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Category Archives: Recorded Music
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: COVID-19 Performance Duo – “All the Same”
The last track on Ball of Wax 62 (to recap, this volume exclusively features music written in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election) is a blistering piece of sonic catharsis from Rache Riot and Nate Daly, aka COVID-19 Performance … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Colin Ernst – “If I Were President (I’d Be Shot)”
It’s not a simple task to match up a spoken-word performance with music and make it all work, but Colin Ernst does it with ease in “If I Were President (I’d Be Shot).” This piece has a kind of King-Missile-meets-Spaulding-Gray … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Bryan Nicolas Brophy – “Killer Brother”
I know we all need to try and understand one another. And I guess there’s a pervasive feeling that we all need to figure out how to do that now more than ever. But it’s so hard. And it often … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Seth Howard – “The Understudy Caught the Cold”
The guitar strums for only a measure before the vocals enter. No exposition. The story begins in medias res. We see pixels flickering. We hear dishes jittering. If you type out the lyrics to Seth Howard’s “The Understudy Caught the … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Joshua Dennis – “Hold On Till Dawn”
Joshua Dennis – who has appeared on Ball of Wax under a few different monikers over the years – wrote this song the day after election day, after a restless night/morning. He’s based on the east coast now, so it … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: James Kelly Pitts – “God Is Not a Cop”
In hushed tones barely louder than a whisper, James Kelly Pitts exhorts the listener to “Do anything at all.” Simple guitar chords and minimalist percussion frame this quiet demand to break the inertia of the everyday and to think past … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Virgin of the Birds – “Delco Saved the World”
In the Virgin of the Birds Cinematic Universe (or the VOBCU, itself a subsidiary of the Ball of Wax Cinematic Universe, aka the BOWCU), Pennsylvania is our HQ. Jon Rooney (humble leader of Virgin of the Birds) is making it … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Invasion Boys – “Bone Tired”
Taking their name from a line from a Guided By Voices b-side (“Playing tricks on the invasion boys”), I was on their side even before I hit play. Daunting, true, but the song earns my faith. My suspicion is this … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Love Scenes – “A Smooth Transition”
Man, you know what I miss? Being in a room with two other people, playing music together. Sometimes you play actual songs, sometimes you just mess around with riffs and try things out, and sometimes the messing around turns into … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 62 Songs: Nonetheless Notwithstanding Feat. Sceneries Placements – “Precedence”
For a song that, melodically speaking, has about six notes (two different repeating three-note melodies that each occupy the first two quarters of the running time), there is a lot going on in “Precedence.” Which is fitting, I suppose, given … Continue reading
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