The Recoup

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

A Conversation With…

  • Guest Author: The American Analog Set’s Andrew Kenny: “Dim Stars” was an important song for the American Analog Set. Before the band began, we drug our instruments and the recently purchased 1/2 inch 8-track up to my family’s lake cabin for a long weekend. It was a lot of goofing off, but we also wrote Read more

  • In 1985, a 19-year old Florida kid living at home scraped together some money and pressed a twelve-inch record of his bedroom recordings, released under the name Projekt Electronic Amerika. That young man was named Sam Rosenthal, and in just a few years time, he would go from fledgling bedroom musician to the well-known founder of Read more

  • Guest author Eric Matthews: “Yes, Everyone,” that’s a good one to talk about.  Someday I will get the demo version of the song, so you can hear the original intent.  That said, the released version is a stunner.  The song is very dark lyrically. I was reading Revelations and stuff about the coming  Anti-Christ, the Read more