Author: Selena Kane
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The Great Unwed
Hello hello, sticking my head in here a sec to talk about the new record CRUEL ENTERTAINMENT by the great Unwed Sailor. UNWED SAILOR is a band led by Johnathon Ford. We’ve known JF for a long time now & heard him play mad bass in a bunch of situations. He rode around Austin in…
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WIND MEDITATIONS
Usually when I think &/or write about Lou Reed, I talk about the oft-underlooked outsidery queerness of LULU [2011] or METAL MACHINE MUSIC [1975]; the nature & practice of songwriting; electric guitars & the meaning of tone; lyrics & their delivery (‘method singing’); or the way Rachel Humphreys is everywhere in Lou’s greatest work once…
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Stone Circles I Have Known
Sometimes “rock music” means literal rocks! I learned this fact from noted rock&roll lesbian Julian Cope (he/him so far as I am aware). His 90s albums included images of stone monuments in the UK & elsewhere, as well as his liner-note musings on the topic;—plus songs written, & sometimes recorded, at actual sacred sites (including…
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Songs Of The Wood Ape
I’m sure many people have written songs about bigfoot, aka sasquatch, aka the Great Northern Wood Ape. Offhand, however, I am aware only of three. ~ ‘Sasquatch’ by Ani DiFranco—from her excellent cd Binary (2017) which benefits, & this song especially, from a lush Tchad Blake mixing job—is a playful contemplation rather than a deep…
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Spell One
I’m a latecomer to magic—whatever we think “magic” is. Then again it’s been a primary focus of my life since childhood. Do I contradict myself? ~ The first “spell” (for lack of a better word?) that I consciously cast was in my mid-30s, around 2013, when my partner Z & I lived in Echo Park…
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AURGG: An Unironic Rocker Girl's Guide! 