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...
