Visual Coercion

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Igor Listens to Gatekeeper’s Giza

Igor sez: “Listen to anything on Waxtrax! instead.” The other day I sat down before my computer, excited to write about the new Gatekeeper EP, Giza, released this past December 13 on UK’s Merok Records.  What happened instead was that I spent the next few days reveling in Front 242′s back catalog.  How could a [...]

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Summer Living/Summer Listening

I’ve been marinating in my own musky grown-up smells with the ample help of 90 degree 100% humidity weather all summer as I work on reacquiring my foreign language skills.  My bar slouch is turning into a desk slouch. That’s where I’ve been. I have managed to listen to just a very few things since [...]

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Get Haunted

Listen to this record.  You can read all the same reviews everywhere, so you don’t need me to rehash them.  As that is what it is, as the rich hues of meaning have already been drained from pale words careening from the walls of the surfeit of reviews out there that quote just-learned (and just [...]

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Trans Am at Knitting Factory BK, and What Might be an Image of the Same

I had the happy accident on Saturday to walk past the Knitting Factory and notice the placard advertising Trans Am were playing the following night.  So, Sunday night, to cap off an anodyne afternoon of walking across the Williamsburg Bridge to see The Runaways (it was good), I was back at the Knitting Factory filling [...]

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