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Oganesson Remixes

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Links: February 2019
Hello, dear reader!
February is gone, but its links remain.
I owe you a belated “Happy new year!” since I failed to get this newsletter out the door the past two months. If you’re desperate to see the links that never made it to your inbox during those months, you can find December and January (along with every other edition) on my site.
In February, I finally launched Tinnitus Tracker, a live music diary I’ve… See more →
Making Music in 2019
My creative goal for the year
Earlier this month I launched Tinnitus Tracker, my last big personal creative project left over from 2018. That frees me up to get down to business on my main creative goal for 2019: making music.
I’m a lifelong music fanatic and always wanted to be able to call myself a musician, but I didn’t get around to really making an effort until about ten years ago, when I started taking guitar lessons. I had to… See more →
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The Catastrophist
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Thrill Jockey 20th Anniversary
For a 6:30 p.m. show with five bands on the bill and no food for sale, you might want to reconsider your “NO RE-ENTRY” policy.
Thrill Jockey anniversary show last night was the most eclectic I’ve seen in ages. I loved Future Islands fans being made to endure Liturgy.
While I’m still probably not going to be a fan, holy crap does that Future Islands singer guy own the stage.

Beacons of Ancestorship

The Lounge Ax Defense & Relocation Compact Disc
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A Lazarus Taxon

The Brave and the Bold
Daniel Lanois
A Musical Baton
A musical baton has been passed to me by Stan and Ethan. Who am I to refuse them?
Total Volume of Music Files on My Computer
- 74.79 Gb
The Last CD I Bought Was
- Big Bear: Big Bear
Throat-shredding shrieks and mathy metal guitar chugging that somehow owes more to Slint than the Dillinger Escape Plan. Amidst all the starts and stops and time changes, it still manages to swing. Refreshing stuff.
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Spaceboy Music got the new Tortoise album, It’s All Around You, nearly two weeks ahead of its release date, so I did too. I like it, and I expect to like it more as I listen to it more, but there are no great departures from the oft-imitated Tortoise sound to report, and nothing noteworthy about this newest assemblage of ambling, polyrhythmic post-rock that wasn’t already made noteworthy on one of the band’s previous outings.… See more →