Big Dipper disc gets some shine

If you were an Embarrassment fan, you probably followed Bill Goffrier's next project, Big Dipper. Merge Records just released the three-disc "Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology." Here's the 1,000-word Pitchfork review, which doesn't mention Goffrier even once.  Here's an 18-year-old preview from The New York Times that does. She gets it right: I saw them on that tour at the old 9:30 Club in D.C. -- right before Nirvana and the grunge tsunami altered their universe. Above: "Faith Healer." Or sample more here.