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Nathan Hess - Nathan Hess

Multi-instrumentalist Nathan Hess came to Richmond via Ohio.  He has just released a self-titled album recorded at Sound of Music Studios with the renowned John Morand.  The blues/folk tracks are an in-depth listen in Americana.  Tom Vassallo provided additional instrumentation (slide guitar, harmonica, et al.).

Stay tuned for info on a release party…


Museum of endangered sounds →

Say you miss the sound of a good Nokia ringtone. Or let’s suppose that the sound of a gameboy is lacking from your life. And I can definitely understand how you haven’t heard to a discman since Osama Bin Laden was still alive. You can find all of these and much more in the Museum of Endangered Sounds. Audio archiving by some fine curators named Phil, Mary and Greg. 


So many beautiful shades of color in a black and white music video. 


Fastidious, unbelievables, beaux, lions or dandies: whichever label these men claim for themselves, one and all stem from the same origin, all share the same characteristic of opposition and revolt; all are representatives of what is best in human pride, of that need, which is too rare in the modern generation, to combat and destroy triviality. That is the source, in your dandy, of that haughty, patrician attitude, aggressive even in its coldness. Dandyism appears especially in those periods of transition when democracy has not yet become all-powerful, and when aristocracy is only partially weakened and discredited.

— Charles Baudelaire, The Dandy, From “The Painter of Modern Life”, 1863

(Source: thedandy.org)