A chicken in a gas mask, a pigeon in a sandwich, a purple skinned model sitting on a cliff with a guy in a diving suit behind her….you’ve probably never heard of album cover photographer/designer Gene Brownell, but for a time in the 1960s and 1970s, his otherworldly work made the neighborhood record store a…
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Behind Marconi Union’s “Weightless” Video
Somehow I missed it the first time around in 2014, but a resurrected news story on “the most relaxing song ever” has been making the rounds again recently, the story appearing everywhere from Teen Vogue to Business Insider. The 8-minute song is by the band Marconi Union and was composed with the assistance of the…
Time Stands Still For No Rush Fan
I had the opportunity, last night, to see the new Rush documentary Time Stand Still. It was playing in “select theaters” around North America for one night only, and – being as I live near Rush’s hometown of Toronto – it was in quite a few not too far from me. So, along with a…
Tobogganing On Topographic Oceans
It was a warm autumn afternoon that I stumbled into the rambling topography of a murky ocean replete with Mayan pyramids, fish swimming in mid-air, and a four part suite about…um, something to do with Hinduism. I was still in my teens, a new student at the University of Florida, and it was the first…
Cabinet of Obscurities: Vova Nova
An occasional feature showcasing music by little-known artists who (generally) only put out one or two albums. “A balmy Saturday night. Lights melt by the car windows as we drive through the dusk. We get a table and a couple of beers. The band soon arrives and tunes their instruments. Behind the stage is a large…
Percussive Pineapples and Neglected Peaches
“Summer is rotting in a haze like a neglected peach”, wrote the author Neil Gaiman in the introduction to a Tori Amos tour book. And the end of summer is like that. Plants are tired, browning, drying up. Their last gasps of energy going towards production of fruit and seeds. The birds and bees are…
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