[Portland, OR]
by Gabe Vodicka
“Why do you need to be told what that means?”
by Benjamin Pearson
“Do you guys need a bassist?”
by D-BO
Rainbow Warriors
by TMT Cerberus
Pendarvis Farm, Happy Valley, OR
“Hip-hop and R&B have penetrated Japanese society so thoroughly they’ve become important means of self-identification even for their marginal elements.”
by David Morris
Cuszen Frotard
Hip-Hop’s Odd Future
by Ajitpaul Mangat
[Lebreton Flats; Ottawa, ON Canada]
by munroe
“Deathspell Omega is one of my favorite bands, and I know almost nothing about them.”
by Kilgore Herring
“There’s so much implied in all of this silence and quiet music. Sometimes it’s good to have overt statements. You can internalize them later.”
by Matthew Horne
Palatial Comb-over
Revisiting the first half of an already amazing year of music
by TMT Staff
[Continuum Books; 2011]
by Richard Elliott
“There is a reverence with much of The Caretaker work, where the feeling created is one of loss for something you are not sure about.”
by Joe Davenport
“Zen poems in the form of a gag strip.”
“We just don’t think that you need to take yourself too seriously in order to make good work.”
by Jeff Milo
“If we look at a rough storyline that we did back then, it’s nothing like what the film turned out to be.”
by Susanna Locascio
Non-Fiction. 672 pages. Faber and Faber. By Rob Young.
by Ian Latta
Five sets from the experimental music fest’s 27th edition
by Elliott Sharp