Spring brings warm weather, dreams of summer and a new issue of the Caught in the Crossfire broadside. Topics this year include Robert Curgenven’s epic 2014 LP, Kim Gordon’s memoir and mall record stores circa 2015. As always, it was published for the WFMU Record Fair with the generous support of Forced Exposure Basketball.
Thanks as always for reading.
As a follow up to 2013’s broadsheet, I published another one in 2014 (again, for the 2014 WFMU Record Fair). This time around, I wrote about protest in current music and modes of portable music listening. Artists include The National, Richard Wagner / Jonas Kaufman, Kanye West and Santigold.
If you weren’t able to stop by at my table a the fair, it’s available for download here – if you are partial to simulacra, you can print it out double-sided on a slightly off-white cardstock.
Otherwise, I still have a few left of the original print run for the cost of shipping, if interested please comment here and I will drop you a note via e-mail (your comment will not be made public unless you desire)
Many thanks to Forced Exposure for their continued sponsorship / moral support and those who spared a kind word or two. The next issue will be published for the 2015 WFMU Record Fair in May.
Sorry all for the lack of updates – I just started a new job and am moving this week, meaning I’ve opted into two of the most (statistically) stressful endeavors that people go through.
Normal service should resume towards the end of the year, in the meantime here are my pick-ups from the 2010 record fair in no particular order:
Unsane – Concrete Bed 7″ (Glitterhouse, Germany 1990)
Lung Leg – Hello Sir 10″ (Kill Rock Stars, US 1996)
Elastica – Stutter 10″ (DGC, US 1994)
Moviola – Frantic 10″ (Anyway, US 1995)
Mercury Rev – Yerself Is Steam (Mint Films, UK 1991)
Mercury Rev – Boces (Beggars Banquet, UK 1993)
The Nation of Ulysses – Plays Pretty For Baby (Dischord, US 1992)
Bill Drummond – The Man (Bar/None, US 1989)
Husker Du – Zen Arcade (SST, US 1984)
Versus – The Stars Are Insane (Teenbeat, US 1994)
The Sundays – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (DGC, US 1990)*
Elvis Costello – Spike (Warner Bros, US 1989)
Minutemen – Project: Mersh (SST, US 1985)
The Wedding Present – George Best (Reception, UK 1987)**
Tod Dockstader and James Reichert – Omniphony I (Owl, US 1966)
Lydia Lunch – Hysterie (Widowspeak, US 1986)
Tim Buckley – s/t [mono] (Elektra, US 1966)
The Cure – Faith (Fiction, UK 1981)
Caetano Veloso – Araca Azul (Philips, BR 1973)
The Hafler Trio – Intoutof (KK, BE 1988)
Guided By Voices – Jellyfish Reflector (n/a, UK 1996)
New York Dolls – Too Much, Too Soon (Mercury, US 1974)
Frijid Pink – s/t (Parrot, US 1970)
The Cure – Pornography (A&M, US 1982)
R.E.M. – Out of Time (Warner Bros, US 1991)*
Oasis – Definitely Maybe (Creation, UK 1994)
The Specials – Ghost Town 12″ (Chrysalis, US 1981)
MC5 – Kick Out the Jams (Elektra, US 1969)
The Schramms – Walk To Delphi (OKra, US 1992)
Traveling Wilburys – Volume One (Wilbury, US 1988)
Blast Off Country Style – Pretty Sneaky Sis 7″ (Teenbeat, US 1993)
Wedding Present – Brassneck 12″ (RCA, UK 1990)
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking (Warner Bros, US 1988)
Velocity Girl – Crazy Town 12″ (Sub Pop, DE 1992)
Tamba Trio – 20 Anos de Sucessos (RCA, BR early 1980s)
Flying Saucer Attack – Further (Drag City, US 1995)
*Ms. Crossfire strenuously objected to this post facto
**upgrades current copy
