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Category Archives: Recorded Music
Ball of Wax 67 Songs: E – “Any Information”
I feel like we’ve used the term ‘supergroup’ a bit too much around here of late (i.e., like, three times), but E is truly worthy of the title – at least to me and likely many others who spent much … Continue reading
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Tagged E, Gavin McCarthy, Jason Sidney Sanford, Thalia Zedek
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Ball of Wax 67 Songs: Guma – “Mud Doctor”
Has it really been over five years since we’ve shared a song from our Austin pals Guma? Apparently so. I was delighted to receive the band’s new album A List of Sightings in my inbox recently, and upon hearing “Mud … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 67 Songs: Lacey Brown – “Thin Air”
[Editor’s note: Ball of Wax 67 is coming! And for the first time in two years we’re having a live, in-person, release show! Join us March 12th at 7pm at the Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center in … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 66 Songs: Tom Dyer & The True Olympians – “It’s Mud”
The last time I reviewed a song by Tom Dyer & the True Olympians, I closed it by calling the song “just damn fun” and heck if they haven’t done it AGAIN. I still don’t know where Tom Dyer finds … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 66 Songs: Keyboar – “Welcome to today forever”
Simple brilliant clean rockin’ execution. Keyboar‘s “Welcome to today forever” brings forth a straight forward catchy riff right off the bat, making your body rock right along with the beat. The bass sets the attitude and tone of the song, … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 66 Songs: Strange Torpedoes – “Watching the Driveway (for Headlights That Never Came)”
I love instrumental song titles. The little bit of context they provide goes a long way in coloring our understanding of the piece. Strange Torpedoes’ “Watching the Driveway (for Headlights That Never Came)” might be about latchkey kids or a … Continue reading
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Tagged Jesus on the moon, strange torpedoes, Terwilliger Curves
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defineartworks – “We Come in Peace”
A brief ambient interlude, a little under two minutes but suggesting a much greater span. We (they?) come in peace, but the arrival is also tinged with nostalgia for infinite time and endless space. Ball of Wax Volume 66 by … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 66 Songs: Colin Ernst – “The Point of No Return”
For some reason, I tend to think of Colin Ernst as being a part of Ball of Wax since Levi first started putting it together. This isn’t the case, so it must be that Colin’s material embodies something of the … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 66 Songs: Bryan Nicolas Brophy – “Watch the World”
As I hope is obvious by now, I am a fan of all kinds of strange and weird and adventurous music/sound: Weird time signatures; drone; unusual or homemade instruments; noisy, lo-fi recordings, I love it all. That said, I’m also … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 66 Songs: The Magic of Multiples – “Mimas”
The Magic of Multiples brings multitudinous multitracking (of voices) over asymmetrical meter: we’ve heard this before, somewhere in the shadows of our memory, but it remains just beyond the edge of identification. Ball of Wax Volume 66 by The Magic … Continue reading