Lost Notes Taken During Coffee

My Dad Is Dead - For Richer For Poorer

I have an early appreciation for the Cleveland , Ohio Native Mark Edward who was the single-founding member of My Dad Is Dead long before I heard Interpol. Right away, I likened Interpol to My Dad Is Dead on their debut 2002 release, Turn On The Bright Lights which is still a release I listen to n a semi-regular basis. Even now, once in a while during one of those listens, I have to stop in-between tracks, mid-song, and remind myself: I like Interpol because they remind me of My Dad Is Dead.

Released in 1995, For Richer For Poorer is one of My Dad Is Deads eleven full-lengths... Despite calling myself an early fan of them, like many releases decades later I'm still tracking and discovering unheard sonic masterpieces. For Richer For Poorer plays as if a sad, sultry technicolor dream... A soundtrack playing behind  Lucy pulling the football from underneath Charlie Brown time and time again. I argue to myself of the My Dad Is Dead recorded out-put as the last bastion of post-punk ethos despite originally forming in 1985. The finality of every song deserves deep recognition and repetitive listening.

Get to it...

http://youtu.be/7h78fI7WDIs

Throat Culture #15 - Zine Pro-View

This Zine made it to my hands via Todd of the Cincinnati punk band, SUBSETS. Throat Culture (as Todd explained) is done using the olden ways... Cut and paste with x-acto knifes,  scissors, glue sticks and what looks like a type-writer from at least 1998 being verily close-by... How do I know? Trust me, I know. 

This zine may, at first, give you that anti-technology feel because whereas it reviews material from bandcamp it has no Fb page to like or even a way to send a copy of this review in an e-mail... The descriptions in the reviews (of which includes a review of the SUBSETS Twothousandfourteen) quickly delivers a view of personal reactions, feelings and memories rather than taking the easy way out and just referencing like-sounding bands... Throat Culture has feeling... It hast passion... It's got groove, it's got meaning*. Each page is a work of labor and direction. How do I know? Trust me, I know. 

Containing 26 pages of tape, zine and record reviews with random topical bits and ample amounts of reflections, opinions and seemingly stream of thoughts with comics and even some hand-written pieces... Zines, in general, have charm, or should have charm... When you like a zine, you will find yourself randomly flipping through the zine a number of times. Throat Culture is a good, strong read that is a decent mix of old and new views with charm... Lots of charm. Great zines make the act of putting together zines look easy- trust me, it's not... Zines are harder to do than you think. Support this zine and all other Zines while your at it.

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GONK PUBLISHING

2700 White Ave. #3

Chico, CA. 95973

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Toboggan Race "New Demos" CD-R

Toboggan Race "New Demos" CD-R

On that fateful night that I would meet Homemade Drugs for the first time and Brian "Bad First Impression" McCabe would explain how much he liked a band I never heard of called Toboggan Race, I re-discovered that the Cincinnati suburbs were alive with the sound of punk-rock. Homemade Drugs opened doors in my mind and perception of what the Cincinnati punk scene of 2012 has not only become but what will yet be. This CD-R, the second of three articles I received from Lo-Fi City is raw and rougher sometimes than others but still gems in the making. Compiled from several different recording sessions  the nine tracks on New Demos follow the whole premise of 'action-now' with the prefix of 'i' in front of everything these days standing for immediate (if your keeping score by chance). Bringing to mind a Beat Happening/K Records sound overlaid with Cringer and J Church and being reminiscent of Lookout Records heart throbs Fifteen, the future is now. Feel free to get a tuque on and turn it up.

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Learn more on what a Toboggan is: 

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