Metal Machine Music

Noise, glorious noise A couple of weeks ago I watched CBGB, the movie about the night club on the Bowery where punk took its first baby steps. In the first scene, John Holstrom is sitting at a desk doing something and listening to… something. I had no idea what it was, it sounded very bizarre but I found it oddly appealing. Legs McNeil comes into the room and says something like “Oh gawd, you’re listening to that feedback album again…” I intended to google to find out what it was when the movie was over,…

Love It Or Hate It

not exactly Mozart, but hey, that wasn’t Lou’s goal anyway… Assuming that you can appreciate EXTREME drone music (which most people couldn’t back in 1975),this is a rather beautiful and bracing listening experience. This was heavily influenced by LaMonteYoung, the legendary avant-garde composer. Long before Dylan Carlson and his Earth cohorts, orthe Sunn people, the unparalleled original. Challenging, more than a little misanthropic, but youcould say the same about Miles Davis’s radically reconsidered ON THE CORNER, too. For…