the principle reason you should get your hands on an old tape deck

this should be reason enough for any true music fan to scrounge up an old working cassette deck: there is an incredible amount of new, great, interesting music, that's only coming out on tape. that's it. you can stop reading this now.

review of beaunoise, you never close your lips when i kiss your eyes

this tape is 100% right on. i don't really have a grading system, but if i did, this would be the big wazoo.  killer all the way through. highly recommended.

and you shall know jam box fans by the ink

so the other day i was driving through oregon and i stopped for gas. in that state, even at convenience stores, they have to pump it for you. so i get out of the car and this kid about twenty and the little vest comes up to the jeep. somehow, from interacting with him, i got the vibe he was coming out of the joint and was getting it together, and was a little embarrassed to be working in such a position. i could have made all that up, but that's the vibe i got. anyways, as we yakked, i noticed he had a badass tattoo of a jam box on his arm!

review of luna is honey

7.30.12   luna is honey

got this little nugget of gold in the mailbox. here's the scoop. 

rebirth of a jam box

this is a panasonic rx-5025. i bought it off escam for about 40 bucks plus shipping.

sony cfs-500, scored at local thrift shop for 43.60

yesterday, i was making a run of the local thrift shops {there's about 6 within a 8 mile radius} on the motorcycle, one never knows what one will find.

interview with billy sprague from sanity muffin

Q: the two tapes i'm listening to a lot are the hondo's mobius stripsearch and galena's through veils. both are stunning! can we talk a little about the creative process behind these two?