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RIBS: Junk Dynasty Leaderboard

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date June 16, 2025
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RIBS (photo: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

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Tags At the Drive-In, Birds of Avalon, Carl Saff, Charles Bukowski, David Mueller, Drag Sounds, Faang Street, Finn Cohen, Haruki Murakami, Josh Germeroth, Mike Wallace, Missy Thangs, RIBS, The White Octave, Third Uncle Records, velvet underground, Verity Den

Books

Existential Burdens: Haruki Murakami’s ‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls’

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date December 13, 2024
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Haruki Murakami (photo: moshed)

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Tags Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Haruki Murakami, Harvill Secker

Bad History Month: God Is Luck

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date November 1, 2023
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Bad History Month (photo: Ben Rector)

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Tags Bad History Month, David Foster Wallace, Exploding In Sound, Haruki Murakami, Holy Sons, Jack London, Pile, Prewn, Sean Sprecher

Empty House: Secret Suburbia

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 11, 2023
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Empty House - Secret Suburbia

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Tags Artifacts & Uranium, Broken Social Scene, Earthling Society, Empty House, Fred Laird, Haruki Murakami, john peel, Mike Vest, Taras Bulba, The Fall, Wormhole World Records

Features Interviews

Karen & Peter Interview: “The writing is grounded very powerfully in the music”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 10, 2022
7 Comments on Karen & Peter Interview: “The writing is grounded very powerfully in the music”

Karen & Peter

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Tags Benjamin Myers, George Orwell, Haruki Murakami, Ivan The Tolerable, Jaded Azurites, Karen & Peter, Karen Schoemer, Mike Griffin, Mike Watt, Minutemen, Mortuus Auris & the Black Hand/ MAbH, Oli Heffernan, Peter Taylor, Sky Furrows, SST, Tape Drift

The Bobby Lees: Bellevue

The Bobby Lees (photo credit: from the artist's Bandcamp page)

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Tags Bully, Dead Cross, Haruki Murakami, Ipecac Recordings, Kendall Wind, Macky Bowman, Mike Patton, Nick Casa, Sam Quartin, The Bobby Lees, The Cramps, The Gun Club, The Reigning Sounds

Clinic: Fantasy Island – “a new lease of life”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 20, 2021
4 Comments on Clinic: Fantasy Island – “a new lease of life”

Clinic (photo credit: Sentinel)

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Tags Ade Blackburn, Clinic, Domino Recordings, Haruki Murakami, The Kinks

Books

Haruki Murakami: a buyer’s guide into the Japanese author’s alternative universe

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date July 17, 2020
13 Comments on Haruki Murakami: a buyer’s guide into the Japanese author’s alternative universe

Haruki Murakami – (photo credit: via the artist’s Goodreads page)

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Tags 1Q84, Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood, Wind Up Bird Chronicle