“Is ‘Junkies on a High’ a Sort of ‘Crossing of the Rubicon’ for Green Day?”
Sure, it was only a matter of time before my ephemeral inklings of describing Father of All… as a “classic” would be occluded by too many listens to, say, “Oh Yeah!” Obviously, now, you might say, it’s only one song and can throw off this freight train so far at max. Well, let’s just say […]
“For the 40th Time, We’re Babying Black People in This Country and it’s Not Good for Them or Anyone Else”
Oh, Christ. Somewhere in my history there’s probably a white smirk that set this all in motion. Sometime, in time immemorial, I looked away from another person based on the color of his skin, looked at the ground and relished the fact that I had the same skin and hair color as Jesus, or something […]
“That Rock Album Stole My (Other) Gal”
Something hit me the other night when I was driving home from work listening to Morphine’s album Cure for Pain. It happened, in particular, when Mark Sandman made reference to no less than his THIRD explicated woman within the same album (“Sheila”; to “Candy” and “Mary”) — that type of thing is really rare. It’s […]
“Rap in Summer 2020”
Yeah I went all psycho About the death of George Floyd A dude I’ve never met Between thousands of black crimes . Yeah I busted out windows in Target Everybody suckin’ up to Colin Kaepernick’s giant fro Yeah he got an endorsement with Nike . Poor guy How the hell’s he survivin’ . But I […]
“Fishing for My Long Lost Toots and the Maytals CD”
It’s with much likely humility that today we say goodbye to someone who was truly one of the galvinizing voices in authentic Jamaican reggae — Toots Hibbert, famed frontman of Toots and the Maytals. If Bob Marley and Peter Tosh are the Nirvana and Pearl Jam of founding reggae music, Toots and the Maytals stand […]
“DD Review: Throwing Muses – Sun Racket.”
Score: 7.5/10 Well, there’s certainly a lot to unpack in 2020 about the Throwing Muses, vaunted East Coast ’90s alt-rock crew who have now set in our piqued laps a new full-length effort entitled Sun Racket, their first new album in seven years. Just for normalcy’s sake, I’ll start with the title and cover, the […]
“Analyzing the Lyrics to ‘Immigrant Song’ by Led Zeppelin in All Their Seminal British Quirk”
“Immigrant Song,” the first tune on Led Zeppelin III, has one auspicious claim to fame of being the opener on the band’s wolverine live album, How the West Was Won. In addition, you’ll hear it snippeted in the Jack Black film School of Rock, in a scene when he’s sneaking the students for which he […]