The Contrarian

I Love This Band

As many Contrarian readers can likely understand, I hate music. More specifically, I love music. Which is to say I love music so much that the disappointments are harder to take and as years go by, it’s somehow harder to even like music, which results in a generally reluctant and embittered outlook, see opening sentence. [...]

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FZ: “Jesus Thinks You’re a Jerk” B/W “Outrage at Valdez”

You ever get that feeling of deja vu?

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Night Music

I had this really fucked up dream… Okay: I’m 16 and I’m in my parents’ house, the old one. It’s the middle of the night and I’m sitting on the couch, watching TV out on our screened-in back porch. It’s different though, because the night feels bigger and weirder, like some vast uncharted region of [...]

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Hot Girls + Miniskirts + Violins + Shredding = Awesome!

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Winter Interiors with DJ Krush

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a DJ set by the esteemed DJ Krush at the Bowery Ballroom. A few months ago, I got to see him with Method of Defiance, the atmospheric-nerd-core supergroup featuring Bill Laswell, Bernie Worrell, and others. Zorn was there. The crowd was a mite thin for my [...]

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