I have a cut-up style I use when I want to get into a certain way of thinking. I’ve arranged my room around this practice: Pacing between my bookshelves and wardrobe, music blasting out of a speaker somewhere in a low corner behind me, cats lounging in various windows. I use the clutter of books […]
Six Organs of Admittance
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Music Tonight: Tuesday, Oct. 8
Philadelphia’s Basic is a trio of musicians from semi-underground acts, the most famous of which is probably Chicago’s venerable post-rock band Tortoise. Tonight they are joined at the Miniplex with Eta Corina, a cool-ass duo composed of Ben Chasney of Six Organs of Admittance and Sake violinist Aolani. Don’t sleep on this mid-week heater; it […]
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Music Tonight: Monday, August 20
I first saw former Humbolshevik Ben Chasny’s fine act Six Organs of Admittance in NYC about 15 years ago when I was a nihilistic young shithead who didn’t care a gosh dang about a fellow traveler’s sounds and just wanted a night out from my unheated cement-nightmare overshared Brooklyn “loft.” And you know what? The […]