Music: Shining: Blackjazz
Casey McKinney03.01.10
Could say this is like the bastard step child of Albert Ayler or Miles Davis Bitches Brew era and um… Opeth? but it’s something even weirder….
Book: The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Casey McKinney03.01.10
Zachary Mason’s first novel is a work of some detached genius, really a series of vignettes and imaginative retellings, reinterpretations, and…
Music: Japandroids: Post-Nothing
Casey McKinney02.27.10
Maybe some of you have been watching the Olympics? It’s in Vancouver? ends this weekend, right? If I were there (am still banned from Canada,…
A Boy Named Xiu
Mark Gluth02.27.10
Xiu Xiu’s first album, Knife Play, felt new, an eye opening reconfiguration of so many thoughts, desires, and influences that it sounded like music you’d heard before, the way a platypus looks like an otter. As their career has progressed over a multitude of releases and side projects they have both refined and expanded their sound and lyrical obsessions. Dear God I Hate Myself, their latest full length, is available now. Mark Gluth is the author of a new acclaimed novella, The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis, on Akashic’s Little House on The Bowery series.
Book: Sabrina Orah Mark
Casey McKinney02.20.10
Just saw another excellent reading at Whitespace, part of Ready Set Readings, organized by Ann Stephenson. Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of The…
Music: Davy Graham – Large As Life and Twice As Natural
Casey McKinney02.12.10
Okay for fans of Nick Drake, John Fahey and other alternately tuned guitar players – acoustic here, but it also applies to both the unplugged and…
Book: Eat When You Feel Sad
Casey McKinney02.03.10
Lately, been reading lots of things about things, like books, things about books, and as they say, afterwards the words have been taken out of my…
Art: Amy Granat: The Sheltering Sky
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley01.30.10
Amy Granat’s video exhibition creates an environment through projected images and the use of light. The show is inspired by (and takes…
Book: Madras Press
The Fanzine01.30.10
‘Madras Press publishes individually bound short stories and novella-length booklets and distributes the proceeds to a growing list of…
Book: Bruce Hainley – Foul Mouth
Casey McKinney01.30.10
Grouping a few recommends together. First, grabbed this book down in Miami at NADA that lay amidst 2nd Cannons Publications’ booth (we…
