Thunder Pie | Scroll of Jawns: Episode 12

jawn /jôn/ noun - (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a...

Next Week in Music | June 2-8 • The Short List: 28 Titles You...

Any dipshit can hip you to new platters by the likes of Lil Wayne, Cynthia Erivo and other topliners. But only a special kind of dipshit is willing to...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Beyond Mocambo

The Andy Warhol-illustrated 1977 Rolling Stones double-album Love You Live has one disc of Mick Jagger’s picks and the second featuring those of Keith Richards. It's fitting that half of...

Thunder Pie | The Three in the Photo

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” — Diane Arbus We did a tour. It was long ago now, before I...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Great Songs By Awful Bands

For the sake of clarity and in an effort to triage dissenters, let me first say I know these bands aren’t necessarily all “awful.” I just don’t really care...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Sell Your Soul

I have long been fascinated by all the R&B, soul, funk, and soul jazz covers of Beatles songs. They're almost the only Beatles covers worth your while — a...

Thunder Pie | The Sound of Goats in Centre Hall

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” — Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian By the recycling dumpsters down in...

Grae Makes You Wait 7 Minutes ’Til Heaven

Grae takes her time and does it right on her seductive new album 7 Minutes ’Til Heaven — showcasing today on Tinnitist. After a string of standout singles — American...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | One Of A Kind

The closest thing I have to a homemade instrument might be a pair of Sesame Street socks for babies, with rattles in the toes. They were given to me for...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Mansion Sweet Mansion

One of the things I love about Bruce Cockburn is that his album lyrics and liner notes often include details of when and where each song was written. If I...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | G D G B D

I don't know where I'd be without Keith Richards and Flecton Big Sky. Next year will mark a decade since I put out my first Area Resident album. I'd been...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Making Nicky Hopkins Uncomfortable

The album release party for The Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet album was a notoriously messy affair, complete with a well-documented food fight. But the real release party for the...

Thunder Pie | On Billie Holiday

Yesterday on the later side of the evening, I was sitting in the back door listening to Billie Holiday. I had no booze in me and none in a...

Brett Abrahamsen Has 11 Questions For Marc Ostermeier

A Folding Sieve — the debut ep from Marc Ostermeier’s Should, then known as Shift — stands as one of the greatest shoegaze albums of the ’90s. Lo-fi production...

Thunder Pie | Scroll of Jawns: Episode 11

jawn /jôn/ noun - (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a...

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