By Bradley Lau | Underground Mirror Before I ever saw the Pacific, I knew exactly how it sounded. It sounded like Surfin’ U.S.A. spinning on…
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by Clemency Graves, Music & Memory Editor-at-Large It started, as these things often do, with an unpacked suitcase and a song. I’m should be packing…
By Declan Marlowe, Musicologist (Excerpt from “Absinthe Makes the Frequencies Go Fonder,” transcribed from mold-blotted Moleskine journal recovered from an abandoned Masonic Hall) The board…
Music Dispatch – Clemency Grave It started with a stumble: 3 a.m., half a bottle of red, and a YouTube rabbit hole that I sort…
[Editor’s Note] When the curator at the University of Michigan archives found this “dissertation” in a box labeled Overly Earnest Student Submissions, I laughed out…
THE RETURN POLICY by Clemency Grave | Staff Cynic & Vinyl Apologist Record Rack, Thursday Afternoon The bell over the Record Rack door flicks like…
Excerpt from “Séance in 5/4 Time,” found in the scorched spiral notebook of Declan Varn, Music Occult Correspondent “Spirits of rhythm and reason,” I muttered,…
by Clemency Grave | Staff Cynic & Music Review Review of ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies II’ by London Suede Let’s get one thing out of the way:…
A Review of “My Generation (2025)” at the Toyota Center by Clemency Grave | Staff Cynic & Music Review HOUSTON- Let’s get one thing clear:…
An Open Letter to Brenda Lee Wilkins from Rhonda Lynn Monroe Underground Mirror – April 2025 Brenda Lee Wilkins, It’s been nearly 40 years since…