage Acts II & III, the 1979 double-record masterpiece from Frank Zappa. And he soon relearns the correlation between music, heartbreak, and “unpronounceable diseases.”
This week Christopher Long grabs a bag of bargain vinyl from a flea market in Mount Dora, Florida — including You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, the classic 1979 LP from Ian Hunter.
Albert Ayler’s Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto (Smog Veil). Review by James Mann.
After thirty years, music critic Gary Giddins is still listening, still watching, and still… writing a multi-volume biography of your grandma’s favorite crooner, Bing Crosby? Ink 19 sat down with Giddins to talk about the shape of jazz to come.
Matthew Moyer is glad that Holly George-Warren and the other compilers of this coffeetable-riffic collection of punk photos fetishize image as much as he does.
Like a smarter and hipper Forrest Gump, Joe Boyd repeatedly turned up at the right place at the right time in the rapidly changing music world of the 1960’s. From ferrying blues and jazz players around Europe, to discovering Pink Floyd, Boyd was there and he remembers what happened!
James Mann wonders what Americans have to be thankful for while analyzing William S. Burroughs’ “A Thanksgiving Prayer.”
With the thirty-fifth anniversary of debut album Whirlpool, UK shoegaze outfit Chapterhouse is back together again and touring the US as part of Slide Away Music Festival.
The Englert theater hosted Little Feat as they embark on their Last Farewell Tour.
Meiko Kaji’s katana is sharp and looking for revenge in Wandering Ginza Butterfly and its sequel, She Cat Gambler, a stylish pair of early ’70s action films.
