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    Making Music: Conversations with Record Producers John Baccigaluppi and Larry Crane

      My first encounter with the Tape Op universe happened when I picked up a magazine that was laying around Mike Pack’s studio, Revolution Sounds, in Chattanooga TN. This was twenty-plus years ago. Listening to Landlord track “More Trouble” on Beneath the Wheel, and being frustrated that they didn’t do the ending phrase twice. I […]

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  • Mars Live at the Village Gate LP

    For a band that released exactly six songs while they were an active concern (more or less from 1975 to 1978), the sheer amount of archival MARS material that has surfaced in the 21st century is head-spinning. In the last fifteen years alone, we’ve gotten LPs of two different live sets, a 3xLP (!!!) of […]

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  • Off Contact Can You? LP

    Before today, I only knew of NO DIRECTION from Rapid City, South Dakota, so it is exciting to hear new bands from that state! OK, OK, OK, OK. I didn’t know what to expect and I know a lot of folks would say that this harkens back to the angular and danceable post-punk hits of […]

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  • The Ichi-Bons Little Lil / The Witch 7″

    Toronto trio ICHI-BONS play ’50s rock’n’roll the old-fashioned way, pulling from early rock, surf, and rockabilly. For this 45, they brought in Spencer Evoy, who leads London’s MFC CHICKEN, to blow the horn. The A-side is “Little Lil,” a 1959 rockabilly number originally cut by MEL DORSEY, and the flip is “The Witch,” the SONICS’ […]

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MRR Radio #1993

On this week’s MRR Radio, Jennifer plays some new gems!

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INTRO
OUST – Idiots
EXHIBIT A
SCIENCE MAN – Top of the Chain
TENSE – Convergence
GIMIC – The Devil’s Rose
RAT CAGE – Grass is Greener
NEKRA – All We Got Is Us
ESKUPA – Fatal
EXHIBIT B
FUGITIVE BUBBLE – Strand of Luck
DIAL PAINTERS – Double Your Efforts
GOTRI – Bludgeoned Nazi Scum
SNOUT FEVER – Collecting Dust
REJEKTS – Idiot City
EXHIBIT C
SPREAD JOY – Vindicated By
POWER PANTS – Don’t Touch Me
BIG MODERN – Gatekeep
SMIRK – Perfect World
BASILISKO – Destino
EXHIBIT D
CIGARETTE CAMP – Bumper Stickers
TWISTED TEENS – Guided Thunder
HOSPITAL JOB – Out of Phase
GLEETCH – Nightmares
OUTRO
MAN AFRAID – Cemetery Ridge
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