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  • Vast Robot Armies’ Studio Diary – Day Twelve

    “Every single time I step into the studio, I say, ‘Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?’ I suppose there’s a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.” – Ben Harper   The air of ending hung over us as we puttered about…

  • Vast Robot Armies’ Studio Diary – Day Eleven

    “Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who’s connected with it, the studio’s gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that’s left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.” – Tom Waits I knew…

  • A traveller in time and space: a profile on Sheffield’s Jim Ghedi.

    Editor’s note: I think Jim Ghedi is one of the biggest assets in Sheffield, thanks to his artistic sensibilities and the chops to pull off projects as complex as they come. It’s with great pleasure that we had our own local mad artist/genius Keith How talk with Mr. Ghedi about his current direction. A couple…

  • Vast Robot Armies’ Studio Diary – Day Ten

    “When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.” – Paul McCartney We had arrived at the day I was…

  • 2014 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 43,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 16 sold-out performances for that many…

  • Vast Robot Armies’ Studio Diary – Day Nine

    “I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don’t know. It’s life.” – Johnny Cash It was my evening on the couch, thus I was awoke earlier than my normal 7:30am.The sounds of construction and morning rush hour traffic filled…

  • Possible Kill Screen

    Kill Screen: a stage or level found in arcade games that stop the player’s progress due to software bugs or integer overflows. Possible Kill Screen: The best episode of The Shield. I might have said this before. It’s been a long time coming, but I think it’s the time to put this little place in…

  • Best albums of 2014

      Ahoy there! We have another one of them fancy lists for your reading pleasure. Since everyone and their mothers (and farmers’ mothers) have a “best of” list by now, we asked our readers and collaborators for their choices. Some heard the call and voraciously, viciously and vividly described what they enjoyed (or not –…

  • Interview: Withershins

    A little while ago, a band from Champaign got in touch with us, contemplating the idea of streaming their new album in our dinky little website. That happened, then we fell head over heels over the album. Now, to get a trifecta, we got in touch with Isaac Arms from Withershins for an email interview. Space Rock,…

  • New Music: Sur Back, Adi Carter, Polaris Rose, URSS bajo el árbol, Solanas’ Sons

    Hello there! Here’s a few new tracks for your listening pleasure. Several genres, several paths, choose your own adventure! Been hearing some good stuff about Sur Back this year and her newest track ‘Occam’s Razor’, from her Kitsch album, keeps her sound evolving into dark fantasy territories. Adi Carter brings back the sounds of yore with ‘1980’,…