BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Full House Head presents mind-numbingly blissful tracks, and uses repeated riffs to create a long, loud, monolithic album.
The vast rewards offered by the films of Nagisa Oshima, exemplified by the strange, unclassifiable Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, are just beginning to be appreciated in America.
Analog synth revivalists/futurists Xeno & Oaklander have new a album, Sets & Lights, out now on Wierd Records. BOMBsessions visited them in their Brooklyn studio.
Sharon Van Etten’s new album Tramp is out now. Check out a BOMBsessions video interview from the old folkie days, circa 2009.
This BOMBsession features the Wingdale Community Singers.
BOMBsessions are short docu-music-mentaries featuring live performances by and interviews with musicians. This BOMBsession features the American Primitive guitarist Steve Gunn.
If you’re in Minneapolis the week, stop by the Walker Art Center, where Georgopoulos has an audio installation as part of ROLU’s residency.
The Dead C represents the darker, murkier flipside of the classic New Zealand sound. The band’s Michael Morley answers a few questions about the new album and breaks down his mixtape, which includes some surprising picks.
Named after a Balinese witch goddess, Rangda is three-headed beast of a band. Ben Chasny, Sir Richard Bishop, and jazz/noise/whatever genius drummer Chris Corsano have teamed up to blow minds with their debut album, False Flag.
Jacques Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord and Bob Byington’s Somebody Up There Likes Me are abstract in different ways, but for the same reason: lack of funds.
Michael Yonkers’ Lovely Gold is a mystifying and beautiful record, all recorded on a hand-built, “four-channel, tube-type,” machine. Yonkers was kind enough to answer some questions for BOMBlog from his home in Minneapolis.
Full House Head presents mind-numbingly blissful tracks, and uses repeated riffs to create a long, loud, monolithic album.
This Editor’s Choice contains Clinton Krute’s review of Estonian filmmaker Veiko Ounpuu’s second feature The Temptation of St. Tony.
In Attenberg, filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari tells the story of a young woman’s coming-of-age while highlighting the political situation in Greece and the age-old clash between our human and animal instincts.
Clinton Krute peers into the inscrutable world of filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, exploring the puzzles of The Day He Arrives.
In homage to ’80s cult band Felt, artists Christian Flamm and Mike Sperlinger crafted an encompassing, investigative fanzine of a book.
Sensations’ Fix rare ’70s space-rock album is now widely available for release. Along with including unreleased music for a never-made or imaginary film, these tracks put Sensations’ Fix in a category of a band that sounds like no other.
