“DD Review: Jack White – Entering Heaven Alive.”
Score: 10/10 Here comes that new Jack White album, like a gossamer in the corner of your eye you dread for its certainty to distract you from your surrogate dog-like idee fixee to which you otherwise would be clinging. Remember folks, he dated Renee Zelwegger. That oughta make you feel better. There’s also the fact […]
“Dolby’s Top 10 Guitar Riffs of All Time”
10 Led Zeppelin – “How Many More Times” With this tune that closes Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut, part of the essence of this list is poised to value a riff’s overall function, like how spiritedly it’s embraced by the song itself. In this case, Page repeats this thing on pretty much the whole bumpy ride, […]
“On Pink Floyd, The Lumineers and the Sovereignty of Darkness”
The Lumineers are one of the bands that gets play on this one station my sous chef at work puts on. I usually say most of the music on this channel is like “dentist office music,” though much of it, I have to admit, is pretty decent “dentist office music.” The Lumineers would, no doubt, […]
“Socially Accepted Leisure through Pain”
There’s this bar that opened up not too long ago in Mishawaka, which I will render unnamed, hence keeping this article classified in a way that, if not ensuring my safety, might let me avoid a lot of annoying questions. By all accounts, it’s a nice place, and they offer an amazing 32 craft beer […]
“Is There a Better Summer Festival in America Than the Roots Picnic?”
Nine years and change ago, I’d just gotten fired from this job in Indiana, so I did what anyone would do: took a Greyhound bus to Philly for the Roots mural unveiling on Broad St., just south of downtown. Little did I know, there was this thing going on in town that weekend called Roots […]
“Dolby’s Top 10 Tracks Apr. – June 2022”
10 Gilad Hekselman – “Magic Chord” feat. Eric Harland Everything about the production on Far Star, the new album by Brooklyn jazz guitarist Gilad Hekselman, breathes fiery life into the listener’s ears. The drums, though played softly and heavily on the cymbals, are clear and robustly loud, with Hekselman’s chosen instrument of guitar within jazz […]
“Explication of a Funny but Troubling Phenomenon Surrounding Genre”
Out of respect for the artists, I’m going to withhold their names from this post. I did, though, hope to shine some light on a sort of amusing, yet obviously problematic, situation I encountered in my survey of the music on Bandcamp today. Basically, it’s divided up into the genre, for the most part, with […]