Music
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Episode #341: The Interplanetary Acoustic Team!
Episode 341 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to Brian Turner & Jared Silvia about making a beautiful, experimental poetic album of space ballads and duets. Episode 341 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about… Continue reading
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Episode 334: Ben Gwin & Jared Silvia!
Episode 334 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk to novelist Ben Gwin about postmodern satire, addiction, whether MFAs ruin or sustain writers, and for some reason I insist that he needs to write poetry, plus I talk… Continue reading
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Episode 326: Patrick Greene!
Episode 326 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk with the Orlando legend, Patrick Greene, about the power of being an autodidact, the importance of curiosity outside of one’s area of expertise, and the struggles of trying to… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #11: Machine Head Dialogue
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #11 by Stephen McClurg and John King Deep Purple: Machine Head (1972) In my weekly blog post, I discussed the recent circumstances that led me to hearing Deep Purple’s classic album for the first time. John won’t shut up about it. JOHN: Turns out a “machine head” is the part… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10: Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #10 by Stephen McClurg Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones: The Sporting Life (1994) […]For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying. ~Rainer Maria Rilke,… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #9: Stump: Quirk Out (1986)
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #9 by Stephen McClurg Stump: Quirk Out (1986) Stump, a band difficult to categorize, is compared most frequently to Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Stump formed right around the time that Beefheart’s last official album, Ice Cream for Crow (1982), came out, so maybe something in the ether passed… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #8 : Oumou Sangaré: Mogoya (2017)
Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #8 by Stephen McClurg Oumou Sangaré: Mogoya (2017) Innovation in pop music seems connected to production rather than musicianship. I hear great sounds and textures sometimes in pop music, but it’s rare I get excited by musical performance. Maybe that’s my own failing in not putting in the listening hours… Continue reading
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Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #6: John Maus: Screen Memories
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #6 by Stephen McClurg John Maus: Screen Memories (2017) The less music is a language sui generis to them, the more does it become established as such a receptacle. The autonomy of music is replaced by a mere socio-psychological function. Music today is largely a social cement. […] Individuals of… Continue reading
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Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #3: Sparks: Hippopotamus (2017)
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #3 by Stephen McClurg Sparks: Hippopotamus (2017) The writers and composers work the street. Bach’s new score is crumpled in his pocket, Dante sways his ass-cheeks to the beat. ~ from “Hollywood Elegies” by Bertolt Brecht (trans. Adam Kirsch) Sparks has maintained their standards and strangeness throughout more than a… Continue reading
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Lost Chords & Serenades Divine #2: Junk Genius, Ghost of Electricity (1999)
Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #2 by Stephen McClurg Junk Genius, Ghost of Electricity, (1999) Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off … The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face ~… Continue reading
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