Thursday, September 24, 2020

Demo Joe #2: Cringe vs. Kramer

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Today, Demo Joe turns his attention to John Salvo and his band of noise-mongers Cringe. For those unfamiliar with the name John Salvo, he w...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Demo Joe: Robert Roth and Jim Carroll

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I recently started contributing to a Facebook community page called the Northwest Demo Tape Society in which contributors unearth and spotli...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Golden Smog: Summer with the Radar Bros.

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Summer is once again upon us, and I can’t think of a better soundtrack for these lazy, hazy, sun-burned days than the music of Southern Cali...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

From the Archives: What Deaner Was Talkin' About — A Conversation with Ween's Dean Ween

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Photo credit: Danny Clinch This one goes back a few years, 21 in fact. In 1999, I interviewed guitarist Mickey Melchiondo, better known...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

David Berman, Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, 1967-2019

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"Like a message broadcast on an overpass, all my favorite singers couldn't sing. All my favorite singers couldn't sing." G...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Super-misogynistic-expialidocious!

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Herb Jeffries (name misspelled on the cover), Devil Is a Woman (Golden Tone, 1957) No, I'm pretty certain the so-called devil woma...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

The Devil and Robert Johnson

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Sic him, hellhound! Robert Johnson reincarnated. I wonder if this asshole made a deal with the devil, too. Judging from his astonishing...