Slighty Feral Media: The Raccoon's Cabinet of Curiosities

FIELD NOTE // METAL IS NOT A SPECIES Metal Mayhem Meltdown at Warehouse on Broadway with Third Wounded Man, Pure American Filth, Into Existence, and Waking Demons By Alethea F. Mehdipour — Slightly Feral Media METAL IS NOT A SPECIES Metal is such a vague statement. Metal means many things. There are thrash metal creatures fueled by speed, sharp edges, and repetitive neck injuries. Doom metal sounds like an ancient structure collapsing during a thunderstorm. Death metal growls. Black metal appears to have emerged from a cold forest deeply disappointed in organized religion. Sludge metal is something extremely heavy dragging itself out of contaminated water. Industrial metal located machinery and intends to use it. Nu metal returned wearing very large pants. Groove metal made movement heavier. Metalcore brought breakdowns. Power metal brought swords. Possibly metaphorical swords. The raccoon does not assume when it come to these things.   Each subgenre tends to draw a slightly differ...

FIELD NOTE // THE BAND NAMES CHANGED. THE HUMANS KEPT PLAYING. Combo Diablo, the Doo-Dads, and a Slightly Feral Journey Through Kansas City Music History By Alethea F. Mehdipour — Slightly Feral Media THE SHIRT The first thing the raccoon saw was the drummer’s shirt. THE GRAND EMPORIUM. The letters reached into an old, poorly labeled section of the archives, grabbed an entire collection of memories, and dumped them directly onto the floor. The raccoon may have squealed. Not a dignified, professional Kansas City concert photographer squeal. More like a slightly feral teenage girl encountering a boy band in the wild. This was unexpected. She had arrived to photograph Kansas City rock ’n’ roll band Combo Diablo. Instead, before the band had played a single note, drummer Joe Gose was standing there wearing a doorway into the raccoon’s own live-music history. BEFORE THE DIGITAL EVIDENCE Many years ago—decades, even—before digital cameras allowed a raccoon to take 1,200 photographs and quiet...