What’s going on with hipster music? It’s an interesting question. About ten years ago I wanted to write a piece for my local weekly, Baltimore City Paper, on how the fuzzed-out, overdriven indie rock of my youth, largely springing from the AmRep and Touch & Go labels, had been replaced by another genre with the same …
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On the Last Rock Star
On a hot August evening, the sun was setting over Barricata beach out on the Po Delta. The beach bar was deserted and the lifeguard-cum-barman started up his tractor and began to pick up the sunbeds. To do his work he put on the sound system and turned it up, loud. Sandwiched between the usual …
Evergreen
Note, July 24, 2025: Footage of the band playing at Another Place Sandwich Shop in 1993 has surfaced on YouTube, with Sean as frontman and Scott Featherstone on drums. They play Coyote and Klark Kent from the album, as well as a bunch of other wild bluesy jams. Don’t miss the moment at around 19:30 …
Superheroes
To conclude all this southeastern Europe-focused posting on a positive note, I strongly urge all fans of energetic guitar-based music to check out Belgrade’s excellent Stuttgart Online and to buy their infectious album Radost Svakom Domaćinstvu. They definitely capture the dada-street art sound of late seventies Belgrade as immortalized on the anthology Paket Aranzman — …