“The Height of Music Is Sort Of An Ecstatic State”: Talking Cy Dune with Seth Olinsky

Cy Dune is the most recent incarnation of guitarist/songwriter Seth Olinsky of Akron/Family. I use the word “incarnation” because Cy Dune is more than just a project, it’s an identity, a platform through which Olinsky can not only explore new sounds and styles but also put his ideas about the transcendent power of rock ’n’ roll into practice. For Olinsky, rock ’n’ roll can be more than danceable, sexy fun. It can danceable, sexy and fun to the point of […]

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Hate the Hater?

Through deep reversion therapy I can recall about a two-week window back in my first year of college where I cared about Michelle Shocked’s music. That “Alaska” song was pretty cool. But really, a long-irrelevant musician representing a micro-fad of the last century so easily parodied that from this distance it’s hard to discern between her, Phranc and their Saturday Night Live impersonators, spews some vile, completely dismissible hate rant that demonstrates just how down in the deep end she […]

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