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#tonguepocket.15 – buzzsaw in the glovebox
Red lights blink in amber hazeWrist says “Enter Password” in the morning dazeFiretruck bumper, chevron glareRiding silence with static airOutlets cracked like fossil teethUnderneath the table, griefSomething plugged in long agoBut power’s fickle—let it goBuzzsaw in the glovebox, mannequin grinOld guitar aching with a song withinKeys and clips in quiet revoltThe bat still swings, but…
Cassette Culture Node.Linz!
Wolfgang Dorninger (base, Josef K. Noyce, fadi) has a large online archive of material related to the cassette culture underground 1980-present. https://www.base.at/ccnl
The Les Paul Recording Studio: Honoring a Sonic Pioneer in Hollywood
In a tribute to the legendary guitarist and innovator Les Paul, a new recording studio has been established in Hollywood, celebrating his groundbreaking contributions to music technology. Located within United Recording on Sunset Boulevard, the Les Paul Recording Studio serves both as a functional recording space and a living museum, preserving the legacy of a…
Ken Clinger – State of Flux (Recording Discussion, 2010)
Lyrics by Craig Conley, music and performance by Ken Clinger. The inspiration for the piece was Craig Conley’s lyrics, which were originally part of Captive Audience’s “Esperantoland” project, from the late 1990s. The recording process was entirely with Apple’s GarageBand software, based on the opening guitar arpeggio measure. Between it and the lyrics, everything else…
Copy This Cassette – #3 (Zine, 2025)
GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker, : There’s something undeniably comforting — and exciting — about holding a zine that’s this tuned into the pulse of cassette culture in 2025. Copy This Cassette #3 is the third installment of Blake’s cassette-focused zine, and it might be the most robust yet. Clocking in at 64 digest-sized, black-and-white,…
Dino DiMuro – Snoutburger (Cassette, 1986)
GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: Dino DiMuro’s Snoutburger remains one of the touchstones of 1980s home recording culture—an album that’s not just loved, but defended. Originally released in 1986 on cassette and given a bright new digital remaster, it’s both a conceptual suite and a grab bag of singularly Dino moments, depending on which side…
Philip Gayle – Sunrise Crazy (CD, 2025)
GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: Philip Gayle’s Sunrise Crazy is the kind of album that refuses to sit still long enough to be defined. It’s an unruly burst of creativity that bursts its seams with every eccentric idea it can muster—then calmly inserts a piano interlude or a mournful clarinet passage just when you think…
Joel Krutt – What’s Next? (Digital, 2003)
ARTIST/LABEL NOTES: There are times when you are exposed to something long enough that it works its way through your neural networks and finds its way back out again, filtered through whatever capacities you can bring to it. For the past 18 years I’ve hosted a radio program, “Pushing The Envelope – Music Decidedly Left…
