After weeks of waiting, nothing came. I’d been too busy and prone to spacing out for close to a month, or however long it’s been since Radiohead dropped its latest missive on us from on high, this time an amalgamation of 2000’s Kid A and 2001’s Amnesiac (delivered in brilliant portmanteau in the title), until […]
So is the 2000s the “golden era” of indie rock? It would seem almost like a foregone conclusion, with the cultural backwind of the war in Iraq and the blight of commercial substance creating the perfect conditions for an explosion of the underground. Spoon is right there at the very elite of this movement, then, […]
* “If your life is such a big joke Why should I care?” – Interpol .. We’ve come now to Thanksgiving and I’m feeling a great ease, with the outside conditions overcast but unseasonably pleasant. In my mind, I’m planning what booze to drink after a brief trip to my mom’s for dinner. I’ll be […]
They just kept coming, one by one, like votes for that presidential candidate you hate or candy corn at Halloween. Every Facebook page that chose to focus on Cream would share “Sunshine of Your Love.” It was as if every other song by the group had been banned by Big Brother, or Joe Rogan, or […]
Mr. Probz was all up in this music thing in the teens decade, taking over the world with the pliable, breezy radio hit “Waves,” and in general, keeping the press pretty piqued with the releases of all of his singles. One of these singles came as a collaboration with Dolly Parton, 2019’s “Faith,” the last […]
25 “We Can Be Together” (Volunteers) 1969’s Volunteers is a significant album in the Jefferson Airplane history for, primarily, being their most politically subversive statement, at least explicitly, and also, marking the last band project that guitarist/singer Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden would partake in. Perhaps appropriately, it’s a confusing hodgepodge of stylistic array […]
So is some famous band going to come in sometime in the near future and “save rock and roll” with a new album? It’s probably not bloody likely, seeing as we treat our messiahs, or anyone with a genuine vision, at that, like lepers, browbeating and condescending entities like “indie rock” into non-existence and living […]