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Music Features

Sonic Youth
Frazier Chorus
Iggy Pop
The Pixies
The The
Ed Tomney

Music Reviews

Broadcast & Echoboy
Snowpony
Tin Machine
Mano Negra
Triple Threat

Band Bios

King Swamp

 

 

   
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I used to be a percussionist and I worked at Geffen Records. I was also a music supervisor for national promo videos and television programs, most notably working for David Lynch and Mark Frost during the “Twin Peaks” era.

I would prefer to write music features or interviews, but can churn out CD and live musical event reviews as well. I can also write websites, press kits, and brochures for performing arts institutions, or band biographies for record companies. Samples of my copywriting are at Handbitten.

My musical tastes favor the alternative and eclectic. I like odd orchestrations; ambient and lounge music; early jazz and blues; punk, gothic and New Wave; international indigenous inventions; and DJ music with an edge.

Music Features

Sonic Youth - "I was selling some magazines and comic books on the street once many years ago, to make some chump change, and [Andy Warhol] came by and took my picture. It’s probably in one of a million shoeboxes in a storage space somewhere now."

Frazier Chorus - "I fancied Kate and I thought saying, ‘Do you want to be in my band?’ was as good a chat-up line as any."
Iggy Pop - "I was politically interested until I was about fourteen or fifteen," Pop remembers. "I worked for Kennedy in 1960: door-to-door, pamphlets, voter registration, that sort of stuff… and he got shot and I got in bands."
The Pixies - "Our stories are more like flipping through cable [television] ; stuff with no beginning, middle or end, stuff that’s totally disoriented, confused and abstract."
The The - "I’ve tried things like meditation…to attain spiritual goals and stuff, but it’s really difficult ‘cause you’re constantly distracted. I like to spend a lot of time alone if I can… It’s really important, actually, to enjoy your own company."
Ed Tomney (2.1 MB) - Tomney's film score triumph was the subtly invasive drones in Safe, Todd Haynes' disturbing blur of disease and hypochondria.

Music Reviews

Broadcast & Echoboy

Snowpony

Tin Machine
Mano Negra
Triple Threat

Band Bios

King Swamp

 


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