Know yer history. The Akron Sound is one of dissonance, of Rust Belt desolation, of mutant R’n’B, of the wind whipping through your hair on a cold January night’s walk back to the boarding house from the bar where all you have is frosty breath in your scarf and a sense of humor to keep you warm. It’s cope music. It’s warped-hope music. It’s wracked. It’s jazzed. It’s intelligent. It comes from a bullet wound part of the soul, and it’s fucking badass.

I am less into the Rubber City Rebels and Bizzaros side of things so here are some slices from the more artsy side that particularly tickle my brain.

(I have yet to watch the other documentary about the later Akron Sound music (including Chi-Pig), If You’re Not Dead, Play, but that will surely happen soon.)

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