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Apr
15
Free Stuff
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Some free stuff isn’t worth the price. Here’s one example of that.
Some free stuff is a minefield with the occasional ripe, delicious strawberry. Behold, one such a thing.
Some free stuff is worth paying money for. Read more
Apr
13
Neko Case: This Tornado Loves You
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Somewhere on internet, Neko Case was asked of her song, “So, is ‘This Tornado Loves You’—is it about how violent and tempestuous love can be?” or something to that effect. Neko’s reply, God bless her, went along these lines: “No, it’s about a tornado being in love with someone.” That is, she meant the song literally. Read more
Apr
13
Justin Ringle, a Moscow, Idaho native and the center of Portland folk band Horse Feathers, had an interview last year with the SoCal blog Aquarium Drunkard, an interview that managed to ask nearly every question a Stereopathic interviewer might have asked him. To wit: Read more
Apr
8
The Birds on a Wire Folk Series
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Poster by David Dalbey
Apr
6
Richard Buckner: Ariel Ramirez
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Richard Buckner’s cover for his 1998 record, Since, shows nine pictures of a candle flame blowing out. The record’s third song, Ariel Ramirez, is the sound of that candle wavering in the breeze, his baritone and guitar fighting against a pointless and paralyzing loss. Buckner’s lyrics suggest more than they tell; it’s almost the sound of them that’s more important than the words themselves. Put Ariel on/And smoke away the night/And do the white net crawl/Until the hammers fall. A piano joins Richard, Read more
Apr
1
In a spot near Tombstone, Arizona, well above the San Pedro River a prospector named Hank Williams told everyone that he’d had a mule break loose towards the camp of Schieffelin and Gird. Tearing after it he saw the rock on the ground that the mule’s halter chains had scraped off. Silver ore, right on the surface of the ground. Leaving the mule, he ran back to camp for tools, and set to staking a claim around the silver.
Gird, however, said that the claim was his, and contested Williams’ claim. Williams didn’t put up much of a fight, Read more
Mar
23
Laura Gibson very kindly risked carsickness and the bleary-eyed, sleepless rigors of living in a tour vehicle while en route to a several-show stint at SXSW to answer some questions we posed to her in anticipation of her upcoming show here this Friday. Laura, touring in support of her much-beloved by Stereopathic record, Beasts of Seasons, alights upon Moscow alongside Seattle’s Pablo Trucker and Troubletown (also known as Jenna Conrad). An elegant and deliberate record, Beasts of Seasons piqued our curiosity not just about Laura’s songwriting and recording processes, but also about the Read more
