As much as music has always meant to me, I’ve never been one to get too emotional over the passings of the people who make it. (Unless, it’s someone I Past Perfect
Joe Strummer
Assembly
April 19th, 2021 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
As much as music has always meant to me, I’ve never been one to get too emotional over the passings of the people who make it. (Unless, it’s someone I
Orchestra Baobab
Specialist in All Styles
October 12th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Begun 50 years ago, when the shrewd owner of Club Baobab (so named because it was built around a baobab tree) in Dakar poached members of the house
Wipers
Is This Real?
August 30th, 2020 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Still several years before it became a hipster utopia worthy of it own sketch comedy TV show, I moved to Portland on a whim from New York City. It only took
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Souvenir
November 8th, 2019 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
While to mainstream audiences Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (a.k.a. OMD) may forever be remembered simply for “If You Leave,” their big U.S.
Dead Kennedys
DK40
May 15th, 2019 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
While the reunion of the Dead Kennedys without singer and figurehead Jello Biafra has perhaps sullied the band’s legacy, there is no denying that the band
Scream
NMC17
April 26th, 2018 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
It’s impossible to discuss No More Censorship without pointing out that Dave Grohl was the drummer, though there are many popular misconceptions that
The Langley Schools Music Project
Innocence & Despair
March 8th, 2018 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
There are things you can’t predict: the return of the Flat Earth Society, “raw water,” Three 6 Mafia winning an Oscar, etc. In that vein, who would think
Spiny Normen
Spiny Normen
February 27th, 2018 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Spiny Normen didn’t know what they were doing; just one listen to the band’s self-titled album will confound and stupefy anyone trying to make sense of it all. This
Various Artists
C88
November 10th, 2017 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
That more than 30 years later it’s still possible to describe a band’s sound aesthetically as “C86” is a tribute to the lasting cultural impact of the humble
Various Artists
Silhouettes & Statues
July 23rd, 2017 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
As I was reminded recently when I saw someone wearing black lipstick and black clothes reading a book called So Sad Today on the subway, it’s possible to be