Dear Donna Donna, I hope you are well. I’m still getting used to writing in plain English after so long. (I still dream in Code, though.) As you may have heard, they gave me a spot on the Memorial Committee, which means endless meetings where only the most ridiculous compromises have any hope of getting approval. And compromises don’t get much more ridiculous than what we’ve come up with for the Federal Memorial, which is to add 91 days to the calendar. For now we’re calling it The New December, which I will admit has a nice ring to it. On the civic level, there are more modest plan… read more
Dear Donna Donna, I hope you are well. I’m still getting used to writing in plain English after so long. (I still dream in Code, though.) As you may … read more
Dear Donna Donna, I hope you are well. I’m still getting used to writing in plain English after so long. (I still dream in Code, though.) As you may have heard, they gave me a spot on th… read more
Fol Chen makes soundtracks to a future that never was. To listen is to leave the comfort of nostalgia and land with both feet in a bolder 21st century. Since 2009, the Los Angeles-area collective has created their signature sound from field recordings and an electronic junk drawer, splicing compound beats and sending warped vocal transmissions. Led by producers Samuel Bing and Julian Wass, Fol Chen’s first two records, PART I: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made (Asthmatic Kitty, 2009) and PART II: The New December (Asthmatic Kitty, 2010), cemented the band’s place as peddlers of dark p… read more
Fol Chen makes soundtracks to a future that never was. To listen is to leave the comfort of nostalgia and land with both feet in a bolder 21st century. Since 2009, the Los Angeles-area coll… read more
Fol Chen makes soundtracks to a future that never was. To listen is to leave the comfort of nostalgia and land with both feet in a bolder 21st century. Since 2009, the Los Angeles-area collective has created their signature sound from … read more