Well hallo-gallo and well met, ye weary traveler.
Come in, warm yrself by the hearth and try to ignore thee egg on my face.
I owe you a post! A real one!
And this ain’t it.
I see a clutch of new subscribers, which makes this breathing bar-rag smile.
The next one will be something. Probably a breakdown of overlooked new shit that you should be digging.
But to distract you, let’s check out a couple things I’ve had published on Bandcamp Daily since the big Albini piece.
I really enjoyed going deep on some cassette labels that got their start during the glory days of the 1980s cassette scene, and are still at it, all these years later, on Bandcamp. I drop some info about the labels and then highlight a selection of releases from each. Some real cool, and fairly obscure, shit!
TAPE HISS TRANSCENDS TIME AND SPACE
The last Spin Age Blasters fill-in I did on WFMU functions as a companion to this piece.
[Did you know there are over 380 episodes of Spin Age Blasters that you can listen to whenever the hell you want?]
I also wrote about the new Drin LP, Elude The Torch.
If yr a reader of this blog-zine and “The Drin” rings a bell, it’s because the first thing I published on Anonymous Cave was an interview with Drin leader Dylan McCartney.
Did I recycle a line or two? Maaaaaybe.
There’s more Bandcamp Daily features waiting in the wings.
Aaaaand another thing—Did you know I’ve written well over 25,000 words worth of punk record reviews for Maximumrocknroll over the least 4+ years?
Lots of good stuff, a bunch of OK stuff, and a couple total bummers. Such is life.
In more selfish news, I’ve been dropping a ton of new muzak via Bandcamp.
CYANIDE TOOTH has a veritable rash of brand new things.
First one is a live, straight “to tape” run-thru in my room for a show I played a few days later.
I think it sounds sick, but I guess I’m biased?
The other one is the second in my New Isolationism series.
Hell, that’s all tailing on my most recent cassette release which came out this past February on Flat Plastic, which is the new-ish label run by Tim Gick, of Tim Gick, and formerly of Crazy Doberman, TV Ghost and more.
It’s called Sixth Dimension Vacation, and it just got a rave review from Byron Coley in the newest issue of The Wire.
I’ll be dropping TWO more brand new digital albums over the next week, both completely different.
I also threw down a new ROGUE CHROMOSOME EP.
This project is all about fucked-up, noisy techno and techno-adjacent kind of shit. Cyanide Tooth also delves into techno, but it’s usually pretty fried and elastic. RC is just like slamming beats and lo-bit aesthetics.
Hey, wanna release any of this shit, or something brand new?
HMU, I’ve got tons of material.
Thanks for sticking with me.