Posts by calvert
Rough
Some of the best compilation sets to come my way in my frantic search for music were from the Rough Trade Shops label. DC has been crushed in recent days by wet snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Frozen snow is packed so hard on the ground now that you feel like you're walking across a frozen lake whenever you cross any turf that wasn't shoveled or salted by the good citizens of the city. Thi...
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Hoof in the Deerlights
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Deerhoof played DC Sunday night, and I went. If you knew me, you'd congratulate me. Along with my longstanding lack of self-owned music, I also had a problem going to shows. Part of my new policy to get a clue about music has been a resolution to attend more of these. And so Deerhoof was the first result of this new policy. Deerhoof was a good test. Anything but catchy, the band's performance migh
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Corner Turned
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I moved all along the coast with my initial armament of music, but when I got to Hanoi, I met up with W., a roustabout DJ in from Bangkok, who, at my request to “educate me†brought House and Funk into the mix. Al Green, Otis Reading, James Brown, DJ Shadow, and some sort of Chi Gong chant stuff entered the mix along with some of W.’s own 45-minute mixes, to which I paid due attention, an...
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The Neophyte
Sometime last fall, at the age of 31, I realized that my knowledge of music consisted of so many gaps as to be inexcusable. I'm not really sure how it happened; I just know that I've always claimed to like "other people's" music. I never bought or researched my own, and relied on friends to soundtrack our experiences together. This worked well because most of my friends know what they're doing ...
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