William’s 45th birthday party. Also Kurt Bielema’s 43rd. And Jessy’s (do the math). Straight from the Mackie mixer, a mix of old 45s, bad and worse, from an ad-hoc, Mad-Maxy, duct-taped-together assemblage of iffy turntables. Scratches, pops, warts and inexplicable variations in speed and all. All followed by a not-judiciously-enough edited collage of karaoke attempts.
Join the party, edited down to three exhausting hours, here.
We’re no longer hosting Rock Geek F.M. Saturdays on WEFT. Once again, we’re looking for a new time slot, or venue, but will continue to produce Rock Geek material as long as we can still find the energy to fight about whether Revolver or Sgt. Pepper is the better album. Which is how we met. I won’t tell you who’s on which side, but until we get this resolved, were destined to remain together.
Here are two fliers for our suspended show to remember us by, expressing both our enthusiasm and our alienation:
All this reggae-styled Italian western needs is a movie.
A show dedicated to movie soundtrack music that never appeared in movies.
We celebrate the fact that soundtrack music, especially Italian horror and western soundtracks, has become a musical genre detached from film.
A dense, lush, funky, orchestral, and creepy mix.
Turn on the projector of your mind and listen here.
This one is actually a real movie, not a fake soundtrack. I didn’t play it. But it looks fake.
For this show, Ethan Madarieta and William Gillespie took turns spinning songs chosen in response to the song the other one just played, creating a spontaneous lattice of segues, transitions, connections, arguments, and intermusical references.
Listen, download, tune in, and UNDERSTAND. Here’s the playlist.
As a result of a Facebook meme, I have assembled a highly personal list of 15 albums that marked decisive turning points in my taste of rock, my understanding of how I could reach it and it me, and who I was in its presence. This list goes from age 8 to roughly 40.
15 albums in order of occurrence
Musical meta-radio. Well, there’s a lot of songs about radio, most of them pretty damn cheerful. Are we postmodern yet? Download this fun if effortless mix.
Serious about fun music.
Songs for, about, and sung by kids. Yes! Especially rock songs with children vocalists or choirs. And happy birthday to Abbey Road.
