There’s weird, and then there’s Keith Thornton, a.k.a. Kool Keith. As hip-hop went pop and the underground became massive in response, Kool Keith Past Perfect
Analog Brothers
Pimp to Eat
August 25th, 2016 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | 1 Comment »
There’s weird, and then there’s Keith Thornton, a.k.a. Kool Keith. As hip-hop went pop and the underground became massive in response, Kool Keith
Various Artists
C87
August 1st, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
As we’ve discussed previously in greater detail, when the New Musical Express released its C86 cassette in 1986, no one had any idea of the impact the
Amphetamine Reptile
Reissues
June 27th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Although seemingly lying dormant for most of the past couple of decades, Amphetamine Reptile Records—the Minneapolis-based label
The Cars
The Elektra Years: 1978–1987
April 20th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
When thinking of the music of the ’80s, most people probably envision some extreme version of new wave squeaked out of synthesizers by a band
The Pop Group
For How Much Longer Will We Tolerate Mass Murder?
April 8th, 2016 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Whether by design or pure coincidence, 2016 is turning out to be the perfect year for The Pop Group to step back into the public eye
The Feelies
Only Life and Time for a Witness
March 24th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
I’m not so predisposed to luddism as to tell you that things were better in the days before the internet put a gabillion superbytes of information at our
Various Artists
Still In a Dream
March 14th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Though its heyday lasted just a few years, the so-called shoegaze movement of the early ’90s has continued to have a lasting effect on music
Circle Jerks
VI
March 2nd, 2016 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
There’s something about the early days of punk that seems, not disposable, but unconcerned about the future. When the major labels took a hard pass
Styrenes
CLE 76–79 Unreleased
February 29th, 2016 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
If you’re at all familiar with the idiosyncratic musical output that emerged from Cleveland in the ’70s and which has since been labeled as proto-punk, you
Swans
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity and Love of Life
February 1st, 2016 | by Jamie Pietras | published in Past Perfect | Leave A Comment »
Swans’ sprawling discography, spanning 1983 to present, is often assessed by epochs. Early Swans is sludgy and scary, a slow