It’s amazing what you can find on Spotify just by clicking on a band’s discography and scrolling. Just last week I came upon The Fly Record Live from one of my favorite late-’90s alt-rock outfits, Eve 6. Generally, I found the whole delivery and production pretty digestible and rocking — still, I don’t get the […]
Circa 2003, you could find me in poorly lit, beer-swathed dens and taverns, talking about music… endlessly. The Strokes were pretty much on top of the world — I was in the midst of my trifecta of Strokes concerts I’d see in my life, having caught the Chicago one and yet to come upon the […]
Pearl Jam is an impossible entity to figure out, I’m convinced, and that’s why they’ll always be a vital mainstay of alternative rock, as well as the overall historical canon. They’re composed of numerous gifted songwriters, from Jeff Ament (“Nothing as it Seems”) to Eddie Vedder (“Off He Goes”) to the terrible twosome of Gossard […]
It’s been a couple years but just today I saw another post worshipping this “27 Club,” which includes Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. All of these figures died at the age of 27, hence their membership in this club. This prestigious “club” is something that’s gotten a lot of attention within […]
Now, this post is not about The Lumineers, although, really, it might as well be. Like Ireland’s Hozier, American band The Lumineers is making a pretty decent name for themselves these days by, basically, singing about women. They sing about women A LOT. Asking them sing about anything else would be like asking a gecko […]
I’m listening to a Spotify playlist at home, in the evening after work, with a college basketball game on the TV, on mute. My song ends and for a couple of seconds, I hear my roommate’s TV in the background, the room over. And I start to sit back and think about things. I start […]
What comes to mind when you think of the biggest, most meaningful moments in music history? Bob Dylan plugging in at Newport in 1965 and the release of “Rapper’s Delight” might be a couple. But come on, nothing could top Woodstock, the 1969 festival that housed, per report, half a million people at one venue, […]
Once upon a time, in a far, far off land, blokes used to come together and make noise using only guitar, drums and vocals, pouring their hearts out on the microphone, to audiences worldwide. Actually, that does sound kind of eccentric, when you think about it. Oxford’s Supergrass were public enemy number one when it […]