Records
The founder of gelbe MUSIK, the renowned record store and gallery space, speaks about its history.
Featuring selections by Jem Cohen, Keith Connolly, Britton Powell, Alan Courtis, Byron Westbrook, and more.
The encounter between two different types of records and two different experiences—the diagram and the snapshot—is everywhere visible in and crucial to Dalal’s work.
“How do you draw information out if you aren’t involved and in love with it.”
The artist and composer stages her latest entanglement of bodies, spaces, and sounds at the Biennale de Montréal this October.
“It’s not a very academic approach, it’s just a part of what I like to do.”
“People discouraged me when I sang as a child, said, ‘You can’t carry a tune in a bucket.’ People still say that. Well, fuck it. I haven’t been trying to carry a tune. I’ve been essaying, expressing my interests in abstract terms, devil take the hindmost.”
“I do like feedback. It’s good for people. It is!”
As novelist and bus driver, Mills discusses The Maintenance of Headway, vinyl puritans, and the history of England.
Reflecting on a lost, post-apocalyptic, maximalist masterpiece of a concept album.
Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.
Elisa Ambrogio, Pete Nolan, and John Shaw of Magik Markers on songwriting, the ideal venue, and their new album Surrender to the Fantasy, out next week.
Mike Donovan discusses analog nostalgia, living in the garage, and Wot, his first post-Sic Alps solo album.
Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.
Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.
Poetry Out Loud, a series of ten LPs released between 1969 and 1977 as a magazine of oral poetry, has been recently rereleased digitally by De Stijl Records.
For 25-plus years Neil Michael Hagerty has been in the business of catalytic transformation. To DC-cum-NYC punk outfit Pussy Galore, he brought a blues-guitar semiotics that helped to define a signature style of trash. He then quit to form Royal Trux with Jennifer Herrema, behind which the now-thriving Drag City record label was launched.
Sic Alps’ most recent album, Napa Asylum, is made up of the degenerate splendors of rock n’ roll—boxed wine, being broke, life on the road.