Score: 8/10 . There’s this one video documentary on Wesley Willis, the schizophrenic gag-songwriter from Chicago, where, amongst discourses about “rock and roll McDonald’s” and oral bestiality, he expounds on the importance of every song being exactly two minutes and 50 seconds in length. I’m not sure if it’s just an eerie coincidence or not, […]
Score: 8.5/10 . So am I to understand this right, Tim Kasher of Cursive is really not Connor Oberst? Could somebody scientifically ascertain this for me, please? I mean, they sound exactly alike, and they’re both from Omaha, Nebraska and are or have been on Omaha’s Saddle Creek Records. Well, from the sheer BITE of […]
Score: 0.5/10 . Four score and seven years ago, we first heard of this band Greta Van Fleet, and have been waiting for their album to come out ever since. One of these decades, slavery is gonna come back, too. I’m gonna see to it. Over the last few (lots of) months, then, I’ve heard […]
To be honest, I had this post stewing for a little while and didn’t finish it… Jimi Hendrix is exceptionally hard to write about… well today is the 50th anniversary of his final album with the Experience, Electric Ladyland, so the least I could do is pay some respects. One thing of absolute impossibility to […]
Spotify playlist. Buck Mulligan. .
Score: 8.5/10 . Something hit me about five days ago reading the new Jorma Kaukonen book. God da**. Rock stars’ lives just aren’t that INTERESTING. But just on the hypothetical that there WERE any derived value of doing interviews with bands, I could see some really enchanting diatribe emanating from San Francisco’s The Dodos, who […]
“Dirt” by Phish is not, by any stretch, a perfect song. In fact, it’s got this guitar intro that’s so defiantly, fiercely conventional, calling more to mind Incubus’ “Drive” than any artistic construction which would shoulder up with Frank Zappa or Bela Fleck, two of Trey Anastasio’s likely idols, that for a while I hated […]
Score: 7.5/10 . I feel a little weird scoring Echo & the Bunnymen, since obviously, their reputation precedes them: they’re complete indie rock legends, covered by Pavement and grossly underrated all these years I believe, as I’ve always vastly preferred them to their counterparts Joy Division. Appropriately enough, 2009’s romping classic The Fountain went criminally […]
Score: 9/10 . There’s always a point in the year around now where I literally just get sick thinking of all the new music there is out there and how much mental and emotional investment it takes to listen to it all and decide with any power at all whether it has any lasting value. […]
This post is meant to move toward explaining an implicit statement I made in my last Cat Power review that there was a lot of “interchangeable political bullsh**” going on, which is admittedly a very vague plaint, if not downright grammatically and semantically incorrect. Literally, though, I’m nauseated. Everything is so flavor-of-the-week these days. We […]