Episode Radioshow: LA, Dreamcenter, Julia
So: I was talking to my friend Julia about music, about our mutual love for Slowdive’s seminal album “Souvlaki” and about this new gig, Sutasi. Back in college, we use to DJ for this independent radio station KSDT Radio for the University of California San Diego. Of the three major universities in San Diego, UCSD was considered the boring-est, the one where all the bio-med students went and, as we joked, Asian Americans…
San Fransico Historic Chinatown
Somewhere towards the end of February, somewhere in the rain, somewhere in San Francisco…
Bleach
From time to time, I’ll invent new words and when I listen to Bleach, I think of the word: Animasical (pronounced Ann-ih-mas-ical). Add !!!!!!!!!!!!
Y’know, it’s only appropriate that they are called Bleach, because it’s that sort of deliciously abrasive, raw fire power that is embraced by another rough diamond music mainstay: Nirvana’s debut “Bleach”. The buzz saw bass and surgical, thrashy sand paper guitars offer a musical directness that is propulsive and true, cutting the bullshit and lending to a sound that is visceral, urgent, and powerful, immediately drawing Fugazi, At the Drive In, the Refused, Nirvana, Sleater Linney, and good old hard core rockabilly references. Damn, it’s good to run to the CD. Frantically…
