While there's genius on MVOTC I think they peaked with Contra.

Sound yes, but also composition. If they don’t emulate what Rostam brought to the table (which, my guess is, is a lot) it’ll be a different band. Not necessarily a bad one, but from what I know from Rostam solo, there might be a whole lot of light playfulness, counter-intuitive originality missing/to be replaced.

Bring on any Joe Strummer stuff, dude was genious!

Yeah, I really dig Full Of Hell, too.

(Grand)Father Audience give us some money/Don’t mess around with our old albums!

‘The movie’s hero, one of these soldiers, would eventually end up held hostage in a “medieval castle in the Swiss Alps” by a villain named, of all things, “Baron Herman von Drax.”’

No, it wouldn’t have.

Can’t watch now, but it sounds like the fun RA, the same one who is capable of producing hilarious stage banter when in the mood, pretty consistently in the Cardinals’ heyday. Can’t help it, love the dude.

Should take those dudes on tour to finally connect the early aughts-NYC-indie and early-Nineties-ridiculous tough guy-NYHC scenes:

“...the latter three are like dumpster diving food while Terrace House feels a lot like fine dining steak.”

The idea that reality (or our perception of it) is staged is not really that young though, famous and darn old instances being Plato’s allegory of the cave (which is probably one of the ur-texts to this idea) and Calderon’s “Life is a dream”.

Got the Gutg ep on CD, too, bc that’s the only version I found on eBay back then. I’m still not really listening to AoL (wow, that’s really their acronym), should probably get on that.

Interestingly, there are two bands here I only really know from cover versions: there’s a massive version of Archers of Loaf’s ‘You and me’ by Boston’s American Nightmare (whose forced-upon name Give up the Ghost I like much better) and there is a whole ep of Alien Lanes songs by GENIOUS Avant-Metal duo Wreck and…

Come on and join the Koala-ition Legislating Against Wordplay, short K.L.A.W.!

But the level of self-reference and fan service (...) inspires about as much confidence as the occasionally textureless, amateurish expository [comment]ing.

Yep, also Egot has me asking if you could go on to win prizes to form ‘istical’...

Williams’ “Stoner”, which, incidentally, more or less fell into my hands on Friday 4/20 while sorting books.

Yiddish Policemen’s Union is also really good if you want to try another Chabon.

Not faulting AVC, just saying that there’s a new SLEEP album out, which, even if you’re not a fan, is some piece of news, to put it mildly. So, instead of talking about the releases on offer here, I chose to mention (or all caps yell about) the massive elephant in the room.

THERE IS A NEW SLEEP ALBUM TO BE LISTENED TO RIGHT NOW! IT’S CALLED THE SCIENCES! YOU CAN LISTEN TO IT AND PROBABLY ORDER A 500 GRAM-TRIPLE VINYL VERSION OF IT RIGHT NOW!