We Knew It Was Not Going to Be Like This also offers a modernity-shunning mission statement to go with the slop pop
"Lo-fi bedroom garage punk project of Eora/Sydney musician MICHAEL BARKER
stumbling upon The NIGHT KINGS in a sea of stale grunge and alternative pap in 1992 was just what the doctor ordered
The first volume flows from the eerie and levitating "Entrance" to the quirky "Esplanade (Live)"
with an assembled array of wayward equipment stored at his Analogue Hades base
DON'T SUCK, DON'T DIE: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt by Kristin Hersh BOOK Folk We Knew It Was Not200 pages, hardcover. Friend, asshole, angel, mutant, singer songwriter Vic Chesnutt came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess. A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009, including About to Choke, North Star Deserter, and At the Cut. In 2006, NPR placed him in the top five of the ten best living songwriters,