Something happened in my mind the last time “Drain You” came on on my Dolby Radio shuffle. It was like it was a disease. I could HEAR the heroin coursing through those sound waves, through that studio production. Just to brief, real quick: popular rhetoric holds that Kurt Cobain started using around 1990 or so, […]

Now with this being said, my word association response to “1990s” wouldn’t be a word at all… well it would be a group of words, the “I know you better than you think” line in The Smashing Pumpkins’ song “1979.” But then this is I who used to sit smoking weed in my room in […]

So I had another dream about Max Collins of Eve 6 last night. He must have gone to some kind of seminar or something. I think I’d ended up in a fight with some douche bag who was probably like wearing a light-blue zip-down hoodie or something. Max Collins was friends with him and had […]

Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival April 13-22 Empire Polo Club Indio, California Lineup: 6lack/A Perfect Circle/AC Slater/Alan Walker/Alina Baraz/Alison Wonderland/Alt-J/Alvvays/Amine/Angel Olson/Aurora/Avalon Emerson/B Boys/Bane’s World/Barclay Crenshaw/Bedouin/Belly/Benjamin Booker/Benjamin Clementine/Beyonce/Big Thief/Black Coffee/Blackbear/Bleachers/Boogarins/Brockhampton/Buscabulla/Busy P/Borns/Cardi B/Carl Craig/Carpenter Brut/Cash Cash/Cherry Glazerr/Chloe x Halle/Chris Liebing/Chromeo/Cuco/Daniel Caesar/David Byrne/Declan McKenna/Dej Loaf/Deorro/Django Django/Dreams/Ekali/Elohim/Eminem/Fazerdaze/Fidlar/First Aid Kit/Flatbush Zombies/Fleet Foxes/French Montana/Giraffage/Greta Van Fleet/Haim/Hannah Wants/Hayley Kiyoko/Helado Negro/Highly Suspect/Hito/Hundred […]

Wow, I think this alt-J band would have reached so much more acclaim and popularity if they had just instituted a real drummer… I mean this programmed beat they have on the An Awesome Wave opener definitely isn’t very complex. It’s like something a little kid would do. Now, granted, the computer program and digital […]

There is something wrong with me. My mind is filled with silvery hatred. Apropos, we are currently wedged, not within any actual physical war of nationalism (and this could be significant to my discussion), but within a war on conventional music listening formats. The main assailant is Vinyl Me, Please, who, for people on Facebook […]

So I must have checked out this Who’s Next (Deluxe Edition) from the library on CD sometime in the past few years and gotten privy to a real gem as the disc two — a completely concert-recorded project known unofficially as “Young Vic Live,” but having never enjoyed its own proper release. Now, I’m really […]

Gather ‘round class, it’s time for music appreech-iATION! This means, yes, you have to be desperate enough to achieve good music that you can look past a band name like The Moistboyz or an album title like “Such Fun” (Annuals). Now, ideally the appreciation of music should be intuitive and not scientific, the latter of […]

Life will always be aesthetic. That’s just an unavoidable fact — it’s that way in nature even with the difference in the sexes. It is though when culture becomes aesthetic, or lacking in inner virtue, as it were, that I really get mad and feel that we’re living in dystopian times. Camille Paglia, in her […]

Whereas in the cocaine-fueled ’80s Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz laid down those charmingly juvenile and catchy grooves in the Tom Tom Club, it’s arguable at best as to whether David Byrne, in his own right, has ever really been a “pop artist” at any point. I think we’d all agree that the Talking Heads’ […]