For the longest time I had been on this terrible HUMP with the Dave Matthews Band. My first impression, upon hearing “Ants Marching” on the radio in 1995 or so in elementary school, was, This is one crazy Blues Traveler song (maybe better than “Run-Around” and inferior to “Hook”). Then came the gaggle of “What […]
Yesterday, a Friday, I found myself with a day off from work and a beautiful day, about 86 degrees, sunny and not too humid. I got a bunch of music listening done in early afternoon and then felt a little burned out on the projects I’d been working on, so it looked like it was […]
I just walked back home from work a second ago, a 20-minute walk. It’s 83 degrees out in Terre Haute, Indiana, at 10:20 p.m., plus humidity. Eight or so minutes into my walk, I come across the parking garage downtown. Fireworks start going off, into the air. This firebomb-like ball of blaze actually shoots downward, […]
Want to find a ’90s alternative band that will always be underrated and will never, ever, ever get enough credit for influencing the millennial landscape? Look no further than Soul Asylum, who started out in the ’80s in Minnesota as hardcore punk and by their ’92 hit single “Runaway Train” had fully paid their dues […]
Hopefully you all can read this and get a good message out of it. About a decade or so ago RCA reissued Lou Reed’s sixth solo studio album Coney Island Baby. Somehow, eventually, I got around to the Pitchfork review of it, which was glowing, and chanced upon the CD at the local store. Getting through […]
Califone became my favorite band in 2007 when I purchased the Roots & Crowns CD (which had come out in ’06) from the Luna that used to be on Mass Ave. in Indianapolis. At first, I found the music a little bit anticlimactic and soft, like all technical chops and no inspiration, or something thereabouts. […]
Danger Mouse is leaning back against a wall, sitting down, with no expression on his face. He’s got on an expensive-looking suit and a neatly trimmed beard. He sort of looks like a version of James Mercer, actually, whose eyes you never see. Next to him, Karen O sits, with hair primly styled and face […]
Spearheaded by what was actually a pretty entertaining set of interviews with Ed Kowalczyk and Gavin Rossdale seeing each frontman hone his chops at buttering the other up, LIVE and Bush have embarked on an American tour in Summer 2019 dubbed “Altimate.” To take in one chosen selection from Bush’s album Razorblade Suitcase, then, “Greedy […]
I’ve been through this a thousand times, it seems. I’ve listened to Nirvana’s music, heard raving discussions about them, heard opinions that they’re overrated or “overhyped,” but still today I can share even a b-side fossil like “Big Long Now” and have it play like a big, intimidating, forceful and epic grunge song. In many […]
As you might have noticed, the functioning of this site is based almost solely on my opinion of whether a given recording of music is good or not. Now, you might say, this is sort of a shallow, banal mission statement for an entire website to have (although obviously there have been others). And to […]