“Before the needle hits the groove and the song comes over the speakers, the record is a visual thrill.”
“It might be contradictory to say, but going to record shops was my first real experience with contemporary visual art. It would be a handful of years before I actually went to a proper art gallery. But at 13 years old, living in Eugene, Oregon, a rock and roll innocent and newly in love with all things punk and new wave, my budding passions would routinely bring me to one of the many record shops in town.
These were strange and intimidating places at the time. Staffed by followers of two extremely polarized aesthetic camps; the affable, semi stoned, patchouli scented Hippy, and the angry, techno-colored Punk. Yes, there was cross breeding but it was never openly discussed…”
That’s Sunwolf’s Tom Bunnell from our recent First Date feature preaching the gospel of all we hold dear around here. We’re delighted to premiere Sunwolf’s EP “Angel Eyes” which lands in stores today (10/8) via El Rey Records and was produced by Fugazi’s Jerry Busher.
