Y’all should know how much I love Glossary. I’ve posted about the band several times (click here to visit all Glossary-related posts) and last week they released their outstanding new album, Long Live All Of Us. However, preceding said release were a pair of video trailers you may not have seen. Allow me to rectify […]
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Vulture Whale: Wes McDonald – vocals, guitar, powdered wig Les Nuby – guitar, bowchickawowwow Keelan Parrish – bass, how low can you go? Jake Waitzman – drums, both real and air As the calendar turns to October and we cool down from the searing, brain-scrambling, triple-digit summer temps (“I really should’ve layered today, it might […]
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We sing to free ourselves from the room We love the sound, the sound is what found us Sound is the love between me and you. –Wild Flag, “Romance” My previous post celebrated the music of Wild Flag … their song “Glass Tambourine,” in particular … to show that music writing can be about […]
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There’s an old saying about music writing, usually attributed to Frank Zappa or Elvis Costello, that goes, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” In researching this further, it seems that Elvis got the quote from, of all people, comedian Martin Mull. Mull’s full quote was, “Writing about music is like dancing about […]
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Thanks to the king of southwest Georgia and This Is American Music queso grande, Corey Flegel, for inspiring today’s post. We were chatting a few days ago about the new Glossary album, Long Live All Of Us, and he made reference to The Equals, of whom I was sadly ignorant. I soon discovered they […]
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