Launchpad graciously said I could post to this column a while back, and today is the day he may come to regret that generosity. I stumbled on A Faulty Chromosome back in the heyday of the MP3 blog. Every few … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: A Faulty Chromosome

Welcome to the fifth installment of Lo-Fi Hi-Fives; I’m trying something experimental this week, so things might be a tad verbose and not make a lot of sense. I’ll need this outlook to cover Blorp Esette, an impentrable collection of … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi Fives: Los Angeles Free Music Society–Blorp Esette

“Turning personal vendetta and small-minded revenge tactics into eventual cult status, Sebadoh!”–from “Showtape ’91,” a collection of hype tracks made by Sebadoh. Welcome to the rocky IVth installment of Lo-Fi Hi-Fives. Released the same month as Nirvana’s Nevermind, seBADoh’s III … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: Sebadoh-III

“If you wanna know if you’ve written a hit, play it for kids.”–Monica Lynch Welcome to the third installment of Lo-Fi Hi-Fives, where we favor tiny gyms over large stadiums. Today, we take a look at Innocence and Despair, the … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: The Langley Schools Music Project-Innocence & Despair

(Note: This video is missing the last three songs) “I’m Davey Jones, enjoy the music!” Welcome to the second installment of Lo-Fi Hi-Fives, an examination of music produced outside of the traditional studio system. Today: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti’s arresting … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti- House Arrest

Welcome to the first installment of Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: a column where I examine Lo-Fi albums albums in search of gold nuggets from rivers of tape hiss. Lo-fi (“low fidelity”) music is recorded at a lower quality than the usual contemporary … Continue reading Lo-Fi Hi-Fives: The Moldy Peaches-The Moldy Peaches