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Me, Music
Kollaps!
For Dusted, I reviewed Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra’s Kollaps Tradixionales.
Calling this Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra’s most accessible album should not be taken as an indication that we’re in pop-song territory, or even that most of these songs have a verse/chorus/verse structure. The group’s discography (and, for some of [...] -
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Artifacts.
It’s not long after midnight on the Friday after Thanksgiving. I’m at my parents’ house in New Jersey, my onetime bedroom now occupied by a pair of sleeping beagles.
I’ve spent the last two hours looking for two very random objects: a piece of sheet music and a photograph of myself circa winter 1994, in order [...] -
Books, Me
11.19: A Reading
I’ll be taking part in Vol.1’s regular reading series this month — tomorrow (i.e. Nov. 19th), in fact. More information can be found here, and below.
Come wish us a happy winter break as we present our final Vol. 1 Brooklyn Storytelling of 2009. This month, we present two contributes to our site, and three newcomers [...] -
Book Review, Books, Me
David Ohle (redux)
A little while ago, I linked to my review of David Ohle’s chapbook Those Bones.
In the time since then, Calamari Press has released a collection of two novellas from Mr. Ohle: Boons and The Camp, provided in the increasingly-popular flipbook format. Both novellas are worth your time — they’re unsettling in both their imagery and [...] -
Me, Music, Review
Discussed: Curtis Harvey
My first encounter with Curtis Harvey’s music came via Rex’s C, around 1996 or so. Musically, I was starting to explore work that was outside the boundaries of the hardcore and alt-rock I’d previously obsessed over. It’s a fine, textured album that’s held up remarkably well, as has their followup to it, 3.
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Me, Music
David Wingo Talks Soundtracks, Ola Podrida
For Flavorwire, I interviewed David Wingo of Ola Podrida and numerous film soundtracks, including — most recently — Gentlemen Broncos. A number of questions, including some relating to Ola Podrida’s upcoming album Belly of the Lion, were cut for reasons of space; they appear below.
Where during this period of time did the songs for Belly [...] -
Me, Music, Review
Revisiting Rachel’s (by proxy)
In the summer of 1995, shortly before leaving my hometown for college, I went to a house party in Middletown, New Jersey — memorable in part because that was where I heard numerous bands who would later become personal favorites. Seam in particular, but also the Louisville post-rock ensemble Rachel’s. All of which is prelude [...]
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Fiction, Me
….say it three times, and quickly.
Featherproof has launched their TripleQuick application for the iPhone. Four sample stories — from Shane Jones, Lindsay Hunter, Paul Fattaruso, and Amelia Gray — can be read on Featherproof’s site.
Among the other contributors is, well, me. Writing at that length (the stories had a maximum length of 333 words) was one of the hardest things [...] -
Me, Music
In Which Jesse Lortz is Interviewed
For Flavorwire, I chatted with Jesse Lortz of The Dutchess & The Duke.
Their new album Sunset/Sunrise is pretty terrific. Given that the paperthinwalls archive is not so present, I’m tempted to post an earlier Q & A I did with Mr. Lortz — look for that sometime next week. I’ll be in Chicago until Wednesday, [...] -
Book Review, Books, Me
In Which “Please Step Back” Is Reviewed
The September issue of the generally excellent Word Riot is up, and with it is my review of Ben Greenman’s Please Step Back. (Which, you may recall, I also delved into here.)
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Books, Me, Music
Three More Pieces
One: For Jacket Copy, some thoughts on fictional bands. Among the works discussed: Ben Greenman’s Please Step Back, Joe Pernice’s It Feels So Good When I Stop, Jonathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love Me Yet, Annie Proulx’s “Heart Songs,” and Camden Joy’s Boy Island.
Two: For Dusted, some thoughts on Forest Fire’s Survival.
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Books, Me
Two Pieces
One: For Jacket Copy, some thoughts on the areas in which record stores and bookstores overlap. Discussed: Yeti, McNally Jackson, Easy Street Records.
Two: For Vol.1, a review of Timmy Waldron’s collection World Takes. -
Books, Me, Music
Talking Comics / Talking Music
For the month of August, the Los Angeles Times’s Jacket Copy blog is running Rock Your Books Off, a series of posts about the areas in which books and music overlap. (There’s an explanation of the series here.) I will be contributing a few pieces to the series, and my first — a look at [...]
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Tobias Carroll lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has covered music and books for a number of publications, and his fiction has appeared in THE2NDHAND, 3:AM, Word Riot, and as part of Featherproof Books' "Light Reading" series. He is presently working on multiple projects of varying lengths.
