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andyzax.bsky.social
Music producer. Adjective deployer. Cultural gerontologist.
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In our present benighted world, the tracklisting for the new Half Man Half Biscuit album feels like more than we deserve. (Especially excited to hear Track 6.)

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An instance of Reverse Mandela Effect: I just tried to convince my mom & dad that the Farrell’s restaurant chain once existed. My sisters and I spent our entire childhoods making them take us there, but my parents now insist they’ve never heard of Farrell’s and have no idea what I’m talking about.

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Anthony Moore activity alert! A pair of savage-sounding 2025 live performances—reclaiming “No Parlez” and “Industrial Drums” from the twin horrors of Paul Young and ‘80s production choices—appeared on Bandcamp a few days ago as a free download.

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I just uttered the sentence “I ordered the Wink Martindale CD,” and I think there’s a very good chance that no one has ever said that out loud before and that no one else will ever say it again.

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Listening to Jed The Fish on KROQ was like having a cool, funny older friend who knew about interesting stuff and was happy to let you hang out with him. I’ve been trying and failing to imitate his uniquely weird pronunciation of “Devo” since I was 15. (Sort of like “dih-VOE?” but not quite.)

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Robert McGinnis was so titanically gifted that he could make bottom-of-the-barrel Elvis movies look cool.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

“He also tells me George’s windbreaker in the accompanying music video is the ‘least flattering article of clothing I’ve ever seen on a human being.’” — @andyzax.bsky.social 😂

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A new piece of writing by @kalebhorton.bsky.social is cause for jubilation. I’m thrilled that I get to make a cameo appearance in this one. Go read it. (Yes, George Harrison really did cut me off in traffic on Beverly Boulevard.)

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After three decades, Lisa Germano’s “Geek The Girl”—a darker-than-dark lost masterpiece—makes its vinyl debut this month. I hope that people will finally discover how tremendous it is.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

The excellent new Throwing Muses album filled me with the urge to hear Limbo for the first time in eons. Couldn’t find a lossless version on my hard drive and I never owned it on vinyl, so I was forced to spelunk through layers of office crud in order to reach…The Forgotten Vault of Old 4AD CDs.

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

This is a great conversation, especially when @andyzax.bsky.social describes “Little Becky’s Christmas Wish” as “claptrap” 🎅🏻

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On a new #HitParadePod —The Bridge my guest @andyzax.bsky.social says the ’60s were full of pop ephemera & identifies one more song category: Vietnam-adjacent hits, from SSgt.Sadler to “Little Becky’s Christmas Wish.” Plus trivia…& a preview that lets you stand under our umbrella (ella, ella…eh…eh).

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

I spend more time pondering unsolvable questions about records than I do actually listening to them. I have no memory of how or where I acquired this LP, but I’ve never been to Marseilles, where, according to the sticker on the sleeve, it originated in 1967. What’s its backstory? I’ll never know.

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The more I think about this, the more certain I am that it will haunt me for the rest of my life.

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LJP: “…and when the guy on the podcast started calling him Mel TORM, that’s when I stopped listening.”

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Michael Rother (& Michael Rother) played almost everything I could reasonably have hoped for, and then some. And getting to hear _those_ guitar sounds applied to _that_ material…wow.

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