escape from evil

video: Lower Dens – Company / Société Anonyme
video: Lower Dens – Company / Société Anonyme
video: Lower Dens – Company / Société Anonyme
Lower Dens perform two highlights from their incredible record Escape From Evil, live at Pehrspace in L.A. Directed by Erik Barnes. Download the recordings for free here. Catch Lower Dens live in the UK starting on Sunday, as they start their massive world tour with a handful of shows with the also amazing Fear of Men...
Lower Dens takeover: A Different Kind of Tension
Lower Dens takeover: A Different Kind of Tension
Lower Dens takeover: A Different Kind of Tension
This album has really informed my playing and thinking about music recently, specifically the way they take a simple idea and push it and push it until it sort of breaks into something new. I feel connected to the way this album uses punk and pop, desperation and exuberance in an honest way that still feels refreshing to me decades after its creation...
Lower Dens takeover: David Wojnarowicz
Lower Dens takeover: David Wojnarowicz
Lower Dens takeover: David Wojnarowicz
Along with people like Kathy Acker and Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz worked to bring gay culture out of its campy, self-mocking state and turn it into something that could stand beside as opposed to in opposition to straight culture...
Lower Dens takeover: Ernest Becker – Escape From Evil
Lower Dens takeover: Ernest Becker – Escape From Evil
Lower Dens takeover: Ernest Becker – Escape From Evil
We're all running from something, which Becker identifies as death without meaning or legacy. That the source of so much of our culture ought to lie in fear is both sad and eminently forgivable. There's nothing more human than this. Our music tries to sound how it might feel to forgive this essential fault in ourselves and in all of us...
Lower Dens takeover: David Bowie live at Nassau coliseum (1976)
Lower Dens takeover: David Bowie live at Nassau coliseum (1976)
Lower Dens takeover: David Bowie live at Nassau coliseum (1976)
The light of Bowie's stardom often obscures the names of his formidable side people. In this celebrated live show (listen to the full show here) it is impossible to ignore the energy and inventiveness of Carlos Alomar, George Murray and Dennis Davis, the core of the band which helped cement his reputation in the seventies...
Lower Dens takeover: Richard Thompson
Lower Dens takeover: Richard Thompson
Lower Dens takeover: Richard Thompson
Richard Thompson is a remarkably fluid guitar player. His rhythm playing sneaks in lots of passing lines and his solos often contain material from a variety of idioms without sounding forced. His tones change with the times but are always in good taste and unique to him...

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