Alexander Herzen was once about as popular as Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, yet he drifted away into obscurity. Author Aileen M. Kelly attempts to rectify this with a biography of this muted Russian giant.
Read more about the book here, courtesy of André van Loon, writing for The Berlin Review of Books.
Post-punk will never go away if bands like Ireland’s Girl Band have anything to say about it.
Though the New Zealand blog documenting psych-pop may be slowing down, its discoveries are preserved in a series of essential collections.
via The Active Listener’s Compilations Showcase Psych From Around the World — Bandcamp Daily
This year will be anything but boring. Hüsker Dü helps to usher in 2017!
Stefan Knappe is a man who wears many hats. He runs Drone Records, which releases some of the best in dark ambient and experimental music, and serves as both a mailorder and distributor of music not directly found on his label as well.
The talent we wish to concentrate on is as a composer with his project TROUM. In this release from 2015, Knappe unleashes a cascade of some of the darkest experimental music I’ve heard in some time. It is dark, however, in a way that is not vulgar or cheap, as too so-called ‘noise’ bands are wont to be. You won’t hear any children with vile fetishes for rapists or serial killers who turn on their vacuum cleaners and try to sell this as ‘music’. No, in this case, Knappe actually goes through the process of crafting something worthy of being a soundtrack to a very intense film. There is a lot of sub-bass throbbing and pulsating, but all of it done with the precision of a master surgeon who knows how to weild his scalpel. TROUM is always releasing music of note, or collaborating with others to do the same.
If you have a Bandcamp account, follow his work. You will find no disappointments there.
From John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs (1678). ‘Disguised.’ ‘To have a piece of bread and cheese in your head.’ ‘He’s drunk more than he has bled.’ (ouch) ‘Been in the sun.’ ‘Had a jag.’ ‘Had a load.’ ‘To have got a dish.’ ‘To have had a cup too much.’ ‘To be one and […]
via Just a quick list of 17th century euphemisms for being drunk… — The Social Historian
vivienxo is a Finnish musician who does ‘dreampop’. I have no idea what the genre really is, but there’s a lovely, muffled sound to it that reminds me of old 80s dreampop that I’m familiar with, such as bands like Dream Academy. Definitely worth investigating further.
Dead Vibrations. Stockholm’s Södermalm, often shortened to “Söder,” which is Swedish for “south,” is a neighborhood that was home to famous Swedes (Greta Garbo spent her childhood there), and famous fictional Swedes (Mikael Blomkvist, the journalist searching for sinister answers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). But it’s also prime real estate for up-and-coming […]
via Dead Vibrations Explore the Darker Side of Swedish Shoegaze — Bandcamp Daily
On December 9, Kirk Douglas becomes a centenarian. The UCLA Film & Television Archive will be doing a retrospective of his work this year.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times writes on the event here.
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