Cooper Crain is busy, both as a member of noted Chicago drone band Cave and asone third of Bitchin Bajas, with a more explosive and fancy-free approach to theirexperimental jaunts through the airwaves. I think of track ‘Skylarking’ as a goodexample of the group’s sound, which unfolds like a synthetic barn swallow migratingthrough the transcontinental […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, Dec. 19
Here are some local treats to stuff your stockings with. First up, Moss Oak Commons,where it’s Freq Night again, with music from the crossroads of experimental electronicsounds, tap loops, treated guitar amp worship, holy synths and modulators, and lo-figrooves. Check out Hudson Glover, Luker, Samantha and Aermac 8 at 7 p.m. for asuggested $5-$10. When […]
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The Twilight Zone
“Although it might feel as though you are quite still at the moment, you’re actually moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into … the Twilight Zone.” Those words, grabbed from one of the variations of introductions into the old TV show from which this […]
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Music Tonight: Friday, May 2
Back at it again at the Miniplex tonight at 8 p.m., this time for an evening of experimental electronic music, with two touring acts that feature live drums and bespoke visuals. Portland’s Bl_ank is rolling through the West Coast with Spanish sound manipulator Alex Silva, who is now based in Baltimore. This should be a […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, Feb. 13
Weird electronic show alert. Hudson Glover, aka Huddy Glo, is an artist who I have reviewed here before, and one whose music is dense, danceable and complex, full of Bill Evans-styled block chords and minimal disco beats. A true auteur in an emerging world of old and new sounds. Chini has also graced these pages […]
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Hot, Hot, Heat
I’m firing this one off straight from the hip, so no frills, $20 words or political invective. It’s a dang scorcher today, even on the coast, and I don’t intend on spending the daylight looking at a screen, tapping away at a slowly heating keyboard, while the busy sounds of the landscaping industry hums and […]
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Land of Living People
Well, here we are, a few blinks away from the halfway mark of 2022. At least that’s how it seems to me, though I’ve been reckoning time very oddly this year. Things seem to be speeding up while staying in place. Nationally, there’s a sense of acceleration in stagnation, as if the engine is overheating […]