(Magnetic South) Pardon me if you’ve heard
this rant from me already, but a few years back I almost sprained my arm
patting myself on the back for getting the perfect amount of proper sized
storage boxes, alphabetizing, and neating shelving what I was sure was my now
finite collection of cassette tapes. Then the hipster cassette revolution
happened, which wouldn’t have been such a bad thing if so many of the tapes
weren’t SO GOOD. I had to keep
album-length tapes of unreleased or fresh material from brilliant noise,
garage, and punk bands, hadn’t I? Now teetering stacks of unboxed tapes mock my
neat row of boxes, and to make matters more ridiculous, I actually have to have a favorite new school cassette label?!? And
by “have to” I mean that if a label releases a sitar Banana Splits tribute,
bands as badass as Apache Dropout and Open Sex, and my new fave girl group (the
sometimes masked Tsunamis, who do
a tribute to the dancing skills of my editor Jake on this compilation…or
dare I say “mix tape”) what are ya gonna do? Damn you Magnetic South, why do you have to be so
magnetic!
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