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Writers - Michael Crumsho
Features
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Assorted Skullduggery (Michael Crumsho)
Michael Crumsho takes a long walk down a short memory lane with a few of his favorite things from 2005. Read this feature...
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Cracking the Open Channels: Some Thoughts on the Dead C.
Michael Crumsho reflects on the Dead C. in all their muddy glory on the occasion of Ba Da Bing's double CD career retrospective Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987 - 2005. Read this feature...
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Crochety Nagging: Notes on Lester Bangs
Michael Crumsho attempts to get to the bottom of famed rocked critic Lester Bangs through John Morthland's new anthology of his writings, Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader. Read this feature...
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Dance Class: An Interview with Out Hud
Michael Crumsho interviews Nic Offer and Molly Schnick of Brooklyn's Out Hud. Read this feature...
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Dance of the Dialectic: Ten Years of Mouse on Mars
Michael Crumsho caught up with Mouse on Mars on the Lower East Side as the German duo prepares for the release of their eighth full-length, Radical Connector. Read this feature...
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Destined: Burning Star Core
Michael Crumsho takes a look at drone-revisionist C. Spencer Yeh's Burning Star Core. Read this feature...
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Destined: Magik Markers
Michael Crumsho sheds some light on Magik Markers and their writing on the wall. Read this feature...
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Destined: Mi Ami
Dusted's Michael Crumsho talks shop with San Francisco's Mi Ami. Read this feature...
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Destined: Various Production
Michael Crumsho plays gumshoe trying to follow the trail of England's latest blank-faced genre hoppers, Various Production. Read this feature...
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Destined: Wooden Shjips
Dusted's Michael Crumsho chats with San Francisco's latest psychedelic behemoths, Wooden Shjips. Read this feature...
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George Bush Is Still an Idiot (Michael Crumsho)
Politically and socially, 2002 was complete bullshit. In terms of music, though, it wasn't that bad. From Out Hud to Alan Jackson, here's what Michael Crumsho liked a lot and liked...well...not so much. Read this feature...
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I Am Literally Two Hundred Feet from What Will Be the Eventual Epicenter of New York Zombie-dom
Apparently, some records came out in 2007. Michael Crumsho is as shocked as you are. Read this feature...
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I'm in Your Internets, Co-Opting a Meme as a Year End Review Feature Title (Michael Crumsho)
Has it been twelve months already? Michael Crumsho pens a hastily written ode to a bunch of records he really, really liked in 2006. Read this feature...
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Northern Exposure
Michael Crumsho takes a look at three of the newest releases from one of the world's leading experimental labels, Norway's Rune Grammofon. Read this feature...
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Political Discourse at an Exact Scale: An Interview with Matthew Herbert
British electronic music producer Matthew Herbert sits down with Michael Crumsho to chat about his latest album Scale and his ongoing efforts at using his body of music to discuss the worldwide state of the body politic. Read this feature...
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Run for Cover (Michael Crumsho)
Michael Crumsho pulls himself away from the Fox Network (where quality is job number one) to talk about music for a few minutes and then rant about "the nature of things" for a good long while. Read this feature...
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Something Like a Phenomenon
After a ninteen year hiatus, Liquid Liquid triumphantly returned to a revitalized New York music scene on March 7 at New York City's Knitting Factory with Out Hud in tow. Read this feature...
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Sonic Youth Says Hello to Liars
Perrenial hipsters Sonic Youth celebrated Black Friday, the start of Hannukah, and the Thanksgiving holidays with a couple of shows at New York City's Irving Plaza.
Supported by fellow New Yorker's Liars, Sonic Youth's latest live outings were the perfect meeting of the old and new guard of New York's much heralded rock scene. Read this feature...
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Speaking Volumes: Dizzee Rascal Live
Michael Crumsho takes in the sights and sounds of Dizzee Rascal's first trip to these United States at Volume in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Read this feature...
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Subtle Discolations: A Ze Records Compendium
Michael Crumsho takes a closer look at the recent crop of reissues from Ze Records, a label where post-punk, no wave, and mutant disco met to boogie down. Read this feature...
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The Life and Times of Judee Sill
Michael Crumsho takes a look at the life and work of the dearly departed singer-songwriter Judee Sill Read this feature...
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What Will We Tell the Children? by Michael Crumsho
Michael Crumsho makes a futile effort to comb through some of the myriad of records that helped contribute to his perilous financial standing. Read this feature...
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Reviews
Artist: 23 Skidoo Album: The Gospel Comes To New Guinea Label: Ronin Review date: Feb. 16, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: Animal Collective featuring Vashti Bunyan Album: Prospect Hummer Label: FatCat Review date: May. 5, 2005 Read This Review
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Bubblz From the Underground
Artist: Anti-Pop Consortium Album: Arrhythmia Label: Warp Review date: Apr. 9, 2002 Read This Review
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Boldly Going Where Some Have Been Before
Artist: Astrobotnia Album: Part 01, Part 02, & Part 03 Label: Rephlex Review date: Sep. 26, 2002 Read This Review
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Artist: Atlas Sound Album: Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel Label: Kranky Review date: Feb. 18, 2008 Read This Review
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Artist: Afrika Bambaata Album: Planet Rock / Beware: The Funk Is Everywhere Label: DBK Works Review date: Jan. 16, 2006 Read This Review
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Artist: Brightblack Morning Light Album: Brightblack Morning Light Label: Matador Review date: Jul. 31, 2006 Read This Review
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Memories Below, Stars Above
Artist: The Caretaker Album: A Stairway To the Stars Label: V/Vm Test Review date: Jul. 9, 2002 Read This Review
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The Interplanetary Craft
Artist: Drexciya Album: Grava 4 Label: CLONE Review date: Sep. 30, 2002 Read This Review
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Happy New Year's, Suckers
Artist: The Fantomas/Melvins Big Band Album: Millenium Monsterwork 2000 Label: Ipecac Review date: May. 7, 2002 Read This Review
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More Magic Sounds...
Artist: Fenn O'Berg Album: The Return of Fenn O'Berg Label: Mego Review date: Aug. 19, 2002 Read This Review
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An Unspoken But Evident Triumph
Artist: Four Tet Album: Rounds Label: Domino Review date: May. 15, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: Fuck Buttons Album: Street Horrrsing Label: ATP Review date: Mar. 13, 2008 Read This Review
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Confidence Among the Flaws
Artist: Interpol Album: Turn on the Bright Lights Label: Matador Review date: Sep. 12, 2002 Read This Review
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Drenched in Sound
Artist: Philip Jeck & Jacob Kirkegaard Album: Soaked Label: Touch Review date: Nov. 14, 2002 Read This Review
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Well, It Beats the Hell Out of Live: Entertainment or Death
Artist: Köhn Album: Koen Label: (K-raa-k)3 Review date: Aug. 8, 2002 Read This Review
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Get in touch with Lambchop's feminine side
Artist: Lambchop Album: Is a Woman Label: Merge Review date: Mar. 31, 2002 Read This Review
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The New Pulse of America
Artist: Liars Album: They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top Label: Mute Review date: Aug. 26, 2002 Read This Review
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A Ginormous Record
Artist: Lightning Bolt Album: Wonderful Rainbow Label: Load Review date: Feb. 23, 2003 Read This Review
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Artist: Lightning Bolt Album: Hypermagic Mountain Label: Load Review date: Oct. 9, 2005 Read This Review
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Joy, Fun, and Seasons in the Sun
Artist: Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn / Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Friends Album: Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project Label: K Review date: Aug. 11, 2003 Read This Review
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Hiroshima, mono amour
Artist: Mono Album: Under the Pipal Tree Label: Tzadik Review date: Mar. 31, 2002 Read This Review
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Give the man his due
Artist: Gordon Mumma Album: Live-Electronic Music Label: Tzadik Review date: Mar. 31, 2002 Read This Review
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Brevity Is The Soul Of Something
Artist: Plaid Album: P-Brane EP Label: Warp Review date: Apr. 9, 2002 Read This Review
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Sounds Laid Bare
Artist: Pleasurehorse Album: Bareskinrug Label: Load Review date: Apr. 9, 2003 Read This Review
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After All, the Game Is to be Told...
Artist: Prefuse 73 Album: One Word Extinguisher Label: Warp Review date: Jun. 9, 2003 Read This Review
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Improvising in Waves
Artist: Keith Rowe & Oren Ambarchi Album: Flypaper Label: Staubgold Review date: Feb. 20, 2003 Read This Review
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Wanted: Open Ears for Sonic Abstractionist
Artist: Janek Schaefer Album: Pulled Under Label: AudiOh! Review date: Jul. 22, 2002 Read This Review
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Two Thoughts, One Wall Of Noise
Artist: Sightings Album: Sightings Label: Load Review date: Apr. 16, 2002 Read This Review
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Poised for Noise
Artist: Speedranch and Jansky Noise Album: Migrate Label: Planet Mu Review date: Aug. 12, 2003 Read This Review
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It's Okay...I Don't Speak Norwegian Either
Artist: Spunk Album: Den Øverste Toppen På En Blåmalt Flaggstang Label: Rune Grammofon Review date: Jun. 11, 2002 Read This Review
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Artist: V/A Album: Bats'i Son: The Music of the Highlands of Chiapas, Mexico < | | |
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