Ambushed in a sense by a low rating on Pitchfork, the Kings of Leon’s first album is a scrappy favorite of mine even more so as a result, a hulking cluster of this defiantly straight-ahead traditional rock and roll in songs that are layered, textural and structurally mature. I think I just got in the […]
Ok, time’s up. Looks like the verdict is in: and why wouldn’t the greatest song of all time come from Cleveland, the birthplace of Bone Thugs and Filter? Chapman came close to this level of perfection on “Fast Car,” which builds to a promising but slightly disappointing chorus, and “Revolution,” which is a da** good […]
Maybe I’m on one of my egotistical blogger rants right now but I really find this Ryan Adams news quite sad. I don’t know what to make of it. I’m not sure that is if I can continue listening to his music, music which was undeniably great on projects like Gold and most of the […]
I barely remembered to tune in to Saturday Night Live tonight, which had Don Cheadle (who’s in this movie Manic I really like) as the host and Gary Clark, Jr. as the musical guest. In total I think I caught Clark’s last song and about three skits or so, which I have to say weren’t […]
Score: 8.5/10 . Van Duren is a good band (apparently still together per the account on Bandcamp) and perhaps more than any other band in history, they’re good because they just get up and play and don’t let anything get in the way of the already established rock and roll forces around them. These forces […]
Nothing in this world is describable. How do I know? Because in the time it takes for you to execute the manifest act of describing something, whether your means are written or verbal, the world around you has continued to morph and change, even if only by modicum, minutia. People do really great things. I’ve […]
I suppose I shouldn’t complain as much as I do about all this ’90s jealousy I come across (most of which seems to emanate from Consequence of Sound in some fashion) since if you look you find out it started in, well, the ’90s. Specifically, the embryonic days of Pitchfork, which is generally a journal […]
Wow, I didn’t see this coming: for how bad this band pi**es me off sometimes, my DD rating of Why You So Crazy would be higher than the vast majority of others in the blogosphere. It turns out I guess that I just appreciate their weirdness, apparently, more than most others can — it’s that […]
Sub Pop is an alternative/indie rock record label located in Seattle, Washington, originally spawned in the 1980s out of the “Subterranean Pop” fanzine/record compilations that label founder Bruce Pavitt orchestrated prior. Well documented in the excellent grunge documentary Hype!, the Sub Pop label is auspicious for having housed Nirvana’s 1989 debut album Bleach, which of […]
Score: 8/10 . It seems like 2019 has been the blockbuster year of the rock so far (as would surely be evidenced by Sharon Van Etten’s new garb and look), so I was more than pleased to intake this new Toro y Moi effort, the work a beats producer out of Oakland. Well, get this […]