Dolby Disaster

Sometimes the inmates run the asylum and it’s just amazing to me that Stone Temple Pilots’ “Lady Picture Show” never became a defining anthem of American society. The song is absolutely, terrifically great, with a series of elaborate, responsive melodies governing the verse, and a brilliant, awesomely pliable chorus that pares itself down to a […]

I was a pretty big TV junkie in the ’90s and one of the shows I’d catch, sometimes, was called Blossom. The reason I mention this show, which was generally a pretty critically acclaimed sit com conceived in the spirit of The Brady Bunch but more raunch, is that, in one of the episodes, one […]

I live in Indiana and so as a result, come across a pretty pungent amount of country music. Growing up, I definitely held country as just about my least-favorite genre and really, it would be still, today, if not for the scourge of maniacally self-centered new rap music that’s come out in the last 10 […]

I’m really not sure why but for some reason I seem to have this strange fixation on tempo when I think about Third Eye Blind’s music. For anyone unfamiliar, Third Eye Blind is an alternative rock band that formed in the mid-’90s in San Francisco and hit it big with their 1997 eponymous debut album […]

It’s really not pride, I don’t think, that brews in me all this compunction about how Spotify just keeps playing random music after your album is over. I mean, chances are, they’re not going to uncover anything as good as what you’d selected for your purposeful listen, right? Well, some time last week after having […]

Score: 7/10 In a battle of elite titans, “A Bit of Previous” might take the crown for stupidest Belle and Sebastian album title in their catalogue. It also, though, luckily, proves that this distinction isn’t inversely proportional to the album’s quality, as all of these songs seep out of the speakers with purpose, originality and […]

It’s all pretty much a blur of profanity, sports, disrespect, horniness, shrooms, Eminem, Everclear and jungle juice, but at some point in high school, Nirvana became my favorite band. All of a sudden, then, I was 22, singing “Lithium” to myself on a bus in Colorado and having a cute 17-year-old chick smile at me […]