CUT OUT KID

Issues


  • Analyzing Phoenix’s ‘Lost and Found’: Relationship Insights

    “Lost & Found?” Are you a keeper or should you be put back in the box?

  • James & Tim Booth Sing The Pronouns On Yummy

    “Raise your glass/Life’s a fucking miracleWe’re made of light/Our form is physicalIf we love life/Life loves reciprocalCelebrate, She, he, we, theyWelcome sign (She, he, they, we)” – “Life’s A Fucking Miracle” – Tim Booth The eighteenth studio album, Yummy, by the British rock band James, marks another milestone in their illustrious career. I was stopped dead in…

  • LCD Soundsystem – Day 2 At The Aragon – 05/25/24

    My biggest takeaway from LCD’s Saturday night show, Day 2 of the Soundsystem’s four night residency at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom, is that they are now a jam band. That’s my closing statement, does the jury have any questions? At this point of music blogging and reviewing, I’m left to pick out the biggest takeaways instead…

  • PART II – CONCLUSION: CUT-OUTS AND WHAT THEY MEAN

    In Part I, we discussed how labels (and entities operating as labels doing vanity pressings) ended up building a problem by releasing entirely too much product for customers to buy and absorb. The end result were additional costs that labels had hoped the distributors would prevent by taking on so much product for sale…paying for…