The Recoup

SINCE 2013: Books and books and books and books and occasionally other things

December 2013

  • R.I.P Benjamin Curtis

    This is one post that I hate to write. On Sunday, our friend, super-talented multi-instrumentalist and all around awesome fellow Ben Curtis, succumbed to cancer on Sunday, too damn young, at the age of 35. I appreciated the music he made over the years, first with his punk band, UFOFU, then with Tripping Daisy, and… Read more

  • It’s not really necessary to relate to you the significance of today; I trust my readers to know full well what happened today in rock history. In 1981, widow Yoko Ono came out of grieving in the way she knew best: her art. Yoko has always been a polarizing figure, and just because she’d just… Read more