My debut at Cokemachineglow

Islands of Ayle, Hawnay Troof’s sophomore album, is like a group-hug between strangers in a sweltering show space—simultaneously implacable and infectious. Continued at Cokemachineglow...

Plus, I've got two track reviews for you:

"Ya Yumma Weya Baba" by Mulla Abdussaheb: The Muslim leader Abu Ja‘far Al-Mansur founded Baghdad in 762, and for hundreds of years the city served as the glorious capital of the Abbasid caliphate. Then the Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258, ruining everything. Read more...

"Break On Through" by Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog: Cover songs are risky. They can be uninspired, irrelevant, excessively nostalgic, offensive to the original, or all of the above. Read more...

Fun with the news!

Check out this quote, taken from an article published in yesterday’s New York Times. I took out some key terms to make it a mad-lib. Have at it!

“Does the (1.)_______ government really wish to operate in the modern world as an outsider, alienating free countries and trying to rally the world’s dictatorships?” (2.)_____ asked.

1. industrialized nation
2. top government official of rival industrialized nation

Here’s mine:

“Does the American government really wish to operate in the modern world as an outsider, alienating free countries and trying to rally the world’s dictatorships?” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin asked.