Intro

Alright, so I'm Steve, and I'm back for blogging, round 3.
Back in 2009, I was juiced up on a slowly unfurling world of "out there" tuneage, and decided it was time to cut my teeth with this mundane heap of a blog - its focus resting predominately on goodies like avant-rock, free jazz, noise, and everything else floating around that hip, "heady" little microcosm. About a year or so in, I called it a day, deciding it was a little too restrictive. For whatever reason, the solution that occurred to me was not to create a blog without a specific demography in mind - one in which my muse could carry me wherever - but make one focusing exclusively on everything I was excluding in the first blog. I'm not exactly sure where the logic switch got turned to "off" in my head, but basically, history repeated and here we are.
I might be speaking too vaguely on the issue I just described, so here it is in a nutshell to the few/none that care: My aural intake is split pretty evenly between music roughly contained under the punk banner (powerviolence, pop-punk, hardcore, some folk-punk, even less ska-punk, etc...) and that which you can find reissued on 180gram vinyl imprints (noise, avant-garde, free jazz, krautrock, psychedelic, free improv, etc...). Essentially, I presumed the two halves of my musical spectrum were irreconcilable, and thus, demanded separate spaces for coverage, lest my blog turns into a giant, hideous mesh of disparity appealing to no existing demography. What I forgot to factor in was: who cares? It's not like there's any external reward system built into the blog world - it's just ego-shaft stroking with the occasional comment. If it wasn't, why would I waste my time explaining myself with this giant nap of an introduction? Creating cohesion is not necessarily a matter of narrowing focus, for that matter, but contextualizing and saying fuck-all to the probability of not eliciting a response.
But anyway...
Here's a basic idea of who you'll be reading about here in the future. If any of this sounds like a good time, stick around:
Albert Ayler, The Broadways, Fushitsusha, Defiance Ohio, Harry Pussy, Man Is The Bastard, Sonny Sharrock, No Comment, Acid Mothers Temple, Merzbow, Faust, P.S. Eliot, Otomo Yoshihide, Dead Infection, Rivethead, Don Cherry, Brute Force, Magik Markers, Unrest, Discount, The Incredible String Band, Exuma, Igor Wakhevitch, Big Star, Common Rider, Neanderthal, Sir Lord Baltimore, Pavement, Blue Cheer, Lemuria, Hijokaidan, Weekend Nachos, Bob Dylan, Burning Witch, Sachiko M, Spoonboy, Derek Bailey, and loads of other shit that doesn't really need to fit a specific blog mold.
Hopefully I'll get another writer here, too, and hey, if you're interested, just ask.
On with the dickery, then...