If you’ve never heard of the music the recently deceased Jason Molina, his entire discography as Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Company and as himself is now streaming on Bandcamp.
(via totalvibration)
Cadence Weapon: A Poet Hones A Musical Personality
Listening to Cadence Weapon’s new album, “Hope in Dirt City” right now. Sounds great!
On Being Sick Inside the U.S. Health Care System
There’s not much that really infuriates me more than people not being able to get affordable health care. Perhaps it’s because I’m not wealthy and never will be, but I don’t understand this idea of not wanting to pay a little more in taxes (when you can afford to anyway) to help others.
With a decibel-intensive blow, doom metal band Pallbearer demonstrates just how majestic pain can sound. That emotional weight is carried throughout Pallbearer’s heavily anticipated debut album, Sorrow and Extinction, which is now streaming in its entirety at NPR Music.
25 Albums, Bands, Exhibits, And Other Such Ephemera That Meant Something To Me In 2011
I feel like I experienced music differently in 2011. When music journalism is your 9-to-5 job, there has to be balance: What is for work and what is for myself? I still haven’t quite figured that distinction out, yet (and it’s been 13 years since I started writing about music), but what the following 25 albums, songs, bands, exhibits and more abstract music experiences (movie scenes, light installations) have in common is that they all meant something to me. And that’s the undefinable thing about music, yeah? This isn’t a profound realization, especially since the primary qualifiable thing about music (meaning) is completely intangible. But on some level and, I suppose, with some age, the parts of music that give meaning to me are starting to come together.
Some of the blurbs after the jump have previously appeared at NPR Music for my best metal and best outer sound year-end lists, and some of the text has been snatched from other write-ups, but more than half of it is new and completely unedited.
