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Album Wed May 27 2009

A Different Sort of Remembrance

20081122_29.jpgIn November of last year, former Wilco member Jay Bennett released his album Whatever Happened I Apologize under Creative Commons license for free download via start-up netlabel Rock Proper. Rock Proper was using grassroots funding site Kickstarter to produce an 180g vinyl record of the album. Now, after news of his death over the weekend, the effort has taken on additional poignancy as a way to memorialize Jay. If you're interested in helping make the vinyl pressing happen, you can still contribute.

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Feature Thu Nov 12 2009

She's Money

By Kara Luger

When talking musical influences with Helen Money, it's easy to forget her instrument of choice: cello. She references Bob Mould's Beaster, with its wall of sound and intense, thought-obliterating guitar work. She speaks of The Who and all the crazy rock bands she was exposed to in the '80s. "The stuff I like sounds like life or death," she reasons. And this coming from a woman with a picture of Jimi Hendrix taped to her cello case like he's a saint.

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