cabildoquarterly:

You dream of a wild bird

wheeling like a hurricane.

charmed from the warm, bristled sea.

The bird singing,

circling a sea-shell cradle

where you lie waiting for

peace on earth.

A banded sky, brown hawks

diving into mountains of stone.

Beneath you, it…

deadtrendband:

Dead Trend is a fictional band. They were dreamed up in a novel, they were comprised of four fictional people, and they existed in a fictional Midwestern city in an imagined version of the 1980s. And yet, Dead Trend just…

 

cabildoquarterly:

I’ve never thought of Eric Richter—he of Christie Front Drive, Antarctica, the 101 and Golden City – as a dude concerned with chops, or fidelity. It sounds like a knock, but it’s not: in the case of Christie Front Drive, easily my favorite mid/late-nineties emo band, the rudimentary…

deadtrendband:

“Not My Future” on Avant-Avant. 

deadtrendband:

“No Sympathy,” featuring blorp jazz horns. 

cabildoquarterly:

Ben Snakepit

“Snake Pit Gets Old” (Birdcage Bottom Books)

Since 2000, Ben Snakepit has been drawing a three-paneled comic strip a day, chronicling his life, diary-style: he plays in bands, drinks too much, works a job he alternately loves and hates, draws himself as a giant turd on…

deadtrendband:

Dead Trend is releasing a single a week until the release of “False Positive” on May 7th. Here’s “Empty Threat.”

cabildoquarterly:

He called you Alex.

He’s the supervisor who asked you

to read poems at a holiday party, then said,

Don’t get too Black with it. Your name is Alan.

He was light enough to pass,

had a gray high-top fade

and, on Fridays, wore his leather

“Road Dawgs” jacket.

You…

deadtrendband:

…..wherein Dead Trend’s new record “False Positive” is compared to Black Flag’s Damaged (!).

cabildoquarterly:

….there’s that old interviewer where a DJ asks Black Flag “are you a serious band?” Bill Stevenson is right there to say “we’re serious about being effective…..but just because you’re serious about something doesn’t mean you’re serious all the time.” In economics, it’s called the Law Of…