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Tape Quarantine: Sonic Youth’s Sonic Death

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matty McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This time around, they dive deep into Sonic Youth’s dreamlike Sonic Death. In Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise (1985), Eszter Balint’s character strolls […]

Tape Quarantine: The Rapture’s Echoes

04 Oct, 2020

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With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This time around, they dive deep into the genesis of dance punk and the Rapture’s Echoes. I was home last week on vacation, […]

Tape Quarantine: Chorus by Flying Saucer Attack

18 Sep, 2020

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With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This week, they take a look into the evolution of the shoegaze genre through various representative and influential albums. Post-Loveless, the prospect of […]

Tape Quarantine: Blonder Tongue Audio Baton by the Swirlies

17 Sep, 2020

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With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This week, they take a look into the evolution of the shoegaze genre through various representative and influential albums. When Shoegaze begins to […]

Tape Quarantine: Doppelgänger by Curve

16 Sep, 2020

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With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This week, they take a look into the evolution of the shoegaze genre through various representative and influential albums. Loveless might as well have ushered […]

Tape Quarantine: Mee-Eaux by Bethany Curve

14 Sep, 2020

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With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. This week, they takes a look into the evolution of the shoegaze genre through various representative and influential albums. By 1995, Shoegaze was […]

Tape Quarantine: World Fantasy by Foot Village

With our 2019-2020 Internal Music Director under self-quarantine, Matthew McPherson (Wane Lietoc) has taken to their personal tapes, highlighting and documenting the most outstanding in their collection. In the eighth edition of Tape Quarantine, they listen to Foot Village on their new Walkman.  There’s a primal joy to biking, I […]