May 2012
8 posts
The time I was on a record with Charles Bukowski... →
From the Aquarius Records weekly update...
Shot Forth Self Living was the 1992 debut from this legendary LA shoegaze / dreampop outfit, and was recently included in a massive, super limited 5lp boxset collecting Medicine’s first two albums (as well as an ep and TONS of extras) that came out for Record Store Day 2012, but has now also thankfully been released on its own, as a deluxe double cd, with a whole mess of bonus tracks and...
From the Other Music weekly update...
One of the most innovative bands of the 1990s, Los Angeles’ Medicine was supposed to be some kind of domestic “answer” to My Bloody Valentine. Much harsher and noisier even than Kevin Shields’ gang, they were coming from a different angle altogether. With guitarist Brad Laner and vocalist Beth Thompson’s roots in such bands as Savage Republic and Fourwaycross, plus...
