To be honest, I had this post stewing for a little while and didn’t finish it… Jimi Hendrix is exceptionally hard to write about… well today is the 50th anniversary of his final album with the Experience, Electric Ladyland, so the least I could do is pay some respects. One thing of absolute impossibility to […]
“Dirt” by Phish is not, by any stretch, a perfect song. In fact, it’s got this guitar intro that’s so defiantly, fiercely conventional, calling more to mind Incubus’ “Drive” than any artistic construction which would shoulder up with Frank Zappa or Bela Fleck, two of Trey Anastasio’s likely idols, that for a while I hated […]
This post is meant to move toward explaining an implicit statement I made in my last Cat Power review that there was a lot of “interchangeable political bullsh**” going on, which is admittedly a very vague plaint, if not downright grammatically and semantically incorrect. Literally, though, I’m nauseated. Everything is so flavor-of-the-week these days. We […]
I really don’t pay too much attention to anything, if I can avoid it, although this particular year in music has been mighty fine in revamping my mental infrastructure in terms of what genre can be, how each one can distinguish itself. Far being it for The New Yorker to divorce politics and music, […]
If you’re ever in the library looking to stuff yourself with words like a smarty pants, you could certainly do worse than LZ ’75, Stephen Davis’ firsthand account of tracing his controversial Zeppelin fandom as a Detroiter from the band’s hatching to the year 1975, which saw the release of their double album. One reason […]
I just got a nice little anecdote on Facebook yesterday that we’ve come now to the 20th anniv. of Mezzanine, all the more commendable for benchmarking a reissue that isn’t VINYL. The exact reasons why I disdain the vending of vinyl records these days are many, some of which include the facts that the most […]
Something certainly wasn’t adding up to me, so I decided to actually peruse this Hole article on RS’s FB feed, and sure enough, there it was toward the bottom: “For Hole’s power pop turn, she looked to her number one frenemy, Billy Corgan, as co-writer and producer.” That’s right folks: Corgan is Love’s friend because […]
Does anybody REMEMBER the ’90s? Like really remember them? Was it really all “rolling with the homies” and “pink like a Deco umbrella”, whatever the he** a “Deco umbrella” is? No… it was record gun violence to date surfacing in 1990, it was sadistic TV figures making fun of Nancy Kerrigan for how she wailed after […]
Where is the original center of disaffection? Something tells me it lies in San Francisco… that Green Day rock opera American Idiot is just too weird, with all those subplots and fictional characters and “10 cups of coffee in the underbelly” and of course suicide. Disaffection, for anybody fortunately ill-versed in such things, is the […]
Despite the fact that MTV hasn’t regularly played music videos for nigh on 20 years (we’re talking taking it back to Third Eye Blind and Len here), they still hold the “VMA’s” every year, which stands for “Video Music Awards,” as well as even the “EMA’s,” in November, the “European Music Awards” (which may very […]