One of my favorite musical discoveries of the year is this band. They remind me of growing up in the ‘90s and having a secret band you found out about through some photocopied zine or a video clip at the end of a 120 Minutes on an early Sunday morning. I guess the ’90s connection makes sense since Jim Greer used to play bass in Guided By Voices and this is his new gig. Buy the cassette of this album from the fine folks at Burger Records, who deserve a name check all of their own for making tons of very cool cassettes of all kinds of awesomeness available.

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My friend Philip Marshall runs this wonderful, tape-only label called The Tapeworm. It features exclusive contributions and rare recordings of artists like Stephen O’ Malley, Fennesz, Derek Jarman, Dylan Carlson and Stephan Mathieu among others. I designed the cover for the upcoming tape of Chris Connelly, which will come out in August. Right now, I am working on a comic book that will be released on the Tapeworm´s sublabel The Bookworm.

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Ok, now that’s a device I have been waiting for. All my eighties mixtapes that I couldn’t bring myself to throw away were not saved in vain. This new awesome casette to iPod converter makes it possible to safe what’s not available as CD or MP3 these days. Great idea! What took them so long?

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My friend Philip Marshall runs this wonderful tape-only label called The Tapeworm. It features exclusive contributions and rare recordings of artists like Stephen O’ Malley, Fennesz, Derek Jarman, Dylan Carlson, and Stephan Mathieu, among others. I designed the cover for the upcoming tape of Chris Connelly, which will come out in August. Right now, I am working on a comic book that will be released on the Tapeworm’s sub-label, The Bookworm.

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I love it! With the CD now being eclipsed by the MP3, I find myself feeling even more nostalgic for the simple charm of the cassette. Australian artists Andrew Smart and Jared Schmidt create ‘large scale hand-made wooden cassette tapes, routed, sanded, bogged, primed, and painted with a high quality paint finish’. Aha! The perfect way to memorialize my old mix tapes.

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