Tag Archives: Shuggie Otis

The Sound of Your DOOM is the Roar of the Tiger, No Jive

March 24, 2009 – 10:30 am
A couple of days ago the Northern Hemisphere crossed the threshold from Winter into Spring and with the exception of a few locations hit with “freak” blizzards or anachronistically chilly blasts of arctic wind that means ski-mask season is all but over for most of us. I mean that in a strictly meteorological sense […]
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Romance at Random, Vol. 81: Sylvia Pillow Talk

February 13, 2009 – 10:30 am
So, tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day, a feast-day intended to honor early Christian martyrs who bore the name Valentinus. Thanks to a misinterpretation of a Chaucer poem, the efforts of 14th century French courtesans and the industriousness of a Massachusetts woman named Esther Howland who essentially founded the modern greeting-card industry, February 14th has […]
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Records Reissues at Random Vol. 62 - Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth

August 8, 2008 – 11:57 am
A couple weekends ago I dumped a bunch of albums on my best friend and housemate m. Cody’s iPod. A lot of them were records I recommended that she wanted to give a whirl. But a few of them were requests, mostly records she owned on tape or CD, some of which had […]
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For Losers as Well as Super Stars

July 9, 2008 – 10:59 am
I spend so much of my time digging through obscurities that I often don’t hear about what’s going on well-established artists until the last minute. My underground fetish withstanding, this may have something to do with general skepticism of the things people in the entertainment industry say about their future products. I guess […]
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