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By the late 1970s, Sonny Sharrock was an obscurity living in quasi-retirement. As jazz was fusing with rock and an emergent avant-garde in the decade prior, Sharrock was a sideman on several classics (including an uncredited appearance on Miles Davis’s A Tribute to Jack Johnson) and recorded a defining

Casket was another gem of an AbsolutePunk discovery from my freshman year of college. My computer had 500GB of built-in storage and I carried an iPod classic with me everywhere I went, which meant that I: a) kept my entire mp3 library on my computer's whirring hard drive

In summer 2011 I got certified as a waterfront lifeguard. The final test was designed to simulate rescuing a swimmer who’d sunk below a lake surface. Students would jump from the diving board, swim a dock-length, and dive for a ten-pound weight suspended by a yellow rope tied to

One recent afternoon, after feeling a nagging unease that too much of my recent music consumption was coming from the homepages of major music websites, I went diving around the Bandcamp page of one of my favorite weirdo DIY labels: Rok Lok Records. I got hip to Rok Lok from

trib·u·tar·y /ˈtribyəˌterē/ noun: tributary; plural noun: tributaries 1. a river or stream flowing into a larger river or lake. What is Tributary? Tributary is a newsletter focused on music that isn’t available on most streaming platforms (i.e. Spotify, Apple Music, etc.) Why am I starting