Score: 10/10 . “Here lies a genius. Keep the fu**Ing noise down” – Noel Gallagher “Gimme the mic bit** / I wanna be Sheezus” – Lily Allen .. I have a funny story. It was my junior year in high school and I made the decision to become a Christian. I would have […]
Score: 6/10 . * A black hole is defined by Wikipedia as “a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that nothing–not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light–can escape from inside it.” It is the theory of some scientists that we could one day enter one, given Earth’s travel through space, […]
Score: 7.5/10 . There’s plenty going on conceptually with The Suede Puppies, I think, like a situation where they’re constantly having to answer questions about what kind of band they are while simultaneously projecting whatever genuine artistic visions they actually have. At the end of the day, I think, the question of what kind of […]
Score: 9/10 . Style is a funny thing. No, check that. T-Rextasy is a funny thing. There, that’s more like it. Don’t believe me? Let’s go to track three “Girl, Friend,” which could easily bass for a song by Belly. Basically Lyris Faron is telling a story on vocals about wanting to have a female […]
One thing is sure, anyway: the votes are still coming in on Pearl Jam. The Nirvana biography, appropriately enough, can provide an apt examination of this development, with its author Everett True basically in accordance with Kurt Cobain’s assessment of them as a “real commercial rock band,” and with the reference to the Beavis & Butthead […]
Score: 6/10 . It’s been a big week for our friends down in New Zealand. After the college football national championship game, winning Clemson coach Dabo Sweeney revealed an interesting source of inspiration he uses in locker room presentations: the “All Blacks” New Zealand rugby team. Then comes this Pickle Darling scoundrel and his new […]
Score: 7.5/10 . Like the more party-oriented Snowgoons, Spectacular Diagnostics are a production team out of Germany which puts together boom-bap LP’s employing mostly black American rappers to wreck shop on the tracks. Raw Studies, to its credit, feels just that — nothing is overproduced, rather favoring eerie, tense and jazzy MF Doom-like beats (these […]
Say what you want. There is such a thing as putting on a CD at 11 am when you get up, sitting back with some coffee, sinking into the music, forgetting about all your bothers and just feeling great. There is such a thing as musical rapture. I used to know it in the form […]
– Drummer Larry Gorman was fired in October 2006. – Gorman was replaced by “New York hardcore veteran Sammy Siegler” in August 2007, according to Wikipedia. – Wikipedia reports that “Head Automatica started pre-production on their third album in late September 2007, aiming for a ‘darker’ sound and ‘grimy, dancefloor-friendly songs.’” This very […]
Astonished is what I was to get through all of the Aerosmith guitarist’s healthy slab of blues-rock, which surprisingly encompasses his fourth solo album in addition to four with The Joe Perry Project, only to find this hypnotic yet cathartic gem buried toward the end. It just sort of crept up on me that Joe […]