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 […]
I shouldn’t have shared that Brett Favre Wrangler Jeans commercial on Facebook… I’m so stupid! Oh, hey. There you are. Yeah, this post is just about Wrangler jeans, pretty much. It all started when I scored these early ’90s black jeans at Goodwill. Pretty stupid. ‘Bout three bucks. I call ’em my Lenny Kravitz jeans. […]
When you think of Jefferson Airplane, it’s almost inconceivable that your thoughts wouldn’t be auspicious. They bulwarked some of the most famous songs and ideas in rock and roll from the ’60s, including the open embrace in the “summer of love” of finding “somebody to love” and “feed(ing) your head,” or always being opened minded, […]
To be honest I don’t know WHAT the heck would have happened to me last year that I would have missed note of this new Paul Mccartney album of last year. It must have been a lot of whisky sours or something. Either way, upon announcement of an imminent reissue coming up these months, I’ve […]
“In 1967, rock ‘n’ roll was flourishing, the hippie movement was happening and pop sensations (such as the Beatles) had gone from being perceived as heartthrobs to experimental artists.” – UCR .. Now, it almost seems funny to me, a Beatles fan, that Ultimate Classic Rock would phrase it as “pop sensations… such as the […]