Christian Molenaar

Category: Music

  • How the Years Condemn

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    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

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

  • Recantate

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

  • Driving the Seven

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    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

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    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

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    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

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

  • Dogs

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

  • Harbinger Winds

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    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

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

Thought:

“The real work of a human being is to communicate the most meaningful experiences and the most decisive passions of his life as precisely as in a biography.”

Béla Bartók