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An interview I did with Michael Richardson of Benton Falls back in 2001.

Who are you? Trying to learn more about the Minneapolis band Self-Evident.

Why is it

that I can email Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye directly and do interviews with them, but when I’m interested in emailing lesser known artists for an interview I have to go through a press person or public relations? Fuck that.

of Secretly Canadian, Jagjaguwar, and Dead Oceans.

Interview with Jacob Bannon of Converge talking about art and music and inspiration.

25 Albums, Bands, Exhibits, And Other Such Ephemera That Meant Something To Me In 2011

totalvibration:

 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.

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