Christian Molenaar

Author: cdmolenaar

  • Musaceae Equinox

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    My new album Musaceae Equinox is finally here. Read more

  • Further into the Corner

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    Beginning with last year’s Translation Has Failed album No Duality, Nathan Hubbard’s been on a tear releasing one album per month in the lead-up to his fiftieth birthday in May, ranging from free jazz to doom metal to music for large percussion ensemble, all reflective of “an overflowing archive and dreams of legacy,” as Hubbard Read more

  • Darkness Promises

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    Aside from Matt Wascovich, Scarcity of Tanks that night included Weasel Walter, Kid Millions, Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus, John Morton from the electric eels and Nick from Necking. Read more

  • Bloodlines

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    Eventually it became clear that they were leaving the mountain landscapes behind. Would they recognize them if they passed that way again? (Not that they had any plans to do so). They had folders full to bursting with souvenirs. “I can still see it in my mind’s eye…” ran the stock phrase. But why the Read more

  • The Arteries of Trade

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    The most popular all-year explosive! Read more

  • The Future Sound of Rumford

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    Just shy of three decades ago: Lucas Abela’s first US tour, sharing the stage with Deerhoof and Crank Sturgeon at the legendary Geno’s in Maine. Abela had his first ever snowball fight, during which he pegged an unmarked police car with a snowball. Read more

  • Simple Answers

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    If my Contact page is dead, how did this end up in my spam? Read more

  • Big Gas Cycles

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    1998? Read more

  • 2025

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    I started the year with no greater plans than a set at the Brown Building alongside Amy Cimini and Sean Jones playing my songs for voice and cello. Somehow that turned into a full twelve months of gigging and recording, the busiest year I’ve had post-lockdown. Below, the highlights (and lowlights): Read more

  • Comic as Christmas

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    Merry Christmas from Babs, aka Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife. Read more

Thought:

“Once you think you’ve found freedom — someone builds a prison round it. You can’t get out. All you can do is furnish it as attractively as possible.”

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