Part of why I do this is that I can never agree with anyone on anything, particularly on music. But then, life is based on disagreement, in a sense. There’s competition in almost everything we do. And no, this particular foray of mine isn’t borne out of the will to compete, but it is somewhat […]
Wilco is a band that kind of snuck up on me, at first I think operating on a keen level of fragile emotion that failed to make an impression on my unseasoned, Goldfinger-favoring high school self. By the time I was in college, around 2004, they were sort of just unavoidable for the sheer clamor […]
If we’re learning one thing from this whole custody and legal battle between Josh Homme and the rest of his family (ex-wife Brody Dalle, daughter Camille and sons Wolf and Orrin), it’s that you should never underestimate the tendency in adults to act like children. At first, I felt incredibly bad for Homme, the lead […]
Just sitting and listening to my Pavement playlist last night, the thought was overwhelming in my head: nobody does song structure like these guys. It was like something that had existed in the back of my mind but had been buried by all of the putrid adherences to staunch formula we hear on the radio, […]
Score: 7.5/10 What is the purpose of “dream pop”? You might say, it’s not music for getting anything done to. It’s got no drive, no initiative, no ambition. Well, that is the exact point of the music, in a sense — it’s an escape into a realm that’s purely musical and not ambitious. Pittsburgh’s Flower […]
Oh, the guy with the acoustic guitar. He’s about as trite as it can get, theoretically: the heartbroken playboy with the ego outspanning his purported substantive muse, settling into tepid tempos and rhythms for a journey into his cask-like soul, so to speak. He’s INTIMATE. He doesn’t strive to be humorous or conceptual which, of […]