http://www.shortwaverockin.com Where You Go When You Don't Want To Go Home Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:53:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Monotonix "Never Died Before" and "Lazy Boy"  7-inch Recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, Chicago 2010 Drag City Because I'm an idiot, I listened to this three times on 33 1/3 RPM until I realized it was not supposed to be this slow. I thought, goddammit, Steve Albini has slowed these Israelis down. ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=779 I don't usually let myself get upset about these things- people dying that I don't know personally. But I always felt like Starchild was a buddy of mine, more than anyone in P Funk and maybe more than anyone in music. Very sad. Alright. Back to drinking and America Eats its Young... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=776 "Much Madness is Divinest Sense" - Emily Dickinson "Emily Dickinson is more bad ass than your shitty uniform punk band" - Adam W Kreamy 'Lectric Santa - Operation Spacetime Cynderblock: "Four Riddles of the Spheres" Starcleaner Records (2009) Listening to Operation Spacetime Cynderblock, I get the same feeling as when I listen ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=765 Sometimes while I'm listening to Boris, I wonder if I cut them more slack than I do American metal bands. I think I do. I let them get away with a lot more. I shouldn't. So as of now, I'm going to get past any ethnocentricisisms and review Japanese Heavy ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=758 The last time I wrote about Double Dagger, in my ignorance and failing attempts at being clever, I completely dismissed a major part of the band: no guitars. How this slipped my mind, I am not sure. The bass sounds like a damn guitar sometimes. The dude plays bass chords ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=754 I see it coming, like a bus around a corner in the rain. I know it's for me, it's got my number on it: Bx 2027. The first is the borough, the second, the year. Already the cool-poor and dirty have left Manhattan for Brooklyn- at least 10 years now. ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=740 I think the most uncharacteristic album cover of all time. One of the best. http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=735 Part I: THE OMEN People hand me scraps of paper. Sometimes napkins. I'd say about 1/4 of the slobs that walk into the library for information, which is about 1/4 of the total visiting population, don't say anything at first, they hand me their crumpled little piece of paper and wait. On ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=726 So at the end of my fIREHOSE Project, Part III, I said I would write a review of Flyin' the Flannel in haiku. It was a joke because this fIREHOSE thing has taken on a new life of it's own and at the time it seemed like the only logical ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=719 "Why would I want to write for SPIN? I can't even write out the band name Fucked Up let alone write that Fucked Up's last record fucking sucked ass." -Me (Today) So the fine people over at Starcleaner Records sent me a bunch of their back catalog to check out and possibly ... http://www.shortwaverockin.com/?p=705