I won’t let my plum tree go without a fight.
Deep Cuts: Fruit Songs
Deep Cuts: Monkey Songs
A recent Atlantic Monthly article suggesting that humans domesticated themselves by killing off the violent males in their midst sparked a short story idea.
Deep Cuts: Songs For Your Well Worn Grooves
Grooves get things done.
From The Stacks: Mother Love Bone, “This Is Shangri-La” (Test Pressing)
If I had to whittle my test pressings down to a single one, this would be it.
Deep Cuts: Apple Songs
Google “apple.” If your results look like mine, you won’t see a reference to produce until page 5. The first 4 1/2 pages are all Apple, not apples.
On Diffuser: 20 Years Ago — Alice in Chains Release Their Self-Titled Third Album
Drug tragedies still happen in the music business, which kind of blows my mind.
Deep Cuts: October 1990
Some amazing music came out in 1990. By the time those little trick-or-treaters knocked on our apartment door that night, I’d spent what little expendable income I had on some brilliant records […]
Deep Cuts: Bone Songs (Not Bonin’ Songs)
Breaking my hand in a motorcycle accident wasn’t my first broken bones, nor were they my last. I’ve broken fingers, toes, nose, arms, ribs — even a hip. My left collar bone […]
On Diffuser: The Roots of Indie: Mother Love Bone
Mother Love Bone: If they’re the most important band in the history of grunge, why haven’t you heard of them? Well, let me tell you: http://diffuser.fm/the-roots-of-indie-mother-love-bone/
Deep Cuts: Wood Songs
So the old man was a master carpenter who never fulfilled his potential. Whether that’s better or worse than being a master of nothing is debatable, I suppose, though Americans are never […]
