Monthly Archives: January 2007
425,660 rock bands.
Here’s what you can choose from on MySpace today. 425,660 rock bands and 400,268 rap acts. (And 192,402 “experiments.”) I think it’s fascinating how we, as a culture, have become so numb to the enormous numbers that the Internet nonchalantly … Continue reading
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Townes
All morning I’ve been listening to side two of Townes Van Zandt’s The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972). Just letting it run through, then getting up and dropping the needle back at the beginning. God it’s good. And thanks … Continue reading
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A failure to achieve, even in the modest task that was their charge
Park Slope Copy Center botched the print job for the “This Week” album, bungling it from the moment I dropped off the materials (before New Year’s; even then I could tell from the clerks’ glassy expressions that it wasn’t going … Continue reading
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Thank you, PopMatters
A cool review of Open Book (“one of the best bargains in rock history”) by Neal Hayes for PopMatters.
PREORDER “THIS WEEK”!
We’re printing up only 100 copies of the first, homemade edition of This Week, the best of the 2005 Thunderegg Song of the Week project. It’s a great album: 15 songs reduced from the original batch of 52. It was … Continue reading
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