I remain powerless when faced with obscure vinyl, curiosity and a need-to-have-it impulse flaring up in my amygdala and forcing one hand to reach for the record and the other my wallet. Which is precisely how I found myself spending something like $80 on this album the other day over at one of my newest […]
Month: June 2025
Pan Thorarensen – “Ljóstillífun” (2025)
We sat in a pillow-filled cubby hole cut into the wall in a Reykjavik basement. The venue was called Jacobsen Downstairs, and it was an October Friday night, the third evening of Iceland Airwaves 2009. I was trying to understand what was happening in front of me, a man sitting at a table twisting some […]
Paul Vanase – “In The World Of Baby Bones” (1978)
If you’re like me (and hopefully for your sake, you are not) much of your record shopping involves finding covers that look interesting and only then looking into the artist. I never know what is going to catch my eye. Certainly some genres and time periods have their own “look”, like 80s metal and hip […]
Galleons Lap – “Themes And Variations – A Counter Industrial Revolution” (1991)
Recently Seattle lost a member of its music scene with the passing of Kevin Diers, who hosted the Loud & Local and Metal Shop radio shows on KISW, at the all-too-young age of 39. Record store Apollo Exos stepped up to help the family by selling off Kevin’s record collection, which as you can imagine […]