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Adam Grimord-Isham

@Grimisham

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Listen to my weekly radio show on @xrayfm

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Adam Grimord-Isham

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2 years

Guy in Wilco shirt shows me his ID to buy beer. There’s no need my dude.

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The boomerification of Gen X reaches final form.

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Condé Nast with the cross marketing.

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Alongside Pitchfork we used to have Skyscraper, Punk Planet, Tiny Mix Tapes, Blastitude, Chunklet, Arthur, Magnet, Dusted, the Aquarius Records newsletter, Fake Jazz, Heartattack, and dozens of blogs. Loved some, hated some, but it was all a living and thriving ecosystem.

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Imagine keeping up this tiresome behavior for literal decades.

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Give the people what they want: Nirvana with Rome.

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I didn’t realize people were talking about a contemporary book when dunking on this book as the cover (and subject matter) looks like something seen moldering in a bookstore thirty years ago.

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$25 vinyl added to Bandcamp cart. $25 shipping in the United States added to checkout price. Vinyl removed from cart.

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@EmmaTolkin I feel like everyone is going to vote for seventies flics here but it’s the eighties when the true coke sweat era set in.

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@north0fnorth Not drowning or freezing to death would be what I would be worried about getting away with. Also how did Michigan get away with claiming Isle Royale?

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Favorite album covers: Ornette Coleman - Science Fiction (1972).

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Is there any eerie, nocturnal, minimalist postpunk like Young Marble Giants’s Colossal Youth and Tuxedomoon’s Half-Mute that I somehow missed?

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Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages

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Remember when a bunch of comps came out of awesome sixties and seventies psychedelic funk/rock from Iran, Nigeria, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and other places and every one of them had in the liner notes how a violent coup ended all of this music.

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Favorite album covers : Glenn Branca - Ascension (1981).

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How do we lose voices that have sustained us for so long?

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Here’s an accidental Yo La Tengo album cover I took on the after dinner walk.

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Does Jim O’Rourke have one cardigan or a closet full of identical ones?

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@FranziaMom I do remember when Weeknd posted “Let’s Go!”, and then Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Deerhoof.

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serious question: if the grateful dead is not the greatest band of all time from the united states then who is?

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Boredoms - Seadrum/House of Sun Was this the last original thing we got from them? Was it a conclusion to a trilogy or an extra session? All I definitely know for sure is they were early Alice Coltrane adopters.

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This dumb “joke”(actually a literal observation of an event at my work) that I wrote in ten seconds on my break.

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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Ghost The spectral psych folk band returns from the mysterious mists of the past thanks to Drag City.

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Liars - Drum’s not Dead Still trying to sus out the places this band went with their first three albums.

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If Pitchfork died in the early 00’s I would have absolutely been popping the cork as they were the snarkiest and shittiest voice in an absolute ocean of great music press. But now it’s just one more symptom of the Enshittification of everything.

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Favorite album covers: The Raincoats(1979).

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Charles Mingus is the Akira Kurosawa of jazz. I think I know their main works but every couple of years get my mind blown by something I’ve never seen/heard.

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@ohboybeccaslack That’s why I put my wife’s name before mine, so much cooler! Though hyphenation is annoying and now there’s two names no one can spell.

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It’s funny now realizing that Sonic Youth, who I associated with nineties youth culture, were mostly the same age as the ‘77 punks, who I definitely did not.

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Trying to remember where I first heard the name Steve Albini? Pixies? Nirvana? PJ Harvey? Jesus Lizard? Somewhere in that order. Records that sounded truly unhinged. Legend.

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In a world filthy with unread books, unheard music, and art never seen what is the purpose of AI art? Just to add more noise to the signal?

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Robert Fripp - Exposure Skinny tie era Fripp. A sprawling album including Frippertronics, heavy prog, and new wave. And other oddities like the definitive version of a Peter Gabriel song?

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Low - Secret Name In memorium Mimi Parker…I barely have words…

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Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda Another for Horsegirl and Pharoah Sanders. And an album I can hear endlessly.

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One of my favorite parts of No New York is the band photos on the back.

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A long deserved comeuppance is occurring.

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Immaculately researched and very readable book about that “Holy Ghost” of American music Albert Ayler. A deeply sad tale as the fate of the Ayler brothers is grim but it helps illuminate a beautiful and frustrating body of work.

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Popol Vuh - Aguirre Heavenly music for a hellish film.

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Breeder’s Pod was the first album I bought that earned a compliment from a cool Ann Arbor record store clerk, a coveted moment in my music nerdom.

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I’ll definitely never succeed in business as I just don’t understand the corporate urge to gut/zombify legacy names like National Geographic, Jazz Times, HBO, AV Club/The Onion, Twitter, and now Pitchfork. I don’t really even see where it makes business sense.

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Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer Do you think the record company is going to take this back? My constant worry.

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Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid For some reason this is the first I wanted to hear. Maybe because I think him and Sonny Sharrock work so well together and wished they’d done more.

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What’s everyone’s favorite 00’s west coast hypnotic underground drone duo/collective? Barn Owl, Badgerlore, Beneath the Lake, Common Eider, King Eider, Golden Retriever, Growing, Earth, Thuja, Yellow Swans, and or?

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It’s time for Shaggs mania!

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Finally watched this. Actually slightly more depressing than I thought. Though I love her work even more afterwards.

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The Third Eye Foundation - Semtex Matt Elliott broke away from Flying Saucer Attack to realize Kevin Shields’s imagined combining of shoegaze guitar fuzz, drift and distant vocals with jungle beats, but that only hints at what his cosmically bleak vision accomplished here.

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Favorite album covers: Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (1969).

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Dadamah - This is not a Dream Kranky 02, an obscure New Zealand band featuring Roy Montgomery that kinda sounds like Patti Smith getting super tranced out with Cale era Velvet Underground and Faust. A fabulous and sadly constantly hard to find album.

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Interstellar Space by John Coltrane is Christmas music. It has jingle bells.

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Pharoah Sanders - Karma Peak free jazz yodel.

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What’s everyone’s favorite music for when the veil is thin between the worlds?

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John Fahey - Proofs & Refutations For fans of weird noisy late Fahey when he lived in cheap hotels and ate from gas stations, here’s something right up your alley.

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Favorite album covers: John Zorn - Naked City(1990).

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Thinking about the Chicago label Atavistic who’s cheap cds introduced me to so much no wave and free jazz(sometimes with dodgy sound) and put out Scissor Girls and related projects. Great forgotten labels.

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Jessamine In grunge hungover Seattle of course a band inspired by Can, Neu, Silver Apples, Suicide, electric Miles, BBC Radiophonic, and Talk Talk was an odd one out, but that means their albums have dated better than others as people caught up to their influences.

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Ever get the feeling that you’ve been cheated?

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Who the fuck would attempt to burn down Mississippi Records? That place has brought so much joy to the world. Keep watching for recovery efforts.

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Favorite album covers: Fripp and Eno - (No Pussyfooting)(1973).

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The Groundhogs - Split Concept album about mental illness from a English blues rock trio sounded dodgy on paper, but with wiry garage rock attack, proto punk bleakness, and GOAT riff after riff this album destroys.

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Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of the Titanic Superior Viaduct seems to be bringing the Obscure Records series back in print which is very cool.

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That’s gonna be a no from me dawg!

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From 2015 until the pandemic shut it down PDX had an explosion of bristling and original postpunk bands. This four album run by Mope Grooves matched peers like Lithics and Collate and earned furtive comparisons to Eno, Raincoats, and Faust in a desperate attempt to capture…

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Favorite album covers: Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun(2000).

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Favorite album covers: Melvins - Houdini (1993).

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Deerhoof remains one of the greatest bands of my generation:

The Bandcamp Guide to Deerhoof

It's time to get into Deerhoof, with a little help from drummer Greg Saunier.

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Two of my favorite albums with two of the most fucked up covers have been reissued on vinyl FYI!

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Favorite album covers: Daniel Johnston - various tapes from the eighties.

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Swirlies - Blonder Tongue English shoegaze through the kaleidoscope of noisy American basement diy.

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Milford Graves - Bäbi Lots of silly things get reissued every year, but sometimes things arrive that feel more like a correction of the universe than a mere reissue.

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I commonly reference a list on the old Flying Luttenbachers website that I used as a guide for digging through bins, well he reposted it in the no wave group: A list of records recommended by Weasel Walter:

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I do hope the youths keep discovering Beefheart and Can and making wild avant-garde rock to amuse me in my dotage.

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Favorite album covers: Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures(1966).

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I need a list of everything people have claimed was a CIA plant on Twitter. Modern Art, the Iowa writers workshop, the Grateful Dead, and what else?

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Layla Gibbon has compiled an amazing zine called 122 Hours of Fear(“Wow what a show!”) with people talking about the show going experience and this one from Liz Harris about seeing Lightning Bolt is hilarious.

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Favorite album covers: The Dead C - Harsh 70’s Reality(1992).

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Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group play Voltage in the Milky Night First I bought and first critics apparently didn’t get. These sun bleached free jazz/minimalism/sunshine pop jams apparently passed them by. Still one of my favorites.

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Anyone remember the highway McDonald’s on the way to Chicago? It seemed so dystopian.

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4’33 and Duchamp’s toilet are just year after year gifts that keep giving. Maybe two of the greatest pranks of all time.

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When I think of the great recordings by Steve Albini there’s of course the all timers(Goat, Rid of Me, Surfer Rosa, In Utero) or favorites (Low, Dirty Three), but I think this is one of the best. Just made this band explode out of the speakers:

XBXRX - Gop Ist Minee

Found in a record shop's bargain bin for the low low price of two dollars. Recorded by Steve Albini(?!)11 tracks, all unnamed.Downloads:FLAC: https://mega.nz...

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In the late nineties inspired by Allmusic write-ups and some mentions in band interviews, I grabbed a copy of Tago Mago. And it was to put it mildly a defining experience! In memoriam Damo, I’m glad you got to have a mythic life!

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James McKenzie

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No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by. Not looking for a perfect list, looking for a list that you instantly regret posting because you then remember something else.

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High in my Head, an hour of nineties scuzz fuzz drug buzz featuring Bardo Pond, Dead C, Harry Pussy, Black Tambourine, Henry’s Dress, Pelt, Supreme Dicks, Strapping Fieldhands, Charalambides, and more:

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Choose your fighter! Oddballs of American music edition.

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No Age - Weirdo Rippers Having played shows with their previous band Wives that ended in some drama, I was a little suspicious of this band at first as they felt like retro throwback thing, but eventually I realized what a perfect zone of fuzzed out bliss they arrived at.

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Fine the 20 song thing.

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@bornposting The scene where they all get on the submarine is like a surreal short film just tossed in here and a top Coens moment for me.

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Favorite album covers: Trans Am - s/t(1995).

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Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis - Deep Listening How to make an accordion and trombone sound like the beginning of creation. Also this needs a reissue.

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Yo La Tengo remain one of my favorite bands of my lifetime. New album leans into their agitated burnt psych side with some heavy lidded ballads alongside. Evokes my usual favorite of the nineties run Electro-Pura.

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Melt-Banana - Scratch or Stitch The first in a great run of albums that introduced us all to their cartoon car crash no wave sci-fi grind mayhem and if I had to choose my favorite of theirs.

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Low was constantly excellent and pushing forward from the first album to the last, but the run that existed or evolved as I discovered them from Curtain hits the Cast to Trust was like discovering a beautiful and terrifying mountain and a benchmark I judge much art against.

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Favorite album covers: Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night(1999).

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Abandon bad “habits” like your kids and health and prevent the “dead zone”.

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Favorite album covers: Gastr del Sol Upgrade and Afterlife (1996).

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@carmenmmachado See also the Comics Code Authority.

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Sonny Sharrock - Guitar

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Favorite album covers: Ornette Coleman Quartet - This is Our Music (1961).

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The Clientele - I am not there Anymore Surprise return of this band with a massive puzzle of an album made of swooning dream pop, chamber baroque, nineties electronica, ambient classical, song suites, and surreal poetry without sounding like a mess.

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