As 2013 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
It can be daunting, being in a band that winds up one of the influential acts of its day. If Boston’s Come, one of the most acclaimed groups to emerge from the early-’90s indie scene, had released nothing but debut album Eleven:Eleven, its importance for musicians in that scene would likely have been established anyway. Hard, noirish, frequently violent in its approach to blues patterns and styles slowed to a molasses-drip pace, few bands hit as heavy as Come. And few musicians, in Come or elsewhere, came as hard to the stage and the studio as Thalia Zedek. Now comes Via (Thrill Jockey), a record that finds her striking off in new aesthetic and collaborative territory. Zedek will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new feature on her.
Zedek: I learned this one early on in my relationship with my current (and longtime partner) H.K., who insisted that I credit her for this. Anyways, disgusted by my penchant for buying absolute swill when sent to the “packy” for wine, she taught me this simple trick for picking out a good bottle. Feel on the bottom of the bottle where there should be an indentation. The deeper this “nipple” is, the better the wine will probably be. A flat bottom? Not a great omen (in many things I feel, boats included). Although it is sometimes embarrassing to be caught caressing the bottoms of bottles of wine in public, this technique really does work!
Video after the jump.
