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Mark Lager

Mark Lager has been writing music reviews for Julian Cope's Head Heritage website since 2007. His music writing also appears in PopMatters. His film writing is featured in CineAction, Cinema Retro, and Film International. His poetry has been published in Chiron Review and Opossum. His translations of the French poet Raoul Ponchon have been published in Circumference, Columbia Journal, and Denver Quarterly. He has also written a Southern Gothic screenplay (To Death With You) and a novella about the crisis in Syria that takes place during 24 hours in Aleppo (The Dust Shall Sing like a Bird).

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Amon Düül II Beatles Mark Lager Music Vinyl Wankers

An Argument with a Hipster Troll: Why Psychedelic Music Does Not Begin and End with the Beatles

April 2020 was the 50th anniversary of the album Yeti (1970) by Amon Düül II, so I celebrated and commemorated by posting my thoughts about this album and sharing a humorous meme where Charlie Brown is about to listen to Yeti. The other character has a thought bubble (“Always Charlie plays strange records, why can’t …

CAN Damo Suzuki Interview Mark Lager

One More Saturday Night: An Interview with Damo Suzuki

You have expressed in past interviews that you prefer playing live rather than recording in a studio. This fits with your vision of music as a synergy between audience and band. Also, your lyrics and vocals emphasize improvisation and repetition. It’s not so much that I prefer one or the other–it is that the concert …

Interview Jacco Gardner Mark Lager Music

Escape, Mystery, Psychological Transformations: An Interview with Jacco Gardner

Jacco Gardner is a Dutch multi-instrumentalist who has been recording and releasing music since 2012. His albums include Cabinet of Curiosities (2013), Hypnophobia (2015), and Somnium (2018). His music has been described as “sonic puzzles” (Under the Radar), “eerie, retro-futurist sound worlds” (Q Magazine), and “an engulfing sonic swirl, recalling the enveloping work of Cluster …

Mark Lager Music Playlist

Mark Lager’s Songs of the Decade part 2 (2015 – 2019)

Listen to this playlist and other gems today on Mark Lager’s radio show ‘Thursday Trips’- streaming online Thursdays 7-8 P.M. (Mountain Time) at: http://www.primcast.com/radio/610946 “Change of the Guard” (Kamasi Washington)An accurately named opening track from the equally appropriately named mammoth, monolithic triple record The Epic, this is incredible jazz for a new generation. Bandleader Kamasi …

Mark Lager Music Playlist

Mark Lager’s Songs of the Decade pt. 1 (2010 – 2014)

Listen to this playlist and other gems today on Mark Lager’s radio show ‘Thursday Trips’- streaming online Thursdays 7-8 P.M. (Mountain Time) at: http://www.primcast.com/radio/610946 “Place at the End of the Street” (Cotton Jones)Perhaps the standout song on the band’s 2010 record Tall Hours in the Glowstream, “Place At The End of the Street” best epitomizes …

Mark Lager Music Playlist

Moon Landing Anniversary Playlist: Space Music/Space Rock (1967 – 1974)

In 1966, Luna 9 and Luna 10 (Soviet Union spacecraft) were the first human made satellites to land on and orbit Earth’s moon. In December 1968 and May 1969, Apollo 8 and Apollo 10 (American spacecraft) were the first missions with astronauts to orbit Earth’s moon. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed. Neil Armstrong …

Interview Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter Mark Lager Music

Amazon Moon ~ An Interview with Jesse Sykes

Jesse Sykes was born on July 17, 1967 in Mount Kisco, New York. She studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design before moving to Seattle in 1990. In Seattle, she met guitarist Phil Wandscher and they formed a band together: Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter.From 2002 – 2011, Sykes and Wandscher released …