“A Fatal, Beautiful Concern”
Who is the Eagles song “Those Shoes” about? That girl in the Progressive commercial, without any question, with that insurance agent taking advantage of her, mooching a ride, eating barbecue wings in the car and picking up all that crappy firewood and putting it in the back, all before the girl realizes that there’s a […]
“Dolby’s Top 100 Indie Rock Albums of All Time”
Is indie rock dead? Well, all music is dead, so it would stand to reason as much, wouldn’t it? And I can almost hear the breaths of relief spurting from millions of social climbers the nation over, who can now go back to the simple life of subservience to pretty much everything, who will never […]
“Were We All Just Brainwashed into Thinking Jay-Z’s Black Album Was Good?”
Before I get into the nuts and bolts of this certainly disturbing and also kind of hilarious inquiry, let’s just throw a few ideas out about what kind of rapper Jay-Z is. Well, for one thing, he’s good. He’s got undeniable skill on the mic, dubbed a “New York talker” by somebody in the business […]
“Entertaining the Previously Unthinkable Proposition That Mike Einziger is the Best Guitarist of the 1990s”
I remember it clear as day: I was sitting in my Freshman year high school Spanish class in probably the winter or spring of 1999. A friend and I got into a discussion about what the best decades of the 20th century were in music and we both agreed that the best was the ’60s […]
“DD Review: Dinosaur Jr. – Sweep it into Space.”
Score: 7/10 It’s funny how true to their names the last two Dinosaur Jr. albums have been. I Bet on Sky was distant and trippy. Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not had one good song and then the rest of it sucked, hence embodying a true materialization of self after a glimpse of something […]
“Uncovering What Should Have Been a Glaring Warning Sign in Sublime, Second-Hand Smoke.”
Somewhere along the lines of Mumford & Sons being passed off as great rock music, I think we all gravitated to the inevitable conclusion that Sublime was really a pretty bit**in’ band, by comparison with most others. To me, the song “Wrong Way” is such an ingenious swatch of lyrics because any other doofus would […]