“Everything that happens in life is intrinsically like the person to whom it happens” – Point Counterpoint, Aldous Huxley Why do I feel like the ground is toppling out from under me? And why do I feel like there’s a motive for such a thing? Ok, I admit that I have started and stopped this […]
With certain bands, although I generally like their catalogue and think highly of what they did, I have a hard time developing one go-to album, or compilation, to put on to really scratch my itch. One of these would actually be The Who, which I believe to have made one classic album albeit one that’s […]
Sure, it’s hard to argue against the luminescent eliteness of Everything All the Time, the debut album by Band of Horses from 2006. Sonically, it set the tone with gorgeous, fruit-juicy guitars that provided a nice mix counterpart for Ben Bridwell’s soaring vocals that coincidentally seem to have a similarly celestial quality to Robin Pecknold […]
It’s certainly nice to have things kicking back up into full gear this year, as live concerts and festivals begin to commence for the summer. Also of note, though, might be the hard-won lesson from our friends Ween that this too is bound to lead to various frustrations and complications as “the going gets tough […]
Somewhere along the lines, some writer in L.A. missed the real beat. He was looking for the “new sound,” which by 1981, might have no longer been punk rock. He was high on Ludes. He was trying to impress that goth girl in the corner who was… high on Ludes. But the debut album by […]
*“You’re so misunderstood You’re so misunderstood” – Wilco .. It is with great satisfaction that I now recognize the 20th anniversary of Amnesiac, Radiohead’s fifth album. Discussing favorite albums by this band tends to be a pretty spicy enterprise, too — they differ strongly from Nirvana and Modest Mouse in that it’s almost impossible to […]
From the dry, arid and almost unlivable climes of Arizona can often come some pretty gorgeous and some especially melodically rich radio rock music. My personal favorite example of this would be the Meat Puppets and their bevy of catchy and texturally sound tracks they’ve lain down over the last 40 years. Another I believe […]
Now, by “canon” here, I of course mean a totality, or history — the genus within a particular art form which is streamlined to essential immortality. Deerhunter, judging by the bulbous length of the article on their second album, Cryptograms (2007), on Wikipedia, is a force in indie rock that gathers a pretty considerable amount […]