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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]