Thad McKrakenWhereas Seattle still seems to be lagging well behind places like the Bay Area and Portland as far as potent psych rock goes, it has long been a haven for underground knob twiddlers of the more adventurous variety. Years back, there was a regular...
"If we really open our eyes, we’ll notice poverty cycles, human trafficking, boredom, anger, forgotten humans... etc.... all around us. I’m not saying that’s all there is to life, and that’s why I usually contrast the dark side with something light...
"Charting the development of themes in linear time... is, in fact, a very idiosyncratic and Western way of looking at music. But if you take a longer, wider look at the history of humans making music, you find strong traditions all over the world of...
New technology is odd as, in a way, it points out how much making decent art really has to do with choices more than anything else. I’ve always been one to oft opine that the second you pick up a guitar and write a song, even if you have no...
Theoretically, if beings existing outside of three-dimensional timespace looked down upon the lower dimensions they’d created, micro-entities such as humans might appear to them as little more than a blur — misunderstood pulses of...
Only in a place like Bloomington, Indiana could the subversive mindfuck that is Racebannon continue to churn out their perfectly demented blend of art metal freakitude. It just goes to show how every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Take a...
It’s been my contention for the last five years or so that loop pedals are the coolest musical invention of the modern era, almost cooler than say, wah pedals or even the vaunted digital delay effect. How cool are loop pedals? Well, they can...
The relationship between ritualistic drumming and consciousness alteration is an age old tradition stemming largely from the overlooked shamanic cultures of antiquity. It should go without saying that viewing the supposed “triumph” of...