Who Cares Anyway

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Who Cares Anyway: Post-Punk San Francisco & the End of the Analog Age (via @headpress.bsky.social): https://amzn.to/3M3L162 WCA podcast: https://whocaresanywaysf.wordpress.com/podcast Fatal Strategies (new podcast): https://fatalstrategies.substack.com

“At a time when algorithmic music dominates, TFUL282 remain deeply human, chaotic and imaginative.” Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 play a rare show at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall, with support from Bill Orcutt, this October 8 buff.ly/mqWXdAn

Black and white photograph of TFUL282.

"Alan Bishop has long been championed as a founding third of one of the underground’s greatest founts of experimental genre flexibility and unpredictability, Sun City Girls, which he formed with his brother Richard and the late Charles Goucher..."

Graded on a Curve: Alvarius B., <em>Malarial Dream</em> - The Vinyl District

Alan Bishop has long been championed as a founding third of one of the underground’s greatest founts of experimental genre flexibility and unpredictability, Sun City Girls, which he formed with his br...

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The Bruce Loose memoir—entitled Forget It, You Wouldn't Understand Anyway: A Life in Flipper—is still coming out this year, but it's looking more like fall as opposed to spring or summer. The publisher will be Hozac Books. It was a decade in the making. I hope it's worth the wait...

A photo of Bruce Loose holding a microphone between his legs and pretending to amplify the sound of a fart emanating from his nether regions. Photo credit: Vince Anton Stornaiuolo c. 1992.

Something that took me waaay longer to figure out than it should have: When transcribing interview audio on a Mac, you can open the audio file in Voice Memos, and it's so much easier than using iTunes because it has the little 15-second rewind button to backtrack.

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Here's Joe Carducci's take on the late Bruce Loose of Flipper--not just in San Francisco, but during Loose's earlier trek to Portland, too. Includes a couple of excerpts from Loose's upcoming memoir (his collaboration with @leavinghashurt.bsky.social). A punk-freak sneak preview, so to speak...

Not Richard@fauxwoodpaneling.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"...We’re the land of garages and the home of the freeways. Rock and roll is our electric folk music. That isn’t what it is or was in the UK or anywhere elsewhere." -Joe Carducci on San Francisco, Bruce Loose of Flipper and PLENTY else