The Children… blog interview

Q-Burns Abstract Message interviewed The Children… on his blog. I’m struck by the way he used a personal blog for publishing something valuable to the world. The band is new but notable because of the predecessor bands, which were important in the pre-grunge postpunk world. I like the band’s instrumentals but didn’t dig the singing. […]

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A blog after the death of blogs

One reason this blog is such a solitary experience is that blogs are dead. Things aren’t aggregated from scattered sources, they are published within a distribution site. I don’t like it, but can’t do anything about it short of creating an aggregator, which would be a tech project that took me away from music.

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Anesthetic

What is my music FOR? How can I make a contribution? One answer is balm. Solace. Painkiller. Healing. Dreams heal too. You have a bad experience, or you’re afraid of something, and your dream reflects it in a way that lets you process. Music is not just metaphorically similar to dreaming, it works the same […]

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