Tag Archives: Japanther

Hexes’ and Eche’s

A full week of December is nearly over, which means the end of 2008 is nigh. The tail end of any year is typically kinda slow music-wise. The usual flood of releases is reduced to a trickle. People in “the industry” increasingly take time off for the holidays. Folks like me […]

Money vs. The Mummy (in 3-D!)

Monday I mentioned how I had to abandon my plans to give scantily clad women money in exchange for the opportunity to watch them shake their butts in honor of my birthday. But today’s post is about a pair of bands who’ve released albums that’re actually about currency and gyrating one’s posterior. Founded by Chicagoan Matt […]

“Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.”

Over the last month I’ve been preoccupied with a lot of things, most of them downers like death, uncertainty, mortality, throwing out the belongings of a loved-one, paying bills, and so-on. In between I’ve listened to lots of music, and tried to write about some of it. But stress and the aforementioned depressing minutia has […]