I’m sorry, Miss Swift, for your astronomical ebb in level of attractiveness. Certainly, it’s hard to believe you’re the same person who once sang, with the utmost confidence and vitriolic fervor, “We are never ever ever / Getting baaaack togetherrrrrr!” (Of course, it’s equally hard to believe you’d completely abandon country music, your initial meal […]
The purpose of this post is to spotlight Eve 6 lead singer Max Collins and the unique contributions he’s made to the alternative rock world. True, in general, Eve 6 is very well received, by the listening public, if not necessarily the critics, and “Inside out” is pretty much everyone but the Scrooge’s favorite song. […]
The message came in from the White House, which, of course, had fully begun living up to Frank Zappa’s label of “The entertainment sector of the military-industrial complex.” Funding was being cut to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the non-profit assigned with funding PBS and NPR. The budget cuts, which came by of a mid-fiscal-year […]
It seems like “Saints” was just doomed from the start, more or less. On one hand, it’s almost impossible to imagine the ruling male radio industry gentry allowing a girl band to skyrocket into the stratosphere of pop stardom the way Nirvana and the Pumpkins did. “Saints” is a good enough song to get that […]
I’m actually not going to analyze “Crazy”; the chart-topping 2006 radio hit from Gnarls Barkley, on a musical level, in this post. If I were, gee, that would be a challenge, since it’s not every day you come across a song that lacks even a single phrasing unorthodoxy or solitary creative flare, in terms of […]
I’d like to preface this post by voicing adamant praise of the 2020 album Inlet by mid-’90s Champaign, Ill. alt-rockers Hum. I loved what they did with maintaining their boisterous, distorted grunge sound and validating it with some stretching out of the song lengths into the seven/eight minute territory. In addition, Matt Talbott’s seemed as […]
I don’t think there’s any question: no band is selling more shirts these days than Nirvana. Now, I’m not going to attempt to explain this phenomenon, least of all to imply that bands should expect 33-year delays, or time-releases, for gluts in their merch sales. Suffice it to say that a litany of people are […]
You are dressed in a shirt with the font of the Nirvana smiley-face logo. The writing on the shirt, however, reads “Pac-Man.” Apparently, you found this shirt at Spencer’s, and paid about $25 for it, because you identified with the subversive message implicit in the mocking of Nirvana’s apparrel. You just never GOT Nirvana. They […]
I can’t see the ’90s but I can HEAR them. Sure, they’re long-gone. I know. Nobody says “Pimpin’ ain’t easy” these days, much to the relief of all of us. We know longer must endure pervy, delusional commentary from Adam Corolla or tongue-in-cheek sports analysis from quirky Sports Center anchors. But I can FEEL the […]
Just as bands can be guilty of falling into a “style over substance” mindset administrative to their creative outputs, such can critics, as well, overemphasize a band’s “style” as a potential pitfall, and ignore emotional authenticity, poesy of lyrics, brilliance in song structuring, and, of course, good ol’ fashioned undeniable energy. Now, granted, the Chili […]