Long Player

The long pieces. Interviews that ran over, arguments we could not make in eight hundred words, and the occasional thing that took four months.

The year of the empty Tuesday

Four rooms in this city can hold a band on a weeknight. Two of them are now booking Fridays only, and the touring circuit that made everything we write about is quietly closing from the middle out.
The year of the empty Tuesday

The band that only plays basements

The Long Wednesdays have turned down every room above ground for three years. It reads as a stunt until you look at what the rooms above ground were offering them.
The band that only plays basements

How we hear a record now

Nobody sits down with a record any more, including us, including the people who make them. An argument about what that has done to the second side.
How we hear a record now