Nekesa Mumbi Moody of MyWay News discusses the release of John Lennon’s final interview, for Rolling Stone Magazine, 30 years after its completion.
My brother and I had the good fortune to have an excellent college radio station near us when we were in our early twenties in the Inland Empire. KSPC 88.7 FM was known for playing some pretty far out music, but this particular track blew me out of the water. I had just begun hearing of the New Zealand indie rock scene, and was developing a taste for the primitive, lo-fi screechings of Roy Montgomery, but actually hearing this muffled, pounding, pulsating headache posing as music did more than pique my interest.
My brother gets credit for hearing it first, as he, too, is a man of good muscial taste, but once I wrapped my brain around the experience of being clobbered by Dadamah, I tore up Rhino Records in Claremont trying to find anything I could by the band. As luck would have it, they did have a copy of the ‘Nicotine/High Time‘ 7-inch which the host played, and I proceeded to play the poor thing until it damn near became transparent. Kranky Records saved any more wear-and-tear on my record player by having the good sense to release a full album by the band, ‘This Is Not A Dream,’ and I duly purchased that as well. Sadly, that was the end of the line for Dadamah, though they continued in various guises, and from what I hear, Roy Montgomery is still playing guitar (and quite beautifully now, I might add).
Mike McGonigal of Pitchfork Magazine pays heavy tribute to Boston’s shoegazer-eqsue legends, the inimitable Galaxie 500.