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Difficult Music: 01/01/2015 - 02/01/2015
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. A Difficult 2014—Part One. 2014 had some ups and downs, like any other year. The ups were good, the downs were utterly terrible. Losing my father-in-law this summer was the biggest blow. It was awful, but he went out in typical Charlie fashion, calling the shots right to the end, and we were all there for him. Overall, I had my health, my job, and my friends, I played plenty of music and took some nice trips. I got to see Yes. SLOUGH FEG— Digital Resistance. Hearing these guys...
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Difficult Music: 06/01/2014 - 07/01/2014
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Monday, June 02, 2014. A Difficult 2013—Part Four. Clutch— Earth Rocker. Sank out of sight for a while there in 2013, but returned with a mighty wallop. I bought the album when it came out—sounded great—and saw the sold-out show at the Commodore shortly afterwards—had a great time bro-ing down with all the Clutch fans. After that flurry of activity, Earth Rocker. Got put aside. When it was time to make this list, I put it on again and…whoa, this is a killer album! Bad Seed Ltd.). It seems that happened a...
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Difficult Music: Tago Mago: Permission to Dream, by Alan Warner (33 1/3 Books)
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. Tago Mago: Permission to Dream, by Alan Warner (33 1/3 Books). 1971) We learn about the author’s developing musical interests and record-buying habits as a teenager isolated in small-town Scotland during the late ’70s. Stepping away from his personal history, he also gets down to the nitty gritty of the double album itself; for example, detailing the tape edits on “Halleluwah” (side two of Tago Mago. To Can bassist Holger Czukay. With a compelling and mysterious cover, and fin...
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Difficult Music: A Difficult 2014—Part One
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. A Difficult 2014—Part One. 2014 had some ups and downs, like any other year. The ups were good, the downs were utterly terrible. Losing my father-in-law this summer was the biggest blow. It was awful, but he went out in typical Charlie fashion, calling the shots right to the end, and we were all there for him. Overall, I had my health, my job, and my friends, I played plenty of music and took some nice trips. I got to see Yes. SLOUGH FEG— Digital Resistance. Hearing these guys...
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Difficult Music: 05/01/2015 - 06/01/2015
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Achim Kaufmann/Jeff Younger/Dylan Van Der Schyff March 31 at Merge. The Unsupervised, April 1 at The Emerald. Leading into the new songs that they plan to record and release in 2016. The only bummer was the volume from the punk show going on next door, which was bleeding into the Emerald. While I enjoy "TV Party" as much as the next guy, it didn't mix well with the gig I was trying to listen to. Magma, April 2 at The Venue. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Difficult Music: 07/01/2014 - 08/01/2014
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Vancouver International Jazz Festival, June 20–July 1. A friend of mine, a man of letters and excellent taste, has a saying: all the best porn is at the library. Along similar lines, I guess, is something that I myself have discovered: all the best prog is at the Jazz Fest. Most of it is available for free too, just like those volumes of literary smut at the library. LP from their drummer, who kindly threw in a promo CD version so I’d had a digital copy as well. They were the idea...
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Difficult Music: 09/01/2014 - 10/01/2014
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014. A Difficult 2013—Part Five. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats—. Discovering the musty, macabre thrill-show of Blood Lust. Late in 2012 certainly got me primed for the arrival of Uncle Acid’s next collection of debauchery. Mind Control. Is less ramshackle than Blood Lust. 8212;it sounds as though everyone had learned the material before turning up at the studio, which lends certain songs (“Poison Apple”, “Mind Crawler”) the kind of punch that Blood Lust. Steven Wilson— The Ra...
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Difficult Music: March into April
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Achim Kaufmann/Jeff Younger/Dylan Van Der Schyff March 31 at Merge. The Unsupervised, April 1 at The Emerald. Leading into the new songs that they plan to record and release in 2016. The only bummer was the volume from the punk show going on next door, which was bleeding into the Emerald. While I enjoy "TV Party" as much as the next guy, it didn't mix well with the gig I was trying to listen to. Magma, April 2 at The Venue. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Formula Vee at bandcamp.
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Difficult Music: 02/01/2014 - 03/01/2014
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Saturday, February 22, 2014. A Difficult 2013—Introduction. Old-man rant about the return of vinyl deleted]. Favourite Concerts of 2013. 1 Nick Cave—April 6, Vogue Theatre / Yob—April 6, Interurban Gallery. 2 Neurosis—January 5, Showbox (Seattle). 3 Scott Kelly—March 9, Railway Club. 4 Rush—July 26, Rogers Arena. 5 Lee Ranaldo and the Dust—December 7, Biltmore. 6 Anathema and Alcest—September 28, Rickshaw Theatre. 7 Sub Rosa and Eight Bells—April 20, Astoria. 8 Red Fang—November 10, Rickshaw Theatre.
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Difficult Music: 11/01/2014 - 12/01/2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. Jeff Younger's Devil Loops Volume 2 CD Release, June 18, 2014 at the Orpheum Annex. Jeff Younger continues to push his Devil Loops project into new territories, and this event was the furthest he’s pushed it yet. In my reviews. Of his previous CDs. That multi-disciplinary potential was fully and wonderfully realized at the Devil Loops volume 2. Links to this post. Saturday, November 22, 2014. Yob—Clearing the Path to Ascend (Neurot). Damn modern bands and their lack of self-edi...
