Christian Molenaar

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  • How the Years Condemn

    May 12, 2025

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    Music

    Those Darn Gnomes’ first album The Years turns a decade old today. In honor of our least-loved record, please, hit play on a forgotten experimental metal oddity and take a look back at the early days of a local band at a key point in their (so-called) development. Read more

  • Vanity Sounds the Horn

    June 28, 2024

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    Music

    The last Those Darn Gnomes album, Calling Whitetails to a Tuned Bow, turns five years old today. Read more

  • Recantate

    June 25, 2024

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    Music

    I’m back from the desert with some new (old) songs. Read more

  • Driving the Seven

    June 8, 2024

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    Music

    Today is Tall Can’s birthday. (Don’t ask how old he is. He doesn’t know.) Read more

  • The Idea of Anything to Be Done

    April 16, 2024

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    Music

    The Idea of Anything to Be Done, a two-part solo guitar improvisation consisting of “Myself Creating What I Saw” and “Let No Name Ever Pass Our Lips,” is out today. Read more

  • Laughlin Cantate

    February 13, 2024

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    Music

    As keen readers of this blog would know (if there were any), this time last year Lucas and I drove out to Laughlin to visit his dad and do some work in Bullhead City, with digressions into Chino, Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms, Oatman and basically anything else planted on the long stretch of the 10… Read more

  • Near Death

    January 19, 2024

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    Music

    Joe’s new single “Near Death,” featuring a video I made for him, is out now. Read more

  • Dogs

    November 17, 2023

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    Music

    I’m putting out new music under my own name for the first time in three years today. Read more

  • Harbinger Winds

    September 9, 2022

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    Music

    The latest Gridfailure and Megalophobe collaboration, Harbinger Winds, is out today through the estimable Nefarious Industries. I played organ on the massive closing track alongside Mac Gollehon (Duran Duran/Chaka Khan/Buddy Rich/David Bowie/Blondie/Onyx), Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum/Ionophore), Sally Gates (Titan To Tachyons/Orbweaver), Morgan Evans (Walking Bombs), Matt Bacon, Rosa Henriquez, Rob Levitt, and Denise Fillion. Read more

  • Harsh Metal

    April 9, 2021

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    Music

    The new Crowhurst album Harsh Metal is available now. Read more

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Thought:

“Onstage, I’ve been hit by a grapefruit, beer cans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, mandies, quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.”

Iggy Pop