*“If you lookin’ for some hot sh## I got that Hardcore I refuse to make a pop track These rappers frontin’ like they hard But they not that I get it goin’ All I need is a boom bap” – The Highest Low .. I offer this quote from Chicago underground duo The Highest Low […]
Oh, well, I forgot, that great Nacho Libre in the corporate America sky said we weren’t supposed to like indie rock anymore last decade. How high did you want me to jump again, sir? Well, in the event that there are still any independently thinking people left on the planet, I’ve decided to initiate this […]
Just last night I was cruising home from work, an act which I usually meet with silence or the classical station. For some reason the classical DJ’s seemed a little off as of late — issuing these real somber dirges during snow storms (an event of plentiful beauty, as many know), so I thought I’d […]
The Foo Fighters, according to Stereogum, performed their song “Times Like These” for the recent Joe Biden inauguration concert that also included Bruce Springsteen and Lady Gaga… yes, that Lady Gaga. This is a fact immediately depressing, on one hand, seeing as the song came out about 16 years ago or so, its selection also […]
Just yesterday I heard on the radio this speech by Martin Luther King. I’d never even known he’d been stabbed at age 29 in an attempted assassination. By and large, too, I’ve been thinking about my propsective livelihoods (I was once an aspiring teacher but now a line cook and aspiring Sous Chef). None of […]
Anybody who reads my site knows I’m like that one person who’s heard The Hives’ album from 2012 Lex Hives and that I take any opportunity I can to assure people that it’s not a heaping pile of dog sh** — the opinion which would apparently be furnished by some culturally propelled parties to whom […]
It is of course with tongue placed firmly within metaphysical cheek that I deliver this “year-end award,” seeing as I’ve been running this site for nine years now and never do such awards, and probably won’t next year. But Blaque Dynamite, the on-stage moniker of LA jazz drummer Mike Mitchell, just seemed to come like […]
Driving home from the library earlier, I started thinking about the song “Into the Woods,” which is on My Morning Jacket’s breakout album from 2005, Z. I was thinking, What a stupid song. Jim James sings “A good showerhead / And my right hand / Are the two best lovers / That I ever had […]
I knew it was a bad idea from the start. But it’s a bad idea that’s really a good idea too: like trying to say hi to that 12-year-old kid next door who’s obviously envisioning killing you in a video game and making “Pow” sounds looking at your face. But I tried to find a […]