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…

 

deadtrendband:

“Not My Future” on Avant-Avant. 

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“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…

Thanks to Rob at Yourband.info for this nice review of Dead Trend’s forthcoming longplayer “False Positive.”

Michael at Awkward Sound with a review of Dead Trend’s “Not My Future.”

deadtrendband:

“Not My Future,” off the upcoming Dead Trend CD “False Positive.”

cabildoquarterly:

I’ve caught so much shit from the older generation for writing an installment of the 33 1/3 series on the Minutemen. How could I possibly know what it was like Back In The Day when I wasn’t there? The simple answer, of course, is (and always has been) I have no idea. All I know is “Double…

A flyer for Katie Lattari and me in Chicago 11/10.

My debut novel is now available for Kindle, thanks to the nice folks at Three Rooms Press.