Bill Callahan who originally recorded as Smog, as with many of these ‘Unfamous‘ things will be familiar to some, but hopefully just off the beaten track for some others. Some facts about Bill Callahan: Recurring themes in his work include horses, bodies of water, and teenagers. He’s a huge fan of Jandek, who influenced a lot of his...
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It’s quite possible I’ll get accused of going on about David Axelrod, but I only just started listening to him! Of course I’d come across his stuff as being one of the focuses of DJ Shadow’s rabid sampling of diverse sources, but it wasn’t until I actually sat down and listened to Songs Of Experience all the way through that I...
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Don Caballero (Don Cab) are a band I’ve been putting off writing about, because gushing reviews get tiresome pretty quickly, especially if you don’t agree. Having a chat with a couple of colleagues who are serious cassetteheads the other day, I realised Don Cab on the whole aren’t that well known. And so I figured probably even less so...
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I’m not sure if Arthur Russell counts as unfamous – you’ll either have heard of him, and probably have everything he ever released or be thinking, yup, unfamous. Regardless of how controversial a choice for this unfamous category, Arthur Russell was one of the original electronic music experimenters, as well as an extraordinary cellist...
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Named after Scott Walker’s fourth album, this band of electronic cowpunks were active from the late ’90s to mid ’00s. When live they had a band with as many as 11 members, but the core of the group was Scott Blixen, John Moody & Ed Tilley. Curiously they’re another East London band, presumably before the magnifying glass of...
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Ghosts and Vodka are yet another spin off project from the mighty Cap’n Jazz. The Chicago scene would look very different without Cap’n Jazz at it’s heart, especially with the contributions of the Kinsella brothers (not in this project), Sam Zurick and Victor Villareal (guitars for Ghosts and Vodka). Short of drawing a vast map of the...
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